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Budapest Autumn Festival- Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest - C3
18 October – 17 November 2002
IMAGE and the BRAIN
Scientific symposium, 19-20 October 2002 in the Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest
The wise man's eyes are in his head;
(Ecc. 2.14, Authorised King James version)
Symposium on the connections between the visual arts and brain research. The invited lecturers are the highest representatives of world renown of the neuronal (anatomical, physiological), behavioural (neurological, psychophysical) and theoretical (philosophical) approaches of brain research, and they are bound together by their common interest touching upon the background of the nervous system as it relates to the creative process. Alongside the scientific researchers, eminent representatives of the sphere of art and the humanities will also take part in the conference.
Saturday, 19 October 2002
10.00
Introduction to the conference on the part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA): József Hámori, Vice-President of the Academy for the Life Sciences and Ernő Marosi, Vice-President of the Academy for the Social Sciences and the Humanities
10.30 | video
Richard Gregory:
(Professor Emeritus, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing
College, Cambridge, UK )
Putting Illusions in Their Place
11.40 | video
Siegfried Zielinski
(Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany)
An Interface without a medium. Empedokles'
Concept of Seeing and some consequences for the philosophy of nature
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 | video
Gyula Kovács
(Center for Cognitive Sciences, BME: Budapest Technical University,
Budapest )
The vision of the ancestors – object and
shape representation in Palaeolithic cave art
14.40 | video
Peter Weibel - Hans H. Diebner
(ZKM: Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany)
A time-continuous cognitive system
15.40 - 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 | video
Balázs Gulyás
(Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;
Institute for Advanced Study – Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary)
Vision, visual imagery, art and brain
17.00 | video
Nicholas Wade
(Professor of Visual Psychology; Department of Psychology, University
of Dundee, Scotland)
Images of Vision
18.00
Concluding discussion