Parallel Worlds is a free public online experience designed by the Convergence Initiative in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). The experience encompasses a series of events that use the museum's collection to share neuroscience and fine arts knowledge about visual perception with the public.
From April to August of 2021, the experience features three monthly events that include a permanent virtual tour of artworks selected for their scientific, historical, technical and aesthetic value. A live online colloquium where a neuroscientist and a volunteer art guide discuss a topic related to one aspect of vision, colour and art. And an online art-science workshop linked to the colloquium. Each online session will be live broadcast on Zoom and other social media platforms. We hope to bring a diverse audience together to explore the advances in visual neuroscience and the impact and influence of art on those advances.
Parallel Worlds is supported by the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program (BRaIN) of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts, The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN), and a Knowledge Mobilization grant from McGill University's Healthy Brain, Healthy Lives Program (HBHL).
Date
COLLOQUIUMS
Speakers
24 April, 2021
Saturday
5:30 PM EST
A World without Color
Patrick Cavanagh
& Marie-José Daoust
(Disorders in the Perception of Color)
15 May, 2021
Saturday
1:00 PM EST
The Color of Passion
Dwaynica Greaves
& Louise Gauvreau
(Color as a Social Construct)
19 June, 2021
Saturday
1:00 PM EST
Poisoned by Color
Oskar Gonzalez
& Christiane Hudon
(Neurotoxicity and Dyes)
13 August, 2021
Friday
5:30 PM EST
A Fluorescent Ghost
Melina Garcia
& Madeleine Colaco
(The Use of Fluorescent Molecules in Neuroscience)
Date
WORKSHOPS
Speakers
02 May, 2021
Sunday
2:00 PM EST
A World without Color
Bettina Forget
(Disorders in the Perception of Color)
23 May, 2021
Sunday
2:00 PM EST
The Color of Passion
Darian Goldin Stahl
(Color as a Social Construct)
24 July, 2021
Saturday
2:00 PM EST
Pareidolia: Dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity as a source of idea generation
Antoine Bellemare Pepin
(Vision and Creativity)
21 August, 2021
Saturday
2:00 PM EST
Color as a Tool
Jihane Mossalim
(Making the unseen visible)
