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For Immediate Release:
The Phantom Limb Phenomena: Its Aesthetic Cultural and Philosophical
Implications.
A conference to be held at Goldsmiths College, Saturday and Sunday,
January 15th, and 16th, 2005.
Organized by Warren Neidich, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College
and Jules Davidoff, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College
Since its original description in 1866 by the Neurologist S. Mitchell the
phantom limb phenomena has attracted many scholars across a broad spectrum
of discourses. It describes the condition, found in many amputees, in
which sensation of the removed limb persists. As such it questions notions
of embodiment, the phenomenological self, the notion of immateriality,
ghosting, the neurobiological condition called “remapping” and neural
plasticity, the nature of what it is conscious, prosthetic culture, the
phantasmagoric, the foot fetish, boundaries, multiplicity, and a host of
other interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary conditions. This
conference would be interesting to those in the fields of neurobiology and
neuro-psychology, brain mapping, philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural
studies, anthropology, visual culture, literature, performance, video,
film and art as well as individuals who are amputees and experience this
condition first hand.
Participants include: Peter Brugger- Professor Neurology, University of
Zurich, Switzerland, Elizabeth Cohen-University of Rochester, Chris
Frith-Wellcome Principal Research Fellow Professor in Neuropsychology,
Deputy Director, Leopold Müller Functional Imaging Laboratory, Eleanor
Kaufman-Dept of Comparative Literature, UCLA, Norman Klein- California
Institute of the Arts, Scott Lash- Director of the Center for Cultural
Studies, Goldsmiths, James Leach-Dept. of Anthropology, Cambridge, Mac
MacLachlan -Co-Director of the Dublin Psychoprosthetics Group, Dave
McGonigle- Center National Research Scientific,LENA, France Arnold
Modell- Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Andrew
Patrizio-Director of Research Development, Edinburgh College of Art, Marq
Smith, Editor, Visual Culture Magazine Vivian Sobchack-Associate Dean and
Professor of Critical Studies in Film and Television at the UCLA School of
Theater, Film and Television, Janet
Sternburg- California Institute of the Arts Simon Cohn, Dept. of
Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, Nicholas Wade-Professor of Visual
Psychology, University of Dundee, Andreas Weber- Institute for Cultural
Studies, Humboldt University Zu, Berlin, Robert Zimmer- Chairman
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College.
For more information and sign up application form go to www.artbrain.org,
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