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PhD student Sarah Schwettmann explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains.

3 Questions: Sarah Schwettmann on the interface between art and neuroscience

The MIT PhD student explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains. Computational neuroscientist Sarah Schwettmann is one of three instructors behind the cross-disciplinary course 9.S52/9.S916 Vision in Art and Neuroscience, which introduces students to … Continued

Vision in Neuroscience and Art. Students conduct visual experiments. Credit: Seth Riskin.

Q&A with Seth Riskin

Seth Riskin, SM ’89, came to MIT in 1986 to coach the women’s gymnastics team, before applying to the graduate program in Visual Studies at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), then under the direction of German artist Otto … Continued

Installation View, Anicka Yi: 6,070,430K of Digital Spit at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Photo: Peter Harris Studio.

A ‘freer world,’ under your nose: Anicka Yi’s olfactory art

“A sense of smell was my portal to a freer world as a child. I prefer to smell someone’s sweater that’s been on the body than to look at a picture of that person,” explains CAST Visiting Artist Anicka Yi. … Continued

Hand-written text and a diagram of a human head from a historic document.

Seeing/ Sounding/ Sensing: CAST Symposium in Context

On September 26-27, CAST is convening artists, neuroscientists and scholars in the visual arts, music, physics, mathematics, history, anthropology and philosophy to participate in the symposium “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing.” Organized by MIT Professors Caroline A. Jones (Chair) and … Continued

Eight images of brain scans with varying levels of blue, red, green, and yellow.

Q&A: Caroline Jones on Cognitive Neuroscience and the Arts

Caroline A. Jones is a Professor of Art History in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. She studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. … Continued

Art And Neuroscience Articles

3 Questions: Sarah Schwettmann on the interface between art and neuroscience

Q&A with Seth Riskin

A ‘freer world,’ under your nose: Anicka Yi’s olfactory art

Seeing/ Sounding/ Sensing: CAST Symposium in Context

Q&A: Caroline Jones on Cognitive Neuroscience and the Arts