{"id":196,"date":"2017-11-27T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antonyhallphd.wordpress.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-06-10T06:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:23:59","slug":"what-is-somaethetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/what-is-somaethetics\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Somaesthetics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The work of\u00a0\u00a0Olafur Eliasson and Carsten H\u00f6ller are prime examples of artists working with perceptual systems in which the viewers\u00a0become active participants. This could be called &#8216;Perceptual Art&#8217; but this term is not widely used, and it has been in a limited\u00a0sense\u00a0referring to artwork\u00a0using optical illusion. In light of this, searching for an umbrella term for artwork that uses experiential and multisensory elements, I stumbled across\u00a0the term &#8216;Somaesthetics&#8217; &#8220;an interdisciplinary field whose roots are in philosophical theory, somaesthetics offers an integrative conceptual framework and a menu of methodologies not only for better understanding our somatic experience but also for improving the quality of our bodily perception, performance, and presentation &#8221; [1]<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>first coined by Richard Shusterman in 1996 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is also a journal dedicated to research that \u201cadvances the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, understood as the critical study and meliorative cultivation of the experience and performance of the living body (or soma) as a site of sensory appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-stylization\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aau.dk\/index.php\/JOS\/index\">https:\/\/journals.aau.dk\/index.php\/JOS\/index<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n[1] The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction https:\/\/www.interaction-design.org\/literature\/book\/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed\/somaesthetics#heading_Genealogy_and_Emergence_page_107797]\n<p>More reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Art and Embodiment: Biological and Phenomenological Contributions to Understanding Beauty and the Aesthetic&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;In recent years this attitude to the relation between art, the senses, and the body has undergone significant changes. Many of those changes have been informed by recent developments in cognitive science and evolutionary\u00a0 psychology&#8221;\u00a0http:\/\/www.contempaesthetics.org\/newvolume\/pages\/article.php?articleID=291<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting reflections on\u00a0Somaesthetics&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/embodimentblog.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/25\/what-is-somaesthetics\/\">What is Somaesthetics?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of\u00a0\u00a0Olafur Eliasson and Carsten H\u00f6ller are prime examples of artists working with perceptual systems in which the viewers\u00a0become active participants. This could be called &#8216;Perceptual Art&#8217; but this term is not widely used, and it has been in a limited\u00a0sense\u00a0referring to artwork\u00a0using optical illusion. In light of this, searching for an umbrella term&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[240],"tags":[6,20,72,73,75,81,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}