Embodied Cognition and 3D Art: Art, #2

By Sergio Torres-Martínez

This book offers a prospectus of what might be achievable in the development of a theory of embodiment in 3D art. This theory, departs from the assumption that our grasp of reality is direct. In other words, concepts possess traces of sensuous experiences that are not attributable to computations in the brain only. In the context of semiotics, this means that signification is not the result of the association of signs to references in the world, but a continuous flux of signal-sign hybridizations (semiosis). This is possible because living organisms are predictive systems in continuous adaptation to their eco-niche as a means to reduce states of increasing uncertainty (entropy).  Active Inference (AIF), a computational theory for the comprehension of intelligent agency is used in this book as a principle for the exploration of embodied cognition in art, particularly the various ways this is mobilized in the construction of 3D work. The version of AIF presented in this book defends the idea that bodily-acquired information shapes our grasp of reality. Hence, it is argued that the construction of signification in art reflects an embodied connection between perception, memory and consciousness (extended mind) as a means to reconstruct reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sergio Torres-Martínez
• Release date: Oct 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201385996

Sergio Torres-Martínez

Sergio Torres–Martínez is professor of cognitive linguistics, semiotics and translation semiotics. Among his main interests are Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, embodiment theory, phenomenology, Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, Peircean semiotics and the cognitive applications of construction grammar (Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar). Current research projects include the conceptualization of construction grammar as an interdisciplinary field of endeavor connecting embodiment theory, neuroscience semiotics and philosophy for the construction of a comprehensive and systematic description of constructional attachment patterns across languages. Central to this research is the need to provide linguistics with a model of the mind that complements linguistic description. 

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by Sergio Torres-Martínez

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Preface

This book offers a prospectus of what might be achievable in the development of a theory of embodiment in 3D art. This theory, departs from the assumption that our grasp of reality is direct. In other words, concepts possess traces of sensuous experiences that are not attributable to computations in the brain only. In the context of semiotics, this means that signification is not the result of the association of signs to references in the world, but a continuous flux of signal-sign hybridations (semiosis). This is possible because living organisms are predictive systems in continuous adaptation to their eco-niche as a means to reduce states of increasing uncertainty (entropy). Active Inference (AIF), a computational theory for the comprehension of intelligent agency is used in this book as a principle for the exploration of embodied cognition in art, particularly the various ways this is mobilized in the construction of 3D work. The version of AIF presented in this book defends the idea that bodily-acquired information shapes our grasp of reality. Hence, it is argued that the construction of signification in art reflects an embodied connection between perception, memory and consciousness (extended mind) as a means to reconstruct reality.

Contents

Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

An embodied theory of art

1. Introduction

2. Embodied 3D art

3. Conclusion

References

Plates

About the author

An embodied theory of art

1. Introduction

This book introduces a semiotic theory of art termed Embodied Semiotics (ES) that aims to offer a suitable ontology for the design of a type of research that sees embodiment as a part of the agentive construction of the artistic Self in the world. The main theoretical claim