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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.
Sunday, 20 October 2002
10.00 | video
Jean-Pierre Changeux
(Collège de France; Institut Pasteur, Paris)
A neurocognitive and evolutionary approach
to art - the example of visual arts
10.50 | video
David Melcher & Francesca Bacci
(Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy)
The “monument of an instant”: The portrayal
of central and peripheral vision in the work of the Italian “Impressionist”
sculptor Medardo Rosso
11.40 | video
Zoltán Vidnyánszky
Scientific Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA
TKI), Neurobiological Research Group
Attention! Active Vision
12.30 - 14.30
Lunch break
14.30 - 15.30
Concluding discussion of the first day
15.30 | video
Melvyn A. Goodale
(Canada Research Professor in Visual Neuroscience; University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada)
Seeing and doing: Why vision is more than
perception
16.20 | video
Jaroslav Andel
(Independent Curator, New York, USA)
Jan Evangelista Purkinje and the Emergence
of Neuroscience, Modern Art, and New Media
17.00 - 17.10
Coffee break
17.10 | video
Ilona Kovács
(BME: Budapest Technical University, Budapest / Rutgers University,
NJ, USA)
Capturing Time: From E. J. Marey to Modern
Neuroscience
18.00 | video
Concluding discussion