About
ARTOEND is an independent magazine devoted to aesthetic experience, what it is, how it works on us, and why that encounter has mattered to human beings for as long as we have been human. It gathers essays, interviews, visual research, and artist pages that take the experience seriously enough to approach it from every direction at once.
The magazine is an initiative of the NAPAT Foundation, an interdisciplinary collective working at the nexus where Neuroscience meets Art, Philosophy, Anthropology and Technology. The Foundation began from a simple motivation that aesthetic experience has been studied in fragments, with each discipline holding a piece and none holding the whole. Its work moves deliberately across those silos, letting art-centered research inform therapeutic and educational practice and insisting that technological advance be rooted in ethical necessity rather than technical possibility.
It is with immense pride that this magazine is conceptualized and born out of Asia. For too long, the dominant dialogues surrounding both neuroscience and contemporary aesthetics have been geographically concentrated. Yet the profound, intrinsic connection between the mind, the corporeal form, and our environment is deeply rooted in Eastern philosophy and heritage. By grounding this publication here, we are not merely participating in a global conversation, but we are fundamentally enriching it. We step forward to offer a uniquely Asian sensibility. From this vibrant focal point, we invite the world to look through our lens and explore the human sensorium with us.
We publish one volume each year, in two issues. Each volume follows a single line of inquiry across both, developed through conversations with practitioners and researchers, commissioned essays, and artist pages made for the page. Alongside the magazine, the Foundation publishes independent projects: editions, monographs, catalogs, and collaborative works belonging to the same investigation.
All proceeds return to NAPAT's community and research funds, which support artists, authors, activists, practitioners, and researchers directly and sustain ongoing work where art and the sciences meet.