Towards an active image analysis of visual arts: developing an approach that allows a creative interaction with encoded and non-encoded image elements in images. Hasselt University
In theoretical image analysis, the long-standing approach which tends to read images and "decode" them as text is still dominant. Such analyses of visual arts often fail to take into account the physical, affective dimension that influences cognitive processes and the reception of images. Moreover, this decoding approach offers little insight in the aesthetic process itself. Its contextualizing and descriptive perspective is often too limited to ...