How We See Art & How Artists Make It: Stephen Grossberg

Join the Boston University Arts Initiative for the inaugural BU Interdisciplinary Arts Lecture with Professor Stephen Grossberg, one of the leading pioneers and current research leaders in explaining how our brains give rise to our minds. Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, theoretical and computational psychologist, neuroscientist, mathematician, biomedical engineer, and neuromorphic technologist.

Grossberg and his colleagues have developed the most advanced neural models of how our brains consciously see. In this lecture, Grossberg will discuss how different artists and artistic movements generate easily identifiable works because of their different emphases, illustrated with paintings by 11 different artists. The talk will also provide an introduction to the brain processes that make the paintings look the way that they do.

A post-event reception will be held with light refreshments.