Digital art and everyday performance reshape how we understand human emotion
A new study argues that artistic performances and digital interactions create "affective choreographies"—patterns that rewire how emotions, bodies, and data interact in real time. For tech companies, cultural institutions, and policymakers designing digital experiences, this framework offers a fresh lens on why online spaces feel so emotionally engaging.
Originaltitel: Affective Choreographies
<p>Affective choreographies are produced by artistic performances and performances of daily lives, particularly within digital cultures. They integrate the intensive forces of affect with a choreographic sensibility of bodies, structures, data, environment, and emotions being constantly reconfigured. They are accessed and composed by means of phenomenological reflection and provoke a reconsideration of what constitutes a body. The mixed reality artwork CATALYSTS — Somatic Resonance is one example.</p>