1. Technologies of Representation Ls9 Mirror Neurons April 2015 Digital Media Program, University of Lower Silesia Dr. Krystina Madej School of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Emotion ‘The painting will move the soul of the beholder when the people painted there each clearly shows the movement of his own soul...we weep with the weeping, laugh with the laughing, and grieve with the grieving. These movements of the soul are known from the movements of the body.’ Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) Renaissance humanist and polymath

3. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response

4. Emotions Effectiveness of Images to affect us History Culture Immediate Context

5. Emotions Effectiveness of Images to affect us History Culture Immediate Context and Neural Process

6. Emotions Empathetic Response Embodied Simulation Human capacity to empathize with others’ behaviors and experiences i.e. to pre-rationally make sense of the actions, emotions and sensations of others What human’s see activates their own internal representation of the body state seen

7. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Human response to art is not purely introspective intuitive metaphysical It is based in physical changes in the brain.

8. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Mirror Neurons Feeling of physical reaction to the perception of movement in works of art to the perception of the implied movement

9. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Mirror Neurons Underpin action understanding and intentions that underlie action

10. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Observing manipulable objects like tools leads to the activation of motor regions of the brain that control our interactions with the same object – not just the region of the brain associated with representation.

11. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Humans’ recognize emotions displayed by others, their facial muscles respond in kind.

12. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response The brain reacts so as to assume the same state they would have had if engaged in the same actions

13. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response When we see two objects touching our somatosensory cortices are activated as if our body were subject to tactile stimulation

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18. Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Our brains can reconstruct actions by merely observing the static graphic outcome of the agent’s past action.

19. Emotions Effectiveness of Images: Empathetic Response Our brains can reconstruct actions by merely observing the static graphic outcome of the agent’s past action. Observers experience a sense of bodily involvement with the movemnts that are implied by physical traces of creative action.

20. Emotions Empathetic feel can no longer be regarded as a matter of simple intuition and can be precisely located in the relevant areas of the brain that are activated both in the observed and the observer.

21. Emotions https://emotioninart.wordpress.com Antiquity

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35. Emotions XV Century

36. Emotions XIX Century Edvard Munch, 1893 The Scream

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38. Emotions XX Century Dorothea Lange, 1936 Migrant Mother

39. Emotions XX Century Barry, Godber, 1969 In the court of the Crimson King Roy Lichtenstein, 1964 The Kiss

40. Emotions Contemporary

41. Emotions Contemporary :-) Sept. 19, 1982, 11:44 a.m. Computer scientist Scott Fahlman suggested using :-) to indicate posts not meant to be taken seriously.

42. Emotion We generally vastly overrate the amount of information we process. Gombrich p. 301

43. Emotions 1.“Our capacity to pre-rationally make sense of the actions, emotions and sensations of others depends on embodied simulation. 2.“… brain imaging experiments in humans have shown that observation of manipulable objects like tools…. Leads to the activation of … a cortical region that is normally considered to be involved in the control of action and not in the representation of objects. 3.“…electromyographic responses in the facial muscles of observers are congruent with those involved in the observed person’s facial expressions.” Discuss in context of the images we have seen. Use examples to show us what these statements mean.