Hello there

I'd be interested to know more about what draws you to this subject.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'feelings' and it would interesting to know more. 

I'm a sound artist and engineer and have devised a couple of projects that I think are in the area you describe. One is Infrasonic - a live concert in which a group of us tried to influence people's emotions by lacing a live music performance with extreme bass sound. Infrasonic (aka Soundless Music) inspired a whole raft of other enquiries into this area. It seems to be a topic of ongoing interest to scientists and sound artists alike. The other, still in development, is an installation I'm building, in which I try to create haptic illusions by manipulating the dynamics of a sound - people who experience this work may think they are touching something that they are not.  You can think of it as an art piece - but the ideas stem from some of my own research in the field of enactive perception. Here, I'm using current ideas in science to create sensations, rather than emotions. 

The first was funded by the Sciart Consortium, the latter is entirely self-funded and looking for funding (this is a shameless advertisement). 

If you want to know more, do get in touch off-list.

Bye

Sarah

Sarah Angliss
www.spacedog.biz
01273 698809

On 22 Jan 2007, at 13:02, Total_incognito wrote:

Dear All,
 
I'm looking for information regarding the use of science by artists in their work. However, I understand there are many artists who use science to experiment with new types of media, whereas I'm looking for artists who use their work either to measure changes in emotions (i.e. measuring the use of certain colours, sounds or forms to elicit emotions) or have used/use scientific evidence to construct art forms with the aim of influencing feelings (whether positive i.e. happiness or negative i.e. sadness).
 
Does anyone know of artists (of any form such as musicians as well) that are using science in this manner to create art?
 
Many thanks,
 
Cato
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