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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Jillian Auerbach <<a href="mailto:jilliana@mit.edu">jilliana@mit.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">August 10, 2017 at 5:43:54 PM EDT<br>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">This is a new special topics class happening this Fall.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Thank you!</div>
<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Jill</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b>Special Topics S</b><b>ubject 9.S52</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Title: Vision in Art and Neuroscience</font></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Calibri">Instructor: Pawan Sinha, Seth Riskin, Sara Schwettmann</font></span></div>
<div class=""><font face="Calibri">Schedule: TR 3-5pm in Room 10-150</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Calibri">Units: 2-2-8</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Calibri">Prerequisites: None</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Calibri">We will treat perception as an act of creation, the creation of an individual’s world of experience. From limited and noisy data incoming through the senses, our brains construct the rich world we perceive. Creating visual
art throws that world of experience back to the outside, and in it we find reflected some mechanisms of the constructive process of vision. As such, we can find examples in art which allow us to “perceive perception.” Through readings, lecture, discussion,
and project-based work, the course will explore the neural and computational mechanisms of vision and their parallel manifestations in visual art. We will develop and learn to use new tools in the arts (working mostly with light) to build installations which
allow us to physically experience different levels of the hierarchy of visual processing discussed in the course. The course is divided into one seminar-style lecture and one session of studio instruction per week. Students will use the studio time to develop
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<div>Jillian Auerbach</div>
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<div>Sr. Admin Undergraduate Program Asst.</div>
<div>MIT - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)</div>
<div>77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 46-2005R</div>
<div>Cambridge, MA. 02139</div>
<div>Phone: (617) 253-0482</div>
<div>Email: <a href="mailto:jilliana@mit.edu">jilliana@mit.edu</a></div>
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