JATKUVA Conversation 1: Neuroesthetics- Will the artist become extinct? Tuesday 24.2. 18-20 @ KuvA
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14.00 Preparatory session (KUVA doctoral space, 2nd floor)
18.00 Lecture (KUVA 5th floor seminar room)
Elvira Brattico (PhD, Neuroaesthetics of Music Group, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki)
Pia Tikka (PhD, Filmmaker-Researcher, NeuroCine)
Reading, Pia Tikka (2008) Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense
Neuroscience has provided insights about the workings of the brain to a degree unimaginable just a few decades ago. Applications and implications of neuroscience have extended with profound effect to areas such as computer science, psychology, sociology, medicine, education and philosophy of mind. In the study of arts, experimental approaches to aesthetics have seen a fresh revival since the introduction of the methods of neuroscience.
The humanist tradition has regarded empirical viewpoints to art with suspicion. Paths leading to positivist or reductionist notions of art would generally be considered no-go by the arts community. But will neuroaesthetics change all that? Will matters of taste be revealed, after all, as matters of natural science? Will the mysteries of creativity be unmasked as simple neurological functions? Will, in the end of the day, the artists become extinct?
In the first talk of the JATKUVA conversation series we will have an introduction to the field of neuroaesthetics by Research Director, Ph.D. Elvira Brattico, Neuroaesthetics of Music Group in University of Helsinki and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She will be followed by Filmmaker and Researcher, Ph.D. Pia Tikka who will present her artistic and research projects in enactive cinema and brain research. The event will then continue as an open discussion between all present.
JATKUVA Conversations are organised by doctoral students at the Academy of Fine Arts, part of the University of the Arts Helsinki, through their subject association Jatkuva ry. The neuroaesthetics session will be introduced by doctoral student Jaakko Rustanius.
JATKUVA conversation series
A series of conversations on a variety of contemporary issues brought forth by the doctoral students at the Academy of Fine Arts
Once a month a situation for conversation is arranged with one or two invited speakers from a wide range of academic, artistic and professional backgrounds briefly outlining their perspectives on a selected topic, then opening up the discussion to the group. The meetings will be held in an informal setting and promote a free exchange of views, ideas and opinions.
The main aim of the series is to open up artistic practice and inquiry to unconventional approaches at the convergence of differing perspectives from arts, philosophy, humanities, science, politics and society.
Prior to each session, a warm-up session will be held at the Academy for students to meet and familiarize with materials suggested by the speakers.
UPCOMING
24.3. Experimental writing (working title)
Nickel van Duijvenboden (NL)
Taina Riikonen (FI)
21.4.Globalization of contemporary art (TBC)
19.5. Object oriented ontology
Paavo Järvensivu (FI)
Karoliina Lummaa (FI)
Location: Kuva (Doctoral space 2nd floor, Seminar space 5th floor)
The series will be in English.