일시: 2026년 3월 16일 (월) 15:00-17:00
장소: 과학도서관 611호 </aside>
연사: Claus-Christian Carbon
Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany Research Group EPÆG (Ergonomics, Psychological Æsthetics, Gestalt), Bamberg, Germany Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences (BaGrACS), Bamberg, Germany
Biography
Claus-Christian Carbon (CCC) studied Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), followed by Philosophy (M.A.), both at the University of Trier, Germany. After receiving his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and his “Habilitation” at the University of Vienna, Austria, he worked at the University of Technology Delft, Netherlands and the University of Bamberg, Germany, where he currently holds a full professorship leading the Department of General Psychology and Methodology and the “Forschungsgruppe EPAEG”—a research group devoted to enhancing the knowledge, methodology and enthusiasm in the fields of cognitive ergonomics, psychological aesthetics and Gestalt (see www.experimental-psychology.com and www.epaeg.de for more details). CCC is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Art & Perception, and an Associate Editor of Perception, i-Perception, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal of Perceptual Imaging and Advances in Cognitive Psychology. Since 2023, CCC is an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Title
Experiencing art: How we could progress in Empirical Aesthetics, how to develop a Psychology of Art
Abstract
Art is a constant companion through the millennia, independent of cultural embedding, zeitgeist, and civilizational development. Art is much more than the artwork itself, as art is context-, meaning-, and situation-dependent; the artwork truly emerges only through a specific mode of experiencing art that is fundamentally different from everyday modes of perception. When we encounter art, we do not simply see, hear, or read—we engage in a form of perception that is exploratory, reflective, and meaning-seeking. This makes the experience of art a particularly rich domain for understanding the mechanisms and limits of human perception. This talk on “Experiencing Art” will highlight how surprisingly ill-defined many current approaches to understanding art‘s experience still are. Despite the central role of perception in encounters with artworks, research traditions in art and perception have often evolved in parallel rather than in a true dialogue. Bridging this gap is crucial: only by connecting artistic practice and aesthetic theory with empirical research on perception can we gain deeper insights into how artworks shape, guide, and transform our perceptual processes. The talk will therefore argue that the psychology of art must be grounded in a stronger integration of art and perception research. By examining how artworks modulate attention, expectation, ambiguity, and meaning construction, we can better understand not only why art affects us so profoundly but also what it reveals about the functioning of the human mind. Developing such a dialogue between art and perception will open new perspectives on the study of aesthetic experience and inspire more precise, experimentally informed approaches to one of the most fundamental questions in the psychology of art: how humans experience art.