Mediated Affects across Artistic Media (IMS Affect)

Image: Children reacting to a Puppet Show in François Truffaut’s Les quatre cents coups (1959).

Affect is a crucial component in how the world is experienced and an increasingly prominent characteristic of our interconnected age. Public discourses frequently draw on the affective register to various ends, shared affective attunements form the social glue of many communities, and art continues to move us in a multitude of ways.

IMS Affect researches how affect is shaped by the material conditions of a range of media and how affect becomes meaningful in interactions between media, bodies and the environment. With an emphasis on aesthetic analysis, IMS Affect offers tools for unpacking how affect and  the senses connect in engaging with media. It brings an intermedial intervention to the study of affect by exploring how media characteristics and media relations work in tandem to produce affective effects.

A hub for scholars from several disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, IMS Affect investigates topics such as the mediation of nostalgia, subjectivity in interacting with media, the depiction of illness through affect in comics, affect in music, moods in video games, and mediated authenticity in performance poetry. Alongside on-going research projects, IMS Affect develops educational materials and collaborates with a number of local and international partners.

IMS Affect is part of Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS).

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