Visual Arts, the Senses and the Brain
Symposium organized by the School of Languages and Cultures research group (University of Sydney) ‘World Cinema, the Image and the Senses’.
ALL WELCOME – FREE EVENT –
At the University of Sydney on Friday 18 August 2017
From1.30pm to 5pm
New Law building
Lecture Theatre 024
Speakers:
• Professor David Alais, (University of Sydney) ‘Neuroscience and Cinema: How does the spectator’s brain respond to film?’
• Professor Jane Lydon (University of Western Australia) ‘Fantasy Islands: Photography, Empathy, and Australia’s Detention Archipelago’
• Dr Dr Julia Vassilieva (Monash University) ‘Current attractions and lessons from the past: Sergei Eisenstein, cinema and the brain’.
• Dr Karen Pearlman (Macquarie University) 'Thinking through editing: Vertov, Svilova and distributed cognition'
• Screening of 'Woman with an Editing Bench' (Pearlman, 2016),
This interdisciplinary symposium aims at gathering researchers in neuroscience and the visual arts to explore and share their research on the relationship between neuroscience and film theory, photographic studies and the arts.
In the last two decades, theories in the area of the visual arts have shown an increasing interest in neuroscientific research in order to understand screen aesthetics and the effects of visual arts on audiences. Scientific discoveries such as mirror neurons, synaesthesia and embodied simulation are now informing theories of spectatorship.
Notions of embodiment and multisensoriality have come to challenge the idea that the visual arts engage our sense of vision only. Researchers have demonstrated the tactility of images, and pointed to the unconscious participation of the body and the senses in our encounter with the audiovisual and the photographic.
This symposium will offer the opportunity for discussion of spectatorship as the site at which the materiality of the body and social, cultural and political processes meet.
Please register to help with catering purposes.
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/slc/news_events/events/index.shtml?id=9713
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