past events

International Association for Art and Psychology

The 10th Anniversary Meeting of the International Assocation for Art and Psychology will take place in Montepulciano, Italy between the 18th and 20th of June. Semir Zeki will give a talk entitled The objectivity of subjective truths: Beauty, desire, love.

See Further: The Festival of Science + Arts

This year the Royal Society, the UK’s academy of science, marks its 350th anniversary and to celebrate Southbank Centre and the Royal Society are coming together to explore science and our human impulse to understand the world we live in.

25 June - 4 July 2010
Southbank Centre

Alledaagse Schoonheid

Semir Zeki will deliver a talk on Beauty and the Brain on 26 April 2010 in Groningen, The Netherlands. More information on the Studium Generale website.

Kinesthetic Empathy: Concepts and Contexts

A peer reviewed conference bringing together researchers and practitioners in fields including neuroscience, dance, film, music, and contemporary embodied practices, to explore the nature and role of kinesthetic empathy. Hosted by The Watching Dance Project.

22-23 April 2010.

Annual Meeting in Neuroesthetics

The annual meeting in neuroesthetics will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, California, on the topic of Time and Timing.

16 January 2010

Research forum

The Courtauld Institute of Art are holding a series of events as part of their research forum. More details can be found at the Courtauld Institute website

Courtauld Institute
21 September 2009 - 8 December 2009

ANFA Interfaces

The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture announces a new series of events, ANFA Interfaces. The first event will be the renowned architect Gordon H. Chong presenting his talk, "designedinformed…transforming evidence into innovation". It will be followed by a commentary from the Salk Institute neuroscientist, Dr. Fred "Rusty" Gage, as well as an open discussion and participation from the audience. More information is available on the ANFA website.

4 November 2009

Optical Portraiture: Painting the 3rd Dimension

Gallery 286 hosts the exhibition Optical Portraiture: Painting the 3rd Dimension by Roy Amiss. The exhibition features the unique optical paintings of Roy Amiss which he has dubbed ‘hand-painted holographs’, owing to their similarity in appearance to holograms, but emphasising the hand-made aspect of using a paintbrush instead of a laser.

10 November - 30 November 2009

The Children's Book

Semir Zeki, Neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroesthetics at University College London, discusses his work with Martin Ingvar, Head of the Osher Centre for Integrative Medicine and of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and with internationally renowned novelist Dame Antonia Byatt, whose latest work, The Children’s Book, is on the shortlist for the 2009 ManBooker Prize. This discussion takes place in The Residence of the Ambassador of Sweden, 27 Portland Place, London W1 1QA (entrance on New Cavendish Street). 7pm

26 November 2009

Exquisite Bodies: Or the curious and grotesque story of the anatomical model

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road, London
30 July - 18 October 2009

Im Dunkeln sieht man die Licht

An exhibition taking a fresh look at the work of Karin de Bour, Reto Klumbvus, Otto Mennings, David Renggli and Kelley Tippsman.

Centre d'Art de Fribourg, Kunsthalle Freiburg, German.
11 July - 19 October 2009

Maurice de Vlaminck, A Fauve Instinct

Paintings from 1900 to 1915

CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
3 July - 19 October 2009

The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts

Professor Dame Gillian Beer's lecture 'The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts' will take place on Wednesday 1 July (18:45) at the Henry Wellcome Auditorium, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre

183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
1 July 2009

The Art and Mind Festival

The Art and Mind Festival: Dreams, Art and the Brain in association with the University of Winchester. Featuring Sufi music, jazz and film, Rita Carter on lucid dreams, Jeff Warren and ‘Head Trip’. Also including the first UK performance of a major new work by Sir John Tavener.

6 July 2009

The Art of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Visual Cultures

The Art of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Visual Cultures will take place from Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 July 2009 at The Courtauld Institute of Art.

2-4 July 2009

Neuroesthetics in Venice

A symposium organized by the Association of Neuroesthetics in partnership with the Marino Golinelli Foundation and with the support of the Schering Foundation.

Peggy Guggenheim Museum,
Venice,
June 4, 2-6 pm.

The Aesthetics of Love in Literature and in the Brain

A public dialogue between Dame Antonia Byatt, novelist and poet, and Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroesthetics, UCL. Chaired by Sian Ede.

University College London
United Kingdom
21 May 2009

Emotion in Literature and the Brain

A public dialogue between Ian McEwan, novelist, and Ray Dolan, Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL. Chaired by Tim Marlow.

University College London
United Kingdom
30 April 2009

Through Tristan's Eyes

A public dialogue between Semir Zeki, neurobiologist, and Peter Sellars, opera producer.

The Rubin Museum of Art
New York, USA
21 March 2009
Link

Sonno et Sogno

Third Interdisciplinary Meeting on Neuroesthetics

Università degli Studi di Milano
Milan, Italy
13th December 2006
Link

Il cervello visivo

Auditorium Parco della Musica

Rome, Italy
19th May 2006
Link

Round Table Meeting on Aesthetics

Keio University
Keio, Japan
31st July 2006
Link

The London School of Painting and Drawing Exhibition

54 THE GALLERY
Shepherd Market, Mayfair
London W1Y 7HP
23d May - 28th May 2006
Link

Columbia Forum on Art and the New Biology of Mind

The Italien Academy for Advanced Studies of the Art and Mind

Teatro of the Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, USA
Friday 24 March 2006
from 9:30am to 6:00pm
Programme

Tristan and Isolde

A Neuroesthetic Must!

Opéra National de Paris Premiere 8th November 2005

"Flavours of Experience"

The Fifth International Conference on Neuroesthetics

The Institute of Neuroesthetics - Minerva Foundation
University of California Berkeley
21st January 2006

Language Poetry and the Brain

Theatre Royal Winchester
22d October 2005
Link

Blind Art: Sense & Sensuality

Royal College of Art, London
March 2005
Link

Caravaggio: The Final Years

National Galery, London
23d February - 22nd May 2005
Link

Empathy in the Brain and Art: The Fourth International Conference on Neuroesthetics

University of California, Berkeley
15th January 2005
Link

Eyes, Lies & Illusions

Hayward Gallery, London
7th October 2004 - 3d January 2004

La ciudad inquieta

Contemporary urbanism

Madrid, Spain,
November 2004

Immagini della mente: neuroscienze, arte, filosofia

Milano, Italy,
University of Milano
9th December 2004

Kreativtherapie in der Neurorehabilitation

"Creativity Therapy" in Neurologic Rehabilitation

Meidling, Germany,
3d-4th December 2004

Festival della Scienza

Genoa, Italy,
28th October - 8th November 2004
Link

Mathématiques / Résonances 1

Centre d'Art Contemporain / Kunsthalle
2nd October - 19th December 2004
Isabelle Arthuis and Erwan Mahéo
Sarah Glaisen, Pierre Guinot, Anahit Simonian, Christiane Hamacher, Nicolas Pages, Lauris Paulus, St-Denis

Story, Metaphor, Vision: Cognitive Science and the Humanities

Stanford, USA,
10th - 12th November 2004
Link

Pelléas et Mélisande

Paris, France,
September, October 2004
Link

Nuovo e Utile

Florence, Italy,
28th September - 29 September 2004
Link

Proposta per un Nuovo Ponte dell'Academia a Venezia

Venice, Italy,
15th September 2004
Jürg Altherr - Project for a new Accademia Bridge

GENIALMENTE - l'arte dell cervello

Trieste, Italy, 25th June - 29 August 2004
Programme (PDF)
This exhibition is the brainchild of Luca Ticini, member of the Institute of Neuroesthetics.

Emotion in Art and the Brain

The Third Annual Conference of the institute of neuroesthetics

Berkeley, California
Speakers will include Ray Dolan (London), Dan Fessler (UCLA), Semir Zeki (London), Tony Damasio (Iowa; tentative) and David Freedberg (Columbia University, New York).

Piero Dorazio Exhibition

PIERO DORAZIO - Retrospective
including:
Colore e Cervello - Colour and the Brain
Exhibition by Semir Zeki, London
22 February - 30 May 2004
Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland

Symposium for Creative Therapy after TBI

Rehabilitationcenter, Vienna
November 22 2003

Congrès Annuel de la Société Québécoises pour la Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP)

l'Université de Montréal, November 14-16 2003
Link

Mondriaan Symposium

(including a lecture by S Zeki: Mondriaan and the Mathematics of the Brain)
Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
October 25 2003
Link

Exposición Kandinsky

"La Disolución de la Forma"

3d June - 24th September 2003
La Pedrera. Passeig de Gràcia, 92
Barcelona

ETH Zurich Interdisciplinary Conference

Cortona, Italy, September 6-13 2003

Venice Biennale

Venice, Italy 2003
Link

Summer Lectures sponsored by the Institute

Science and Art - July 21, 5pm
Bonnard - August 4, 5pm
Given by Jo Ann Caplin,
Professor and Park Distinguished Chair
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Ithaca College, New York
Ambiguity in art and in the brain - July 23, 5pm
Given by Semir Zeki
Professor of Neurobiology, UCL

All lectures held at the Slade School of Art, University College London