Themen
Areas of Focus
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Music Listening in Classical Concerts
Theory, Literature Review, and Research Program
Frontiers in Psychology, 12(638783)
Performing and listening to music occurs in specific situations, requiring specific media. Empirical research on music listening and appreciation, how... Read More
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Physiological Synchrony in Audiences of Live Concerts
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Advance online publication
Entrainment and synchronization play major roles in understanding the emotional effects of music; thus, we were interested in synchronized responses o... Read More
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Synchrony in the Periphery
Inter-Subject Correlation of Physiological Responses During Live Music Concerts
Scientific Reports, 11(1)
While there is an increasing shift in cognitive science to study perception of naturalistic stimuli, this study extends this goal to naturalistic cont... Read More
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Managing and Evaluating the Performing Arts
Value Creation through Resource Transformation
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Vol. 51 (1)
This article proposes a framework conceptualizing the artistic dimension of organizational performance in performing arts organizations that is ground... Read More
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Eine Konzerttheorie
Musiktheorie, Vol. 33 (4)
This article aims to develop the fundamentals of a theory of concert. Since it wants to explore why in history there is a wide variety of the ways to... Read More
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Tertiary Musical Performance Education
An Artistic Education for Life or an out-Dated Concept of Musicianship?
Music & Practice, Vol. 3
Fundamental changes within the sphere of classical music have raised the question of how institutions of higher education in music, especially perform... Read More
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Art Affinity Influences Art Reception
(in the Eye of the Beholder)
Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 34 (1)
It is widely assumed that one does only experience and appreciate what one knows. This becomes evident when overviewing studies on the interplay of ar... Read More
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Verkörperte Ästhetik
Psychoscope, Vol. 37
Kunstforschung ist traditionell eine geisteswissenschaftliche Aufgabe, bei der es um die gelehrte Interpretation, die kulturhistorische Einordnung und... Read More
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The Art Affinity Index (AAI):
An Instrument to Assess Art Relation and Art Knowledge
Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 33 (2)
The interplay of knowledge and art perception has been investigated over the past decades in various disciplines such as art sociology and aesthetic e... Read More
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The Museum Experience:
Mapping the Experience of Fine Art
Curator – The Museum Journal, Vol. 58 (2)
How do visitors to fine art museums experience exhibitions? Can we classify their experiences? What are the factors that drive different types of visi... Read More
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An Integrative and Comprehensive Methodology for Studying Aesthetic Experience in the Field:
Merging Movement Tracking, Physiology and Psychological Data
Environment and Behavior
In the interdisciplinary context of the Swiss National Research Project eMotion—mapping museum experience, an integrative methodology for visitor re... Read More
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Is this Art?
An experimental study on visitors’ judgment of contemporary art
Cultural Sociology, Vol. 8 (3)
‘Is this art?’ is a question often raised by museum visitors when encountering contemporary artworks. But what factors influence museum visitorsâ€... Read More
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Space, Movement and Attention:
Affordances of the Museum Environment
International Journal of Arts Management, Vol. 17 (1)
This article presents results from an in-depth visitor analysis conducted during an exhibition at the St. Gallen Museum of Fine Arts in Switzerland. U... Read More
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Subtle Differences:
Men and Women and their Art Reception
The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 48 (4)
Aesthetics: Does Sex Matter? While presenting this manuscript to art practitioners and art theorists, we noticed that there is great discomfort co... Read More
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The Effects of Curatorial Arrangements
Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 29 (2)
The prominence of the term ‘curating’ in the last decade stands at odds with the small amount of empirical research that has been conducted concer... Read More
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A Museum for the Twenty-First Century:
The Influence of ‘Sociality’ on Art Reception in Museum Space
Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 27 (5)
In recent decades museums have experienced a boom in popularity. This surge is not only reflected by the proliferation of spectacular new museum build... Read More
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Experiencing Exhibitions:
A Review of Studies on Visitor Experiences in Museums
Curator – The Museum Journal, Vol. 55 (4)
This article reviews empirically oriented studies from the United States and Europe concerning visitor experiences in museum exhibitions in order to p... Read More
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Physiological Correlates of Aesthetic Perception of Artworks in a Museum
Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol. 6 (1)
Arts experts are commonly skeptical of applying scientific methods to aesthetic experiencing, which remains a field of study predominantly for the hum... Read More
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The Physiology of Phenomenology:
The Effects of Artworks
Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 30 (1)
In a five-year long research project "eMotion—mapping museum experience," we assessed which effects artworks had on museum visitors and their behavi... Read More
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A Dynamic Systems Perspective on Fine Art and its Market
Futures: The Journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Vol. 43 (1)
This article focuses on dynamic systems theory applied to art systems, especially the social system of art. By this integrative approach, the field of... Read More
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The Creation of Cultural Policy in the Media:
A Field Research of Cultural Discourses in Germany
International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 17 (5)
In Germany, cultural policy is formally made on the level of municipalities, the Länder (federal states) and the federal government. With approximate... Read More
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The Entanglement of Arts and Sciences
On the Transaction Costs of Transdisciplinary Research Settings
Journal for Artistic Research, Vol. 1
Field of interest: Modes of Collaboration Surely as a reader one might ask: why are nearly twenty authors listed here, and did all of them contribute... Read More
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Systemtheorie, ein Versuch
Theorien für den Kultursektor, Jahrbuch Kulturmanagement 2010
Der Beitrag nimmt eine wissenschaftliche Verortung der verschiedenen Spielarten der Systemtheorie vor. Dabei wird auf drei für das Kulturmanagement b... Read More
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Postkulturmanagement
Transdisziplinäre Forschung im Kulturmanagement am Beispiel des Forschungsprojektes eMotion
Forschen im Kulturmanagement., Jahrbuch Kulturmanagement 2009
Prämisse dieses Beitrages ist, dass sich das Kulturmanagement von einer managementorientierten „Professionalisierung des institutionellen Handelnsâ... Read More