exhibitions
Some exhibitions of interest to neuroesthetics…
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Was ist Schön
Beauty is talked about almost everywhere nowadays - on one hand as an enticing promise of a happy life and, on the other, as a pipe dream, whose unattainable nature threatens to become a problem for many people. The exhibition What is Beautiful? offers a critical examination of where we stand now and how we got here.27 March 2010 - 2 January 2011
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden -
Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics
Why do some works of art appeal so strongly to the human mind? Are artists really neuroscientists, trying to discover new and powerful ways to stimulate perceptual mechanisms in the brain? This collaboration between the Walters Art Museum and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University is a pioneering study in neuroesthetics, a new approach to the neural basis of the aesthetic experience.
Beauty and the Brain is both an exhibition and an experiment. Visitors will be invited to explore aesthetic spaces created by digitally morphing original works of art. Subject areas include modern abstract sculptures by renowned 20th-century artist Jean Arp. Responses from participants will be used to analyze how 3-D shape characteristics define aesthetic preference. The results will form the basis for experiments measuring aesthetic responses in the human brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
January 23 2010 - April 11 2010
The Walters Art Museum