Trench Gothic: The Computer Visualisation of a Disturbing Great WarArtwork

Abstract

Aesthetic theory has traditionally struggled to explain the interplay of hand, intellect, and emotion in the communicative exchanged between artist and audience. Nowhere is this problem more troublesome than with disturbing art, where the artist makes us think by firstly making us feel uncomfortable. War art is quintessentially intended to disturb, and yet for some reason has been less well studied than war poetry. As we approach the Centenary of the First World War this paper considers how the first-hand experience of the horrors of war becomes vicarious experience through the medium of distrubing art. Data is presented from a slow-motion computer visualisation of how affect (feeling) and cognition (knowing) interact in delivering an intended artistic message, and suggestions are made as to how a better theory of emotional cognition might be the computer artists of the future.

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Derek J. Smith

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Publication date: July 2014

Publication date (Print): July 2014

Pages: 129-130

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2014.32

Copyright statement: © Derek J. Smith. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014), London, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 8 - 10 July 2014

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing