MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Presents Symposium
2014.9.26 - 27
MIT
Art, science, and technology are ways of knowing and changing the world. These disciplines frequently draw from each other yet their devoted practitioners rarely have the opportunity for high-level intellectual and cultural exchange.
Seeing / Sounding / Sensing is an intensive two-day event at MIT that invites creative artists to join with philosophers, cognitive neuroscientists, anthropologists, historians, and scholars from a range of disciplines in an open-ended discussion about knowledge production. The goal is to challenge each domain’s conventional certainty about “what is known,” “how we know it,” or “how we can know more,” and to stimulate new issues for possible cross-disciplinary scholarship in the future.
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Seeing – Color
Friday, September 26, 2014 | 2:00 – 5:00pm
Media Lab E14-674
The visual pathway has been mapped more comprehensively than almost any other perceptual process. Given vision’s privileged status in forming knowledge (“I see”), science has considerable confidence that we are beginning to “know how we know.” But if we focus on a single aspect of sight – proprioceptive sight, or so-called “blindsight,” or color, or synesthesia, or the plasticity of mind that takes haptic signals and “remaps” them onto the visual cortex – we encounter much more complicated terrain. Artists are tireless empiricists when it comes to visual cognition; this session puts them in discussion with scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers to engage new questions about sight, beginning with color.
Moderator: Caroline Jones, Professor of Art History, Theory & Criticism, MIT
Participants:
Tauba Auerbach, Artist
Bevil Conway, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Wellesley College
Bruno Latour Keynote
Friday, September 26, 2014 | 5:00–7:00pm
Media Lab E14-674
Immanuel Kant founded a philosophy on the notion of a “common sense.” Through sensory experience we would slowly accumulate knowledge of the world, and in sharing it, form human culture. But is there a common sense, or merely convention established through language? Does science form a genuinely alternative way of knowing the world, or merely establish different practices for describing it? In his philosophy and sociology of science, Bruno Latour has established a profound social difference between “matters of fact” that science can produce and “matters of concern” that communities of non-scientists agree on.
Bruno Latour, Professor, Sciences Po Paris
Introduction: David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT
Commentary: Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Sounding – Resonance
Saturday, September 27, 2014 | 9:30am–noon
Media Lab E14-674
Metaphorically, in English we “sound out” an idea, a person, or a vessel – sonic explorations of subjectivity or tests of worth. That “resonance” has extensive cultural and cognitive significance. How do we know what we hear? How do we know what is inside our heads and what is outside? Following on the previous day’s session on color, which asked about the relation between the subjective, objective, mathematical, and intersubjective apprehension of color, this session asks about the quality of sound as experience. What is the relation between auditory perception and hallucination? What are the boundaries of hearing? Why does it matter, and to whom? Engaging music and noise, artists and live musicians, installations and recordings, computation and human sensory capacities, acousmata and precise directional signals, this session will explore the ethical and aesthetic components of sound, and why “noise” of many kinds is so central to scientific exploration and the human arts.
Moderator: Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, MIT
Participants:
Alvin Lucier, John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
Mara Mills, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Josh McDermott, Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Alex Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University
Sensing – Actions
Saturday, September 27, 2014 | 2:00–5:00pm
Media Lab E14-674
For many scientists, “sensing” is the final endpoint of numerous pathways of cognition; for philosophers, it has often been the first step in the process of reason itself. Current debates center on whether neuroscience can understand cognition if the subject is constituted through an ongoing negotiation with stimulus grasped by a moving and active body, in which one signal is constantly checked against another, rather than the long-cherished binaries of excitation/inhibition, push/pull, or on/off. In short, some theorists assert that much thinking goes on outside the skull. This session will explore the scientific and cultural basis for prodigious feats of muscle memory, bodily thinking, on-the-spot decision making, and human action.
Moderator: Natasha Schüll, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Participants:
Alva Noë, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Tomás Saraceno, Artist
Leila Kinney, Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and the Center for Art, Science & Technology, MIT
Evening Performance
Saturday, September 27, 2014 | 7:00pm
Media Lab E14-674
Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room, performed by Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier, In Memoriam Jon Higgins, performed by Evan Ziporyn
Arnold Dreyblatt, Turntable History, performed by Arnold Dreyblatt
Alvin Lucier, John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
Evan Ziporyn, Faculty Director and Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music, MIT
Arnold Dreyblatt, Professor of Media Art, Muthesius Academy of Art and Design
About MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology
The Center for Art, Science & Technology (MIT CAST) facilitates and creates opportunities for exchange and collaboration among artists, engineers, and scientists. A joint initiative of the Office of the Provost, the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) and School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), the Center is committed to fostering a culture where the arts, science and technology thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge and discovery.
CAST’s activities include:
Curricula
• soliciting and supporting cross-disciplinary curricular initiatives that integrate the arts into the core curriculum and create new artistic work or materials, media and technologies for artistic expression
Residencies
• spearheading a Visiting Artists program that emphasizes creative process, extensive interaction with MIT faculty, students and researchers, and cross-fertilization among disciplines
Support
• assisting in the presentation and curation of performing and visual arts or design relevant to the research of engineers, scientists, and the MIT community as a whole
Programs
• disseminating the creative and intellectual production supported by the Center to the public through performances, exhibitions, installations, and a biennial symposium
Research
• supporting graduate students and postdoctoral researchers whose work advances the mission of the Center
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