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Current Projects:
+revolutionary crowds
+performance
+noise/machine drawing
+laughing monk
+emergence
+women in science
+cascade structure
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Current research in perception science creates new opportunities for the
brain to study itself through artworks. Our general title, Before Recognition,
expresses the preconscious character of the principal phenomena that interest us,
processes that are tacit, taken for granted, or subliminal. The purpose of each
of the installations comprising Before Recognition is to give observers both
something to see (an art object), and the opportunity to become aware of their own
perceptual processes (an experimental setup). Recent work in the psychology of
perception has disaggregated aspects of experience that we ordinarily take as
inseparable; shown how much in our perception is not actually perceived, but
inferred or imagined; and brought to light the physical constraints that shape our
sense of the world.
Before Recognition will produce novel art installations that will stimulate viewers
to become aware of how their brains process perceptual input and will stimulate
scientists to learn more about how the brain processes visual art.
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