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Sunday, August 16, 2009

All in the Mind - Art on the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist!

Very cool podcast for those interested in the intersection of art and neuroscience.

Art on the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist!

Acclaimed neuroscientist Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroaesthetics to probe the biological basis of the aesthetic experience, art, literature, love and beauty. He thinks scientists have lots to learn about the brain from the works of visual artists and romantic literature. And visit London's Hayward Gallery, where the Walking in My Mind exhibition has been described as a 'vast humming cranium' as artists unearth their creative process through vast installations.

Show Transcript

Transcripts are published by Wednesdays pm. Audio is available on Saturdays after broadcast.

Guests

Stephanie Rosenthal
Chief Curator
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
London
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/

Samir Zeki
Professor of Neuroesthetics
University College, London
http://neuroesthetics.org/

Further Information

All in the Mind blog for your comments
Join Natasha Mitchell and add your comments and thoughts

Walking in My Mind exhibition website

Semir Zeki's blog

Professor Zeki and colleagues' scientific research papers

Publications

Title: Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
Author: Semir Zeki
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
ISBN 978-1-40518558-5

Title: The neuroscience delusion
Author: Professor Raymond Tallis
Publisher: Times Literary Supplement, April 9, 2008
URL: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3712980.ece

Title: Inner Vision: An exploration of Art and the Brain
Author: Semir Zeki
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999
ISBN 0 19850519

Title: Observe the neurones: Between, above and below John Donne
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Times Literary Supplement, Septemeber 22, 2006
URL: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3712522.ece

Title: The Integration of colour and motion by the human visual brain
Author: Matthew W. Self and Semir Zeki
Publisher: Cerebral Cortex 2005 15(8):1270-1279
URL: http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/15/8/1270

Title: Neural Concept Formation and Art: Dante, Michaelangelo, Wagner
Author: Semir Zeki
Publisher: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 9, Number 3, 2002 , pp. 53-76(24)
URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2002/00000009/00000003/1262

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

Producer

Natasha Mitchell/Anita Barraud


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