Habitus in Habitat II. Other Sides of Cognition
In Cooperation with:
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Institut für Künstlerische Forschung
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
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Association of Neuroesthetics
Other Sides of Cognition - Second conference in the series Habitus in Habitat
This conference will address the other sides of cognition, that is, those aspects not yet focused on as such by brain research – such as ‘twilight’ or scansion phenomena of consciousness, states of boredom or meaninglessness, and spectrums of empathy. Drawing attention to these nuances of cognition, Other Sides of Cognition will specifically attempt to shed light on how the knowledge surrounding cognition can address forms and figurations of cultural and social understanding.
Program
Thursday, 19 November 2009
9:30 Conference Opening
Sabine Flach (ZfL), Arno Villringer (School of Mind and Brain), Ryan Cordell (Charité), Jan Söffner (ZfL)
10:0-12:00 Phenomenologies of Cognition (Chair: Jörg Fingerhut)
Alva Noë (Berkeley): The Aesthetics of Cognition
Marc Jeannerod (Lyon): Action, Body and Consciousness
David Freedberg (New York): Painting and the Other Side of Consciousness
13:00-14:30 Twilight Zones (Chair: Thomas Eller)
Daniel S. Margulies (Berlin) / Felicity Callard (London): The Subject at Rest
Jan Slaby (Marburg): A Proposal for the Study of (Existential) Feelings. The Case of Boredom
15:00-16:30
Holger Schulze (Berlin): The Generativity of Boredom. Morton Feldman, Aphex Twin, and Einstürzende Neubauten
Sabine Flach (Berlin): On Twilight
17:00-19:00 Disruptions (Chair: Uta Kornmeier)
Steffen Schneider (Tübingen): Texts on Drugs – Towards a Phenomenology and Epistemology of Literary Intoxication
Kirsten Kramer (Erlangen): Phantasms of the Mind. On Memory and Dream Perception in Early Modern Poetry
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Lille): Plural Minds and Turing machines
19:30 Opening: Enception
An international photo exhibition, organized by Ryan Cordell, introduction by Thomas Schnalke, Sabine Flach, and Ulrich Dirnagl
Friday, 20 November 2009
10:00-12:00 Habituations (Chair: Sabine Flach)
Yvonne Wübben (Berlin): Accommodation. Peripheral Response in Late 19th Century Physiology
Isabelle Moffat (Berlin): Neuroplasticity avant la lettre
Hans-Christian von Herrmann (Jena): A Setting of Frameworks and Attitudes. Aleksej Gastev's Conception of Proletarian Culture
13:30-15:00 Cognitive Mediations (Chair: Martin Treml)
Harold Schweizer (Bucknell): Writing in the Shade. A Meditation on Tone
Jan Söffner (Berlin): What Is It Like to Be With Bats? Some Thoughts on Jean Painlevé
15:30-17:00
Michael Pauen (Berlin): Beyond Consciousness. The Other Side of Social Cognition
Sigrid Weigel (Berlin): Compassio. A Christian Pathos Formula and the corpus communis
17:30-19.00 Modern Brains (Chair: Margarete Vöhringer)
Warren Neidich (Berlin): Neuropower
Jörg Thomas Richter (Berlin): Semblant Experimentation. On James Mark Baldwin's Genetic Aesthetics
19:30 Art Presentation: Brain Study
by Julian Klein (Berlin)
Saturday, 21 November 2009
9:30-11.30 Modern Souls (Chair: Justus Fetscher)
Fabienne Liptay (München): The Limits of Control. Understanding Cinema Beyond Signs and Meanings
Gerhard Scharbert (Berlin): Cognitio animi experimentalis – Intoxication, Hallucination, Imagination, and Modernity
12:00-14:00 Flows of Meaning – Flows without Meaning (Chair: Ryan Cordell)
Ida Momennejad (Berlin): Remembering the Future with a Brain. On Intending What Is Not Done Yet
Armin Schäfer (Berlin): Interruptions. Stories of the Falling Sickness
Cornelia Müller (Frankfurt/Oder): Cognition and Emotion Embodied in the Flow of Discourse
15:00-17:00 Artistic Interplays (Chair: Alex Arteaga)
Nicolas de Oliveira & Nicola Oxley (London): We Were Never Being Boring. Between Concentration and Inattention
Cornelius Borck (Lübeck): Surfing on the Sea of Brain Waves. The EEG in Art Practice
Julian Klein (Berlin): The Other Side of the Frame. Artistic Experience as Felt Cognition
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