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MEETINGS FOR 2008-2009

Thursday 11 September 2008

When Vision Explores Art

Part of the Festival of Science in the European
Capital of Culture, Liverpool

An all day meeting in the Victoria Gallery & Museum,
University of Liverpool

Victoria Gallery

The Victoria Building is currently undergoing a £7.5m
conversion to house the University of Liverpool Art
and Heritage collections

Purpose: to bring together artists and scientists who relate visual perception to visual art (or vice versa), in particular colour vision.

 Event Summary: This event will bring together scientists who study visual perception and artists. It explores how visual art can help us to understand cognitive mechanisms of vision and how the brain works. E.g. why do Bridget Riley’s paintings make your eyes go funny? We will try to provide answers to such questions based on our knowledge of how the human visual system works.

Time:        09.30 to 18.00

Venue:     Leggate Theatre, Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool (http://www.liv.ac.uk/vgm/)

Event Fee:  £5     The meeting is part of the British Association for the Advancement of Science BA Festival of Science in Liverpool
                Book using the BA Festival of Science web site:
                http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/FestivalofScience/Booking/


09:30     Coffee

09:50     Welcome: Introductory remarks by Galina Paramei and Sophie Wuerger 
                    Dr Sophie Wuerger - University of Liverpool
10:00     From Kandinsky's paintings to the Watercolour illusion: A new theory of colour filling-in.
                    Professor Baingio Pinna - Universita di Sassari
10:50     The brain of the beholder and the visual music of abstract art  
                    Dr Richard Latto - University of Liverpool
11:40     Meaning of colour: Lessons from Turner and others
                    Professor Anya Ilurlbert - University of Newcastle

12:30     Lunch Break

14:00     How Op Artists create motion illusions in static paintings
                    Professor Johannes Zanker - Royal Holloway University of London
14:50     Visual illusions in the real world: from swelling columns to big bums
                    Dr Peter Thompson-York University

15:40     Coffee

16:00     Colouring the Mind
                    Dr Beau Lotto - University College London
16:50     Extend your perception of the world; become a cyborg
                    Mr Neil Harbisson

17:30     Close



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