Faculty Member, Department for Northern Culture and Linguistics
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Aesthetics and Visual Communications in Modern Media
Thesis Title: Forms of Fascination
About
My research, my books, articles, exhibitions, tv-programs, and interviews have been and are still centered around two key terms, fascination and affect, to put it briefly in modern media and especially the visual aspects of these terms in the new media. I work with a perceptual or sensoric image conception, which indicates that everything has its fundament in visualization; the letters and words I write here, the images the music in my room creates, the images the smooth surface of the table brings along and the sight the clouds on the sky outside my windows, etc.
The fascination and affect belongs to the phenomenons in the outside world, and to our inner world. We create images of the meeting between the external and internal world. Out of this meeting we establish 'n-beteween-images'. A thing, a phenomenon, is never just a thing, but it is something we always relate and interact mentally with through different forms of fascination and affect. A thing is never indeferrent, but is constantly perceived with affect.
From these meetings with our internal images and the external perceptions, we create subjectively our own perceptual world - as it most obvious in memory, visions and dreams - and pass it on intersubjectively to others such as in pictures, stories, theories, science, gossip, media, rites, gestures...
Contact Information
http://cemes.ku.dk/bent_fausing; http://inss.ku.dk/ansatte/beskrivelse/?id=48776
INSS
University of Copenhagen
Søndre Campus/KUA
Njalsgade 120
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
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