artist bios
Karima Afghoul
Karima Afghoul is a second-year undergraduate BFA student in Design at Concordia University. She mainly focuses on graphic design as she tries to approach the practice with a more sustainable perspective. Karima has also a good amount of experience in social media design as well as branding. As she explores different areas of design, she started dabbling in web and user experience design which allows her to create more user-centric and holistic designs. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in nature and finding new brunch spots in the city.
John Mendoza
John Mendoza is primarily a graphic designer but has interests in venturing in other areas of design. He is particularly interested in the collaborative nature of design and its link in all fields, which compelled him to pursue higher education. Today, he is currently studying Design at Concordia University as an undergrad while working as a visual communication lab coordinator where he oversees the many talented students and their projects to provide support ranging from technical to conceptual.
Ursula J'vlyn d'Ark
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)
