writing & research
On imagery vividness and art-making
On how imagining can be instrumentalised, and what that means for subjectivity
On how imagining can be instrumentalised, and what that means for subjectivity
MacKisack, M., Aldworth, S., Macpherson, F., Onians, J., Winlove, C., & Zeman, A. (2022). Plural Imagination: Diversity in Mind and Making. Art Journal, 81(3), 70–87
MacKisack, M. (2021) ’The art of Aphantasia: how ‘mind blind’ artists create without being able to visualise’. The Conversation.
MacKisack, M. (2019) ’Notes on an Aphantasic Artist’, Interalia Magazine
MacKisack, M. (2018) ‘From Inner Design to Extended Mind: the aphantasic artist in history’. Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye. Exeter: Eye’s Mind Publications
MacKisack, M. (2016) ‘Ut Pictura Poesis and Differential Imagery Experience in the 18th-Century’, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 41, no.4., 319-331
On how imagining can be instrumentalised, and what that means for subjectivity
On how imagining can be instrumentalised, and what that means for subjectivity
On how imagining can be instrumentalised, and what that means for subjectivity
MacKisack, Matthew. "16. “Think, Pig!”: Modernist Art, Psychotherapy, and the Instrumentalization of Imagining." Modernism, Art, Therapy, edited by Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan, Yale University Press, 2024
MacKisack, M. (2020) ’Imagination as Instrument In Art, Science And Society’. ESPACE art actuel n° 126 (automne/fall 2020)
MacKisack, M. (2012) ‘The Polite Convention that Everyone Thinks’, in Quaresma, J., (ed) The Foresight of Alan Turing: Technological Simulations in Art and Science, Lisboa: CIEBA Ed.
Contributions to empirical work on imagery
On how imagining can be instrumentalised, and what that means for subjectivity
On the deep history of visual and verbal imagery
Milton, F., Fulford, J., Dance, C., Gaddum, J., Heuerman-Williamson, B., Jones, K., MacKisack, M., Winlove, C., Zeman, A. (2020, September 4). ‘Behavioral and neural signatures of visual imagery vividness extremes: Aphantasia vs. Hyperphantasia’.
Adam Zeman, Fraser Milton, Sergio Della Sala, Michaela Dewar, Timothy Frayling, James Gaddum, Andrew Hattersley, Brittany Heuerman-Williamson, Kealan Jones, Matthew MacKisack, Crawford Winlove. ‘Phantasia–The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes’. Cortex, Volume 130, 2020, Pages 426-440
Winlove, C., Milton, F., Ranson, J., Fulford, J., MacKisack, M., Macpherson, F., Zeman, A. (2018) ‘The neural correlates of visual imagery: a co-ordinate-based meta-analysis’. Cortex. Online 2 January. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.014
On the deep history of visual and verbal imagery
On the deep history of visual and verbal imagery
On the deep history of visual and verbal imagery
MacKisack, M. (2017) ‘Painter and Scribe: from Model of Mind to Cognitive Strategy’. Cortex.. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.11.018.
On aphantasic imagining and extended cognition
On the deep history of visual and verbal imagery
On aphantasic imagining and extended cognition
MacKisack, M. (2019) ’Aphantasic Artists: Extended Imagining?’, The Junkyard
On the history of imagining
On the deep history of visual and verbal imagery
On aphantasic imagining and extended cognition
MacKisack, M., Onians, J., Macpherson, F., Winlove, C., Zeman, A. (2016) ‘On Picturing a Candle: the Prehistory of Imagery Science’, Frontiers in Psychology. 7:515.
On Solaris and translation between media
On the art and science of flicker-induced imagery
On the art and science of flicker-induced imagery
On the art and science of flicker-induced imagery
On the art and science of flicker-induced imagery
On the art and science of flicker-induced imagery
Mackisack, M., Reeder, R. (2022) ‘Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why’