BRAINWAVE: COMMON SENSE EVENTS
Joseph Ledoux - The Amygdaloids
Friday, February 29, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Pioneering researcher Joseph LeDoux, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor
of Science at NYU's Center for Neural Science and the director of the
Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety conducts a walk-through
of BrainWave: Common Senses, discussing brain- related issues along the
way. His band The Amygdaloids plays afterwards.
Hypnotism and the Hidden Language of Radio Theater
Friday, March 14, 6-7 p.m.
Informal lecture by Raphael Lyon
Fifty years ago, the development of Radio Theater froze in its tracks.
What would film look like today if it never progressed beyond the first
few single-point
perspective silent shorts? Conversely, what would sound-only narratives
look like if they had the time to develop the complex narrative codes
we take for granted in any B movie?
Lyon will talk about his groundbreaking research into the underlying
language of "Dark Cinema," sound only narratives which include Radio
Theater. This revolutionary approach to the semiotics of sound
parallels the development of the subject and the object in visual
cinema through the use of the gaze and the ability to "see someone
looking," but replaces it with something profoundly different.
In Dark Cinema, “the gaze” must be replaced with an alternate that does
not require the impossible ability to "hear someone listening." Lyon's
ideas about Dark Cinema, based on the theories of hypnotism and trance
induction, break down the conventional visual theories of how one
creates narrative through point of view, movement, etc., and builds a
new one for sound.
Hypnosis-Opuses
Friday, March 14, 7-10 p.m.
Exit Art presents a night of sound art that explores hypnosis and
trance. The event features Zach Layton’s real-time sound manipulation
of an electroencephalograph (EEG), Wind-Up Bird’s quadraphonic drone
meditations, and Raphael Lyon’s hour-long "cinema-in-the-dark"
hypno-drama, Psicklops. Lyon's work, Psicklops, will be presented in a
darkened room. Audience members will be asked to sit or lie down for
the duration of the piece. Free
Matt Mullican
Wednesday, April 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Artist Matt Mullican screens a video of his performances
made while under hypnosis and discusses his work in relation to
perception, the subconscious, and his personal cosmology of symbols.
Concurrent with the artist’s presentation in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Free.
Kent and Kevin Young
Friday, April 11, 6:30 - 8pm
A Monozygotic Experiment Using Telepathic Conveyance
Los Angeles-based artists Kent and Kevin Young will make a
‘painting’ by trying to solve a crossword puzzle from clues
telepathically sent from one twin brother to the other.
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