TOMORROW! Tuesday, November 25, 2008

SEMIR ZEKI and A S Byatt's Lecture

Neuroesthetics, Love and Literature

6pm at the University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Clifton


You do not even understand how much I want to meet this man!


more info
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The Human Visual System 101

Lovely diagrams (well 3 of the 4), that break the visual system down to its basics...

Fun!

The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage

Not that the visuals are at all relevant to the music,
but it does go well with the beat and presents some fun optical illusions...



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Thanks to my friend anna for showing it to me.

Also see you here...

Institute of Philosphy, School of Advanced Study: London Aesthetics Forum

4 Dec 2008
Toward a Non-Minimalist Conception of Aesthetic Experience
Jerrold Levinson

4pm-6pm in NG16, North Block, Senate House, WC1, London
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See you there...

Autumn Art Lectures 2008
The Creative Brain: Conversations between Art and Science


25 November 2008
Neuroesthetics, Love and Literature
Semir Zeki and A S Byatt
(obviously going to be related to Zeki's book that comes out this week)

2 December 2008
Art Inspired by Science
Lizzie Burns and Karen Ingham

9 December 2008
In Two Minds: Neuroscience of Perception and Creativity
Mark Lythgoe and Richard Wentworth

15 December 2008
The Power of Art and Science to Understand the World
Paul Nurse and Jason Brooks
CANCELLED!

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All events take place at 6pm in the University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Clifton.
Open to all, no prior booking.
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Your eye is not a camera. Part 1 of ∞

If you are not convinced vision isn't always veridical (coinciding with reality),
I will have lots of visual illusions soon to change your mind.
I've been a little caught up in research (sans visuals) lately.
So now I am looking for lots of illustrations to help get back to inspiring the visual basis of all this.
They can be more than a little headache-inducing at times though, so I don't want to post tons at a time.
Here's one to get the ball rolling...

(This is a still image. Any perceived motion is an illusion.)

source


One of the most important concepts I want to stress is that our perceptions are internal constructions of hypothesized external realities!!!

(I put the 2nd half in italics because it is quoted from my notes for my Visual Perception class last semester.
It may have been a direct quote from my teacher, Adrien Mack, or it may just be me summarizing her lecture.)
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