2/5/2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Grand Peninsula B

Transcending the everyday: The holistic and multisensory essence of aesthetic experiences

Author(s)

Sadia Sadia | RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

Abstract

[Aesthetic Experiences] Sadia Sadia is an artist practitioner, basing her investigations in practice-based and practice-led research into encompassing environments. She proposes that there is the potential to configure technology to heighten profound experiences with art, which may be cathartic, epiphanic, transcendental or conversion, but which are innate and universal. Her research draws on cognitive and perceptual psychology and neuroaesthetics and goes to the heart of how the encompassing environment in art may be modelled to initiate such experiences. Sadia will discuss how she employs these methodologies and strategies in her own work, which frequently includes the distortion or manipulation of time and the use of surrounded audio and sound in a multiplicity of configurations including Atmos.