In psychology, media studies and critical theory, the word affect is oftentimes mutated from a verb to a noun. Affect encapsulates the visual and emotional qualities of a work. We employ affect — pronounced af-ekt — when describing how a film, a song, a photograph, a painting or another artwork makes us feel and how we relate to it as spectators. In this issue, writers explored the emotional connections we make with art — both what we produce and consume — and how this drives us forward.
