Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics

February 03, 2010 |

Discovering Art and Science Lecture Series
New Discussion Series!
Spotlight with Gary Vikan, Ed Connor, and Cornel Rubino:

Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics

Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2:00 p.m.
Price: Members free; non-members $10; students $5; Pre-registration recommended
Location: Graham Auditorium at the Walters Art Museum

Why do some works of art appeal so strongly to the human mind? Are artists really neuroscientists, trying to discover new and powerful ways to stimulate perceptual mechanisms in the brain? Drs. Vikan and Ed Connor will discuss the dynamic collaboration between the Walters and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, pioneering a new approach to the neural basis of the aesthetic experience, while Cornel Rubino’s artistic sensibility will provide a poignant counterpoint to the conversation.

Ed Connor, Associate Professor in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience of the Johns Hopkins University
Cornel Rubino, Artist. Regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine and numerous other publications;lecturer, Fine Arts
and Frontiers departments, Goucher College
Gary Vikan, Director of the Walters Art Museum