[visionlist] ART AND SCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION meeting in Benasque, SPAIN.

Wed Mar 11 02:07:15 PDT 2009

ART AND SCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION

The "Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual" in Spain, is hosting a symposium for 2009 that under the title "Art and Science: Exploring the limits of human perception" wants to be a forum for artists and scientists who have common interests. The symposium is a featured part of the year-long series of scientific meetings sponsored by the "Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual" and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). 

The program consists of a series of public conversations between artists and scientists with the purpose of bringing together these seemingly disparate, but we feel intimately related, fields. The format of the symposium gravitates around paired special lectures by an artist and a scientist on their practice, followed by an open discussion exploring the nature of the relationship between their fields. We strongly believe that activities such as this symposium should help to raise awareness about the importance of the research in these topics and also about the specific contributions of the artists to science and vice versa. Finally, we pretend that it could serve as the perfect setting to foster future collaborations between artists and scientists that would thus benefit from each other's contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying human perception.

The symposium will cover several topics including the visual science of visual arts, the perception of visual space and architecture, cinematographic arts, choreography, virtual reality, magic and attention, consciousness, olfaction and taste, music and audition, how do we perceive artistic and scientific displays, etc.  In addition to the paired plenary sessions, the meeting will include contributed talks, poster presentations and special events such as wine and food tasting by one of the most original Spanish cooks, auditions, etc. The final program and registration instructions can be found in the meeting website (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009art/). This year's Art and Science Closing Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Semir Zeki from University College London.

The conference will take place between the dates of July 12-16, 2009 in Benasque, a beautiful small village located in the Pyrenees, the mountain range that forms the natural border between France and Spain. Benasque is one of the preferred destinations for nature and outdoor tourism in northern Spain. The meeting will last for 5 days with a not so tight schedule so people can take some time off in the afternoons to hike or just simply visit the many Romanic churches and lakes scattered around the area. 

The auditorium at the "Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual" seats over 100 people and we can anticipate that the meeting will equally attract scientists and artists. The first registration deadline is approaching so please, make sure that you make all the arrangements to come on time.

If you have any questions regarding registration, poster presentations, travelling to Benasque, etc, please send your messages to this e-mail address l.martinez at umh.es. 

Luis M. Martinez

On behalf of the Organizing Committee.

Luis M. Martínez Otero, Ph.D.

Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, SPAIN.

Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D.

Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Az, USA.

Angela Nieto, Ph.D.

Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, SPAIN.

Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D. Ph.D.

The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.

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Luis M. Martinez, PhD
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernández
Campus de Sant Joan
Avenida Ramón y Cajal S/N
03550 Sant Joan d'Alacant
SPAIN

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