Barbara Maria Stafford (University of Chicago)
Slow Looking: whatever happened to selective attention?
Friday 27th November, 2.30pm
Black Dog Institute Lecture Theatre, G39, Hospital Road, Prince of
Wales Hospital, High St, Randwick
Directions at http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/Howtofindus-2007.pdf
Drinks after the talk
This talk opens the door onto a dialogue between the mind-science of
the humanities and the brain science of neurobiology. Professor
Stafford develops a typology of looking, based partly on neurological
research and partly on different art formats. If we actually look at
how human beings behave when they involve themselves in complex
activities (thinking, communicating, investigating, observing), they
slow down, even hesitate.
Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service
Professor, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. She is one of
today's leading interdisciplinary theorists bridging arts, sciences,
and social thought, with particular interests in connections between
art practice and neuroscience/ cognitive theory. Her books include
Body Criticism (1991), Artful Science (1994), Visual Analogy (1999),
and Echo Objects: the cognitive work of images (2007). Her website is
http://barbaramariastafford.com/
Co-hosted by the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Brain
Sciences UNSW, and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW
Enquiries to John Sutton, [email protected]
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Professor John Sutton
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Macquarie University, Sydney,
NSW 2109, Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132
http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/
ASCS09: 9th conference, Australasian Society for Cognitive Science
http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09
Memory Studies (Sage journal): http://mss.sagepub.com/
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