Convergence
Convergence SciArt ArtSci Talk.
While art and the humanities remain accessible to non-experts (almost everybody can read Shakespeare or listen to the fifth symphony), science in its pure form remains hard to understand. For someone outside the field, reading a scientific paper in a peer-reviewed journal will feel much like trying to decipher an encrypted message: The article’s findings will be hidden behind an uninviting format full of scientific jargon and hard-to-grasp statistics. In a time when we begin to recognize the power of interdisciplinarity, this issue is becoming one of the major setbacks when it comes to building bridges between artists, scientists and humanists. In this context, Sinapsis: Conexiones entre el arte y tu cerebro (SYNAPSE: Connections between art and your brain) is a science broadcasting project conceived by neuroscientist Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez that aims to share recent and relevant studies around cognitive neuroscience of art. By broadcasting scientific information to the general public through youtube videos and social media, it aims to fuel scientific curiosity and to facilitate transdisciplinary exchanges around the subject of the brain, creativity and art.
The Convergence Sci-Art/Art-Sci Conferences series focus on the crossover of disciplines with science, especially arts and communication. The talks cover subjects like the influence of media on modern science, the public perception of the scientific method, neuroscience popular misconceptions, architecture and biology in the medical practice, or science immersed artistic practice.
Convergence, Perceptions of Neuroscience is an independent initiative developed in partnership with the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program of the RI-MUHC and Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts. It is supported by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, and the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.
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