• OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer Observer Effects / Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLeslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others / Image courtesy of the artist Leslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer
  • TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTSJohn D. Barrow : Better than a Thousand Words / Image from Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science ohn D. Barrow : Better than a Thousand Words / Image from <em>Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science </em>
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist Jonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLeslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others / Image courtesy of the artist Leslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJohn D. Barrow : Better than a Thousand Words / Image courtesy of the artist John D. Barrow : Better than a Thousand Words / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist Jonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist
  • TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTSJohn D. Barrow : Better than a Thousand Words / Image from Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science ohn D. Barrow : Better than a Thousand Words / Image from <em>Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science </em>
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist Jonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKJonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist Jonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour / Image courtesy of the artist
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer
  • OBSERVER EFFECTS: TALKLisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy / Image courtesy of Christina Lammer

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.

Curator: Emily Berçir Zimmerman

Talks are always FREE.


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John Barrow: Better than a Thousand Words

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6 PM

Famed physicist Barrow will discuss the observer effects principle and the impact of images on the development of science throughout history.

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Jonathan Sterne: MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour

Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 6 PM

McGill University professor Jonathan Sterne offers a history of digital media through the MP3 format and its impact on the meaning of hearing.

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Leslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 6 PM

Rockefeller University neuroscientist Vosshall gives an in-depth presentation on the origins and complexities of smell and its impact on our behavior.

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Lisa Cartwright and Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 6 PM

A multimedia screening, performance, and lecture exploring what the senses experience in the austere environment of surgery.


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