Episode 14: Sascha Benjamin Fink & Andrew Rubner talk about Art as Cognition

In this talkPOPc event, held in our tent in a park in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we have two philosophers having a conversation about the current topic Art and Cognition: The Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner from Rutgers and Sascha Benjamin Fink from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. Tackling the distinction between something being art and something not being art, they discuss issues of intentionality, whether art can be created by accident, if the role of the artist involves the “intention to guide your attention”, and to what degree the viewer participates in the construction of art. Realist versus anti-realist debates finish the fruitful conversation.