[bioundgrd] 9.S52 Vistion in Art and Neuroscience *New Special Topics Class for Fall 2017*

[Janice Chang]

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From: Jillian Auerbach <jilliana at mit.edu<mailto:jilliana at mit.edu>>
Subject: *New Special Topics Class for Fall 2017*
Date: August 10, 2017 at 5:43:54 PM EDT

This is a new special topics class happening this Fall.

Thank you!
Jill

Special Topics Subject 9.S52
Title: Vision in Art and Neuroscience
Instructor: Pawan Sinha, Seth Riskin, Sara Schwettmann
Schedule: TR 3-5pm in Room 10-150
Units: 2-2-8
Prerequisites: None

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 a project for exhibition in the Compton Gallery at the end of the semester.


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Jillian Auerbach
Sr. Admin Undergraduate Program Asst.
MIT - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 46-2005R
Cambridge, MA. 02139
Phone: (617) 253-0482
Email: jilliana at mit.edu<mailto:jilliana at mit.edu>
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