Bond Life Sciences Center 2010 Symposium
From Art to Biology and Back Again
March 12 - 14, 2010
 From Art to Biology and Back Again will examine provocative new work arising from intersections between the life sciences and art - the biological contexts of our response to art and aesthetic contexts of our response to scientific visualizations, as well as twenty-first century art that has found inspiration at their convergence. In the process, the talks will inquire into the relationship between artistic and scientific invention. The symposium is free and open to the public. We hope you will join us. [download the pdf]
Keynote: Daniel Levitin (McGill University; Psychology) Neuroscientist, professional musician, and music journalist, Levitin is the winner of 14 gold or platinum records and author of the best-selling This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs.
Lisa Cartwright (UC San Diego; Communications) researches visual culture in science, health and medicine, with particular focus on sexuality and disability studies.Kathryn Coe (University of Arizona; College of Public Health; anthropologist) investigates the evolution of social behavior and culture, including art and kinship.
Ellen Dissanayake (University of Washington; School of Music) explores artmaking as a natural and necessary component of our evolved nature as humans.
Eduardo Kac (School of the Art Institute of Chicago; artist) creates hybrids of multiple media and biological processes. His “transgenic art” (such as his fluorescent rabbit Alba) opened a new direction for contemporary art.
Patricia Olynyk (Washington University; Director, Graduate School of Art; artist) combines art and biological artifacts to address our relationship to our environments and to our desire to control and manipulate our corporeal selves.
John Onians (University of East Anglia, UK; World Art Studies) has published on art history from prehistoric times to the present. His current work takes a neural approach to the creation of art and aesthetic theory.
Barbara Maria Stafford (University of Chicago; Art History) analyzes intersections between the visual arts and the sciences, and is currently exploring the neurosciences in relation to perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity.
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MU School of Medicine
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The Smith/Patterson Lecture Series, School of Journalism
MU School of Music
Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
MU Ellis Library
MU Museum of Art & Archeology
MU Department of English
Art in Health Care – University of Missouri Healthcare
MU Conference Office
Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Columbia
Columbia Art League
Perlow-Stevens Gallery
Ragtag Cinema Cafe
We Always Swing Jazz Series
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