Project: “Digitizing visual art – Does a multimodal enriched visualization enhance our aesthetic experience?

Summary

Artworks such as paintings are visually rich and exhibit a highly complex interaction between light and the medium. Standard digitisation process consists in taking a photograph of an artwork. However, the perceptual richness of the artwork is irremediably lost through this process. In the current project, we propose to investigate how humans use and respond (UNIL partner, SSP-IP) to new perceptual solutions (EPFL partner, eFacsimile project, IC-LCAV) that allow the digital visualisation and manipulation of visual art using a multimodal interactive interface. Two planned studies will take place at the Fondation Martin Bodmer and at EPFL.

01.2016