[csaa-forum] Symposium: Visual Arts, The Senses and The Brain

[Kirsten Stevens]

VISUAL ARTS, THE SENSES AND THE BRAIN


*18 August, 20171:30pm - 5pm*

*Location:* Lecture Theatre 024, New Law Building, The University of Sydney

*Symposium organized by The University of Sydney, School of Languages and
Cultures research group ‘World Cinema, the Image and the Senses’*

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.

*1:30 pm*

*« Welcome to Country »*

*Opening of the Symposium*

*Professor Yixu Lu, Head of School of Languages and Cultures*





*1:40 pm*

*Professor David Alais,* (University of Sydney)

‘Neuroscience and Cinema: How does the spectator’s brain respond to film?’


*Round tableChairs: Associate Professor Michelle Royer and Dr Andrea
Bandhauer*





*2:45 pm*

*Professor Jane Lydon*  (University of Western Australia)

‘Photography, Empathy, and Australia’s Detention Archipelago’

*Chairs: Dr Giorgia Alu and Dr Sonia Wilson*





*3:25 pm*

*Coffee/Tea Break*





*3:45 pm*

*Dr Julia Vassilieva* (Monash University)

‘Current attractions and lessons from the past: Sergei Eisenstein, cinema
and the brain’

*Chair: Dr Andrea Bandhauer*





*4:15 pm*

*Dr Karen Pearlman*  (Macquarie University)

'Thinking through editing: Vertov, Svilova and distributed cognition'

·        Screening of* Woman with an Editing Bench*(Pearlman, 2016)

·        Q &A with Karen Pearlman

*Chairs: Dr Sonia Wilson and Victoria Souliman*





*5:00 pm*

*Closing*

*Dr Sonia Wilson*



*Drinks at Courtyard Café*

*(Holme Building)*
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