{"id":7427,"date":"2013-03-27T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T09:55:15","slug":"ludovica-lumer-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/ludovica-lumer-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludovica Lumer, talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>nctm e l\u2019arte <\/em>will host Ludovica Lumer, a scholar of Neuro-aesthetics at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Ludovica\nwill speak, among other things, of <em>La bella e la bestia<\/em>, her latest\nbook, which represents a reinterpretation of contemporary art from the\nperspective of the human nervous system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spectacular\nadvances over the past twenty years have made it easier to study the activity\nof the human brain. With this has come a radical departure in the scientific\nquestions asked about the brain and indeed in our view of its functioning. We\nhave come to understand that the brain is not a passive chronicler of what\nhappens in the external world but an active participant in combining physical\nreality with genetic and epigenetic determinants of brain function to create\nthe world that we experience. At the same time, questions that once seemed too\nremote have started to receive answers from neuroscientific enquiries, for\ninstance concerning the neural correlates of love, desire and beauty, or the\nneural determinants of identity, empathy and social interactions. In addressing\nsuch questions, neuroesthetics has evolved as an important methodological tool\nand has come to play an important role in the study of how the brain actively\nconstructs our experience of the world and of our inner state of being Initial\nforays in neuroaesthetics took inspiration from classical art, in particular\nfrom the impressionists and early twenty century artists such as Mondrian, to\ndesign new experimental paradigms addressing questions related to the constancy\nof colour and object perception. More recently, neuroaesthetics has connected\nwith contemporary art to provide a guiding framework within which to study the\nneural basis of experience in all its complexity. The constant change that\ndrives us and the world surrounding us has shaped our nervous system in such a\nway that, through art, it is able to extract a kind of stability from what is\nnot stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will explore together how the search, perhaps unattainable, for this stability has pushed the human brain, since the origins of history, towards artistic creation, becoming the very protagonist of contemporary art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nctm e l\u2019arte will host Ludovica Lumer, a scholar of Neuro-aesthetics at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[365],"tags":[397,358],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nctmelarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}