Venue: The Spot - B01 (Copland Theatre), Copland Theatre
Presenters: Professor Semir Zeki FRS
Derek Denton Lectures in Science and the Arts
“...the artist is in a sense, a neuroscientist, exploring the potentials and capacities of the brain, though with different tools. How such creations can arouse aesthetic experiences can only be fully understood in neural terms. Such an understanding is now well within our reach.”
In this lecture Professor Semir Zeki will explain how viewing art is an example of the function of the brain and explore how the neural functions might explain variability of subjective experiences as well as the range of abilities to create and experience art.
Professor Zeki, founder of the Institute of Neuroaesthetics at UCL and Berkley California, is a pioneer in the field of neuroaesthetics, and led the world in discovering that different visual attributes such as motion, form and, in particular, colour are processed in parallel by separate visual areas of the brain.
Chairman: Dr Robyn Williams AM
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7552-the-inaugural-derek-denton-lecture-in-the-arts-the
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