vision symposium streaming, budapest

[anna balint]

http://vision.c3.hu/real/vison.ram

Budapest Autumn Festival- Mûcsarnok/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
Jean-Pierre Changeux
(Collège de France; Institut Pasteur, Paris)
A neurocognitive and evolutionary approach to art - the example of visual arts

10.50
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
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
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
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
Ilona Kovács
(BME: Budapest Technical University, Budapest / Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
Capturing Time: From E. J. Marey to Modern Neuroscience


18.00
Concluding discussion