• OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJames Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University / Image courtesy of the artist James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKRobert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process / Image courtesy of the artist Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJames Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University / Image courtesy of the artist James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKRobert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process / Image courtesy of the artist Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process / Image courtesy of the artist

Observer Effects

Observer Effects invites thinkers to present their highly integrative work in dialogue with the fields of art and science. This lecture series takes its title from a popularized principle in physics that holds that the act of observation transforms the observed. Outside the natural sciences, the idea that the observer and the observed are linked in a web of reciprocal modification has been deeply influential in philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, and politics.

All Observer Effects talks are FREE


James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011, 6 PM | Studio 2

In this interdisciplinary lecture, renowned art historian James Elkins will discuss the differential role images play across the departments of a university.

Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011, 6 PM | Theater

Robert Lue, Harvard director of life sciences education and founder of BioVisions, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in science and education research.


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