Thursday, September 10, 2009

SESSION 1: Building Blocks of Perception

Entrance Gallery

Moderated by Kristina Visscher (Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

• Bevil Conway (Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Science and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Wellesley College) "Color" (Watch Conway's overview here .)
• Jeffrey M. Zacks (Associate Professor and Director of the Dynamic Cognition Laboratory, Washington University St. Louis) "Time: Finoglia’s Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife" (Watch Zacks' overview here.)
• Gedi Sibony (Artist, New York)

SESSION 2: Light and Darkness

Cube Gallery

Moderated by Francesca Herndon-Consagra (Senior Curator, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis)

• Stephan Wolohojian (Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator; Head of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge) "Our Thinking behind the Installation of Gold-Ground Paintings"
• Ian Kennedy (Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City) "The Connoisseur’s Perception"
• Larry Snyder (Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis) "Attentional Capture" (Watch Snyder's overview here.)

Friday, September 11, 2009

SESSION 3: Mediated Perception and the Visual System

Main Gallery

Moderated by Bevil Conway

• Judy Mann (Co-Curator of the Exhibition and Curator of European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum) "Curatorial Practice as Part of the Visual Education of the Viewer"
• Simon Kelly, (Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City) "From Collective/Sociable to Individual/Personal Viewing in the History of French Salons" (Watch Kelly's overview here. )
• Kristina Visscher "Modulation of Visual Experience" (Watch Visscher's overview here. )

SESSION 4: Stories and the Engagement of the Viewer

Lower Main Gallery

Moderated by Lisa Harper Chang (Manager of Community Engagement, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis)

• Malcolm Warner (Deputy Director, Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth) "Museum without Words: Visual Dialogues" (Watch Warner's overview here.)
• Salvador Salort-Pons (Associate Curator of European Paintings, Detroit Institute of Arts) "Counter-Reformatory Strategies of Engagement" (Watch Salort-Pons' overview here.)
• Agnes Wilcox (Artistic Director, Prison Performing Arts, St. Louis) “Staging Old Masters: Former Prisoners Perform at the Pulitzer"