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Melvin Moti

Observer Effects

Conversations on Art + Science
2010—2013
EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

Observer Effects invites thinkers to present their highly integrative work in dialogue with the fields of art and science. This series of talks 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.

Main Image: Melvin Moti in the theater in 2012. Photo: EMPAC/Rensselaer.

Event Type
Discipline
Science

Season

Curator
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7PM
Music/Sound, Talk
Mark Changizi, Johannes Goebel, & David Rothenberg
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 6pm
Talk
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 6pm
Talk
Visual Practices Across the University
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 6PM
Talk
Splashing Around in Art and Science from the Renaissance to Now
Wednesday, May 4 2011, at 6PM
Dance/Theater, Talk
Movement and Mirror Neurons: A Challenging and Choice Conversation
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 6PM
Film/Video, Talk
The Eye As I Can See
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 6PM
Talk
Art Fraud: Recognizing Authenticity in Art
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 6PM
Talk
Session: The Power of Networks
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 6PM
Talk
Better Than a Thousand Words
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 6PM
Talk
Philosophy and the Art of Dying
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 6PM
Talk
MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 6PM
Talk
Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6PM
Talk
See Me if You Can! Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at PM
Talk
Performing Technogenesis: The Affective Power of Digital Media
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 6PM
Talk
Software Archaeology. On the Resurrection of Programs for the Mark 1, 1948–58