Ohad Ben Shimon and Hamutal Meridor will deliver the following presentation at IMAGinE 2010 conference,Haifa, 8.1.2010 :
Topic : COGNITIVE / ART : Art, Cognition and Computational Science
By: Ohad Ben Shimon, Hamutal Merridor
As both former graduates of BSc studies in Cognitive Sciences at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, Hamutal Meridor (MSc, Cognitive Science & Natural Language Processing, The University of Edinburgh) and Ohad Ben Shimon (BSc, Cognitive Sciences, The Hebrew University and BA, Photography, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands) have decided to collaborate on developing an intersection between 2 seemingly un-related disciplines: Cognitive Science and Art. The way in which art works are perceived, analyzed and even created have much in common with cognitive mapping strategies and brain science infrastructure which in turn are being used more and more in today's information society and data visualization discourse. As such they intend to embark on a research period to further map out and understand the implication such a merging of disciplines in the realm of perception/vision has on the understanding of art, computational language and its associated implications within society at large.
The speakers will draw upon and discuss such notions as Computational Theory of Mind, The Hard Problem of Consciousness, and Meta-Representation forms of Reality.
Such examples from The Arts will include Marcel Duchamp' Urinal & Anemic Cinema, and Joseph Kosuth' One and Three Chairs. The speakers will claim in a slightly megalomaniac fashion that modern art' institutes, critics, writers and curators have completely misinterpreted Marcel Duchamp' work and by so doing have misinterpreted and misinformed modern art itself and its audience.
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