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\u201cDoes listening to music make kids more attentive? Does participating in dance help them with their visual and spatial skills?\u201d In citing those benefits of arts education, Pablo P.L. Tinio (Elementary & Early Childhood Education) agrees how important they are. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think art should be secondary,\u201d insists the cognitive\/educational psychologist. \u201cIt is what it is, its own entity. Humans spend a great deal of time and money making or looking at art. It doesn\u2019t make sense that it is itself of no value.\u201d As the professor elegantly states, \u201cArt should be the bride.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moving to New York at age 18, Tinio launched into college at Kean University as well as fashion\/portrait\/documentary photography and multimedia art. \u201cThe academic and the artistic always went hand in hand,\u201d as he puts it. Then, instead of art\u2019s bridegroom, he became a keen observer at the wedding, \u201cmore interested in how people experienced art, how they looked at the aesthetic side of it, rather than creating it.\u201d In 2006, after earning master\u2019s degrees in educational psychology at Rutgers and behavioral science at Kean, he moved to Austria to be a research scientist at one of the world\u2019s center of aesthetics inquiry, the Department of Psychology at the University of Vienna, and earned his doctorate. His focal point became \u201cthe continuity between what the artist was feeling and thinking at the moment of creation, and whether that is being picked up by the perceiver of art.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tinio\u2019s large kit of behavioral and psychophysiological tools distinguishes him from those using only one or two to analyze the factors contributing to an encounter with art, a field known as empirical aesthetics. To understand complex preferences in visual arts, how people learn about and engage with paintings and photographs, he enlists surveys, interviews, eye-tracking, controlled exposure, randomized studies, and other methods. \u201cI create measures that really get to their emotions, really get to their self-reflections,\u201d he notes. \u201cIt\u2019s not just asking people what they think of a certain piece.\u201d His many collaborations in the metro area and internationally include projects with the Whitney and Queens museums of art.<\/p>\n
Born in the Philippines, the son of two teachers, Tinio grew up on Guam. Helping his mother in her elementary school classroom, he recalls, \u201cI had chalk on my hands at all times.\u201d In his chalk talks today, Tinio transforms lectures into interactive seminars: \u201cI don\u2019t think I ever speak of an abstract concept without making it concrete.\u201d He had his Child Development students design toys geared to physical disabilities; their creative spins featured books, board games, and tops. His students\u2019 diverse backgrounds \u201cmake it so much fun to teach at Queens College,\u201d he has found since joining the faculty in 2010.<\/p>\n
As a psychologist \u201cworking with the arts, and interested in bringing arts to the classroom,\u201d Tinio believes in respecting children\u2019s \u201cna\u00efve response to art.\u201d Before a field trip to a museum\u2014which he strongly encourages\u2014he knows teachers may spend a week prepping their pupils. \u201cThat\u2019s wonderful,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it\u2019s also a bad thing because we\u2019re priming them to respond in a way we want them to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Encountering a visual artwork represents \u201ca connection, as it is with most people, but with me it\u2019s more explicit,\u201d Tinio says. \u201cHow does it fit in with my experiences, my life? I love, love looking at artworks and paying attention to my feelings. I love artworks that kind of scare me, that throw me off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Themes from his dissertation\u2014among them people\u2019s preference for images of nature over human-made scenes, how we spend more time looking at faces if they are attractive, and how emotion modulates the brain\u2019s affinity for curved objects\u2014continue to intrigue him. Tinio also is curious about how the first-hand emotional experience compares with the second-hand (such as viewing a painting vs. a digital image), and whether pixel quality affects the pleasure of perception. \u201cThere is something to be said for the scale of things, to going to an Imax theater and feeling the rumble in your stomach, the visceral experience of art,\u201d he believes.<\/p>\n
Among his scholarly works, Tinio has written numerous peer-reviewed articles, contributed to The Neuroscience of Creativity, and just completed another book. Recently, he was named co-editor of the journal The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts. In an interview in the American Psychological Association\u2019s Monitor on Psychology (January 2012), he mentioned how his frequent talks with art historians, curators, and artists have demonstrated their interest \u201cin what scientists have to say about the experience of art.\u201d<\/p>\n
He happily obliges. \u201cArt is one of the most puzzling things in the world, in our lives,\u201d Tinio reflects. \u201cIt\u2019s such a dominant aspect in terms of it being everywhere, in everything we do\u2014movies, posters, music while we\u2019re driving. It\u2019s a great challenge to be working with such a grand question.\u201d<\/p>\n
Favorite artists: <\/strong>Abstract Expressionists\u2014Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman among them\u2014fire his neurons for \u201cthe concept behind\u201d their squiggles and drips, color blocks and lines.<\/p>\nSurprising fact:<\/strong> Delights in bread-baking, rock climbing, mountaineering, winter backpacking, and \u201cliving in nature with only a few tools.\u201d<\/p>\nRecommended book:<\/strong> Eric Kandel\u2019s The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, <\/em>centering on Vienna.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Name: Pablo P.L. TinioTitle:ProfessorDepartment: Elementary & Early Childhood EducationDegree(s): PhD, University of ViennaContact Information: Office Powdermaker Hall 100 Phone: (718) 997-4913 Email: pablo.tinio@qc.cuny.edu “One of the things I think about as an educator working with the arts, and interested in bringing arts to the classroom, is this idea of respecting children\u2019s na\u00efve response to art.”- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-1266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}