The Expanded Mind-Body: Materialized Thinking Processes in Art Making

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870204
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art; Art at large
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: HIRAKURA Kei 横浜国立大学, 大学院都市イノベーション研究院, 准教授 (90554452)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 拡張された心 / エージェンシー / 異種混淆的集合体 / 芸術制作 / プロセス / パブロ・ピカソ / ロバート・スミッソン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to investigate the embodied logic of artistic creation which works through materials, outside the artist's biological body. Based on the philosophical theory of "expanded mind", the anthropological concepts of "agency" and "hybrid collectivity", this study clarifies the material logic of artistic thought, through the detailed analyses of the process of making by Pablo Picasso, Robert Smithson, and other contemporary artists.

Free Research Field

芸術学