Laboratory of Art Psychology

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LAP – Laboratory of Art Psychology is a laboratory for interdisciplinary research. It is an incubator of experimental sets and methods, linking the arts, the social sciences and the humanities. Our objective is to develop new forms of experimentation in the artistic field, art publishing, graphic design, photography and interactive education. LAP collaborates with international universities, fine arts academies, public and private museums, galleries and collections, foundations, research centers and laboratories. The Laboratory merges avant-garde theories and technologies with the visual arts. LAP’s experiments enable the viewer to experience the work of art.

Founder/Scientific Director
Miriam Mirolla

Members
Ludovica Aloia

Editorial Consultant
George Henry Keen

Activity

LAP's activity.

Publications

Miriam Mirolla. Esperimenti nell'arte

Kindle and paper.

Miriam Mirolla. Esperimenti nell'arte

Kindle and paper.

Experiments

Deprivazione visiva

Blind portraits and selfportraits.

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Videoritratti Antiespressivi.

3 Ritratti di Onorato Caetani

6 eventualist experiments.

MOS su Stimolo Stocastico

Experiments on eye movements.

Diana e Atteone

Un mito in due quadri.

La psiche Alata

Un esperimento sui movimenti oculari.

Underground Eventualista

7 incontri al MACRO
Gennaio - febbraio 2019

Conferencies

I° Convegno di Psicologia dell'Arte

Organized at Musei Capitolini.

SEINCONTRI: Silvia Vegetti Finzi

At Fondazione Caetani.

ECEM 2017

ECEM 2017ECEM 2017

About

LAP - Identity.

LAP’s logo, its visual identity, is inspired by the work of psychologist Fred Attneave; work based on non-sense random shapes. Constantly changing and unpredictable, LAP’s logo takes the viewer on a never-ending cognitive trip.

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Pubblicazioni

Kindle and paper.

Poster

Our posters

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Gadgets.

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Miriam Mirolla. Esperimenti nell'arte.

Kindle and paper.

“Miriam Mirolla. Experiments in Art” is LAP’s first publication which describes the work and the research of Professor Miriam Mirolla, LAP’s founder and director.

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  • Author: Emiliano Melchiorre
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  • Category: Publications

Miriam Mirolla. Esperimenti nell'arte.

Kindle and paper.

“Miriam Mirolla. Experiments in Art” is LAP’s first publication which describes the work and the research of Professor Miriam Mirolla, LAP’s founder and director.

To buy the book click

Buy

  • LAP Edition
    •  
  • Author: Emiliano Melchiorre
    •  
  • Category: Publications

Esperimenti di Deprivazione Visiva

Experiment performed at Musei Capitolini.

An experiment in visual subtraction was performed at Musei Capitolini in Rome in 2011, during the exhibition “Portraits: The Numerous Faces of Power”. Through a special drawing black box, the viewer had to draw the face of the marble sculpture without looking at his hand movements. The experiment was curated by Marco Marini.

Place: ABAR, Roma - Musei Capitolini, Roma Year: 2011 - 2016 Category: Experiments

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Esperimento svolto presso i Musei Capitolini.

Presso i Musei Capitolini di Roma, con un campione sperimentale di 54 soggetti, è stato realizzato un esperimento finalizzato alla produzione di autoritratti basati “sull’asrinenza espressiva”. Il compito sperimentale richiedeva ai partecipanti di registrare un video-ritratto, restando immobili per 60 secondi fissando la videocamera accesa. Le risposte ottenute, opportunamente registrate, sono state numerose e disomogenee, frutto di una partecipazione soggettiva ed introspettiva del singolo individuo.

Place: Musei Capitolini, Roma Year: 2013 Category: Experiments

3 Ritratti di Onorato Caetani

6 eventualist experiments.

LAP’s first experiment at the Fondazione Camillo Caetani involved three portraits of an individual, done by three different artists over the period of a few years. We submitted questionnaires to 300 people in order to investigate aesthetic and psychological interpretations in the viewer perception of portraits from the XVIII Century.

Place: Palazzo Caetani, Roma Year: 2014 Category: Experiments

MOS su Stimolo Stocastisco

Experiment on eye movements.

Eye Movements (EM) has become a central theme for Experimental Psychology in the 20th Century. Specifically, EM gaze paths were conducted on both representational and abstract artworks. But what if we observe a stochastic image? An experiment on a stochastic painting by artist-psychologist Sergio Lombardo allowed us to compare twenty “gaze paths movements” on an algorithm-generated image.

Place: Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle, Germania Year: 2015 Category: Experiments

Diana e Atteone

Un mito in due quadri.

Place: Palazzo Caetani, Roma Year: 2016 Category: Experiments

La Psiche Alata

Un esperimento sui movimenti oculari.

L'analisi dei movimenti oculari saccadici è divenuto un tema centrale nella Psicologia sperimentale durante il XX° secolo. In particolar modo, la misurazione dei movimenti oculari applicata allo studio delle opere d'arte ha rivelato un ampio spettro di differenze che emergono comparando opere astratte e figurative. Cosa succede, però, quando osserviamo un'immagine stocastica, un universo imprevedibile, che non ha né centro né confini? A tal fine, un esperimento su un dipinto stocastico ideato dall'artista-psicologo Sergio Lombardo è stato progettato ed eseguito. Scopo dell'esperimento è stato comparare 20 eye-gazing paths raccolti da un campione sperimentale e analizzare lo spettro evocativo nelle descrizioni fornite dagli spettatori.

Place: Musei Capitolini, Roma Year: 2016 Category: Experiments

UNDERGROUND EVENTUALISTA

7 incontri al MACRO

I° Convegno di Psicologia dell'Arte

Organized at Musei Capitolini.

In April 2011, during the “XIII Edition of the Scientific Cultural Week”, the Congress of Psychology of Art was held at Musei Capitolini in Rome. The congress was dedicated to the “Contemporary Portrait, from Futurism to Eventualism”. This was the beginning of a long collaboration between LAP and Musei Capitolini, the very first public museum in the world.

Place: Musei Capitolini, Roma Year: 2011 Category: Conferencies

SEINCONTRI: Silvia Vegetti Finzi

At Fondazione Camillo Caetani.

Silvia Vegetti Finzi, one of the most leading Italian psychologist and feminist, was invited at Caetani Foundation to speak about her life, work, and publications.

Place: Palazzo Caetani, Roma Year: 2017 Category: Conferences

ECEM 2017

19th European Conference on Eye Movements.

In August 2017, during the 19th ECEM Congress at Wuppertal University in Germany, LAP was invited to participate in a poster presentation. Thanks to LAP, we were the only Academy of Fine Arts invitated to ECEM, an important internationally recognized congress connecting scientific exsperimentation to contemporary art. At the ECEM Congress we collaborated, in brainstorming sessions, across multiple disciplines to develop new goals and methods in the Psychology of Art.

A few of the interviews can be seen on our website. Click here

Place: Palazzo Caetani, Roma Year: 2017 Category: Conferences