The Colors of the Brain Part 2: Conference

Saturday, April 19, 2008, 10:00 am -5:00 pm

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

No tickets required.

This conference has been organized by the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, on the occasion of the
exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson at The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Part of a series of events held in collaboration with MoMA and Olafur
Eliasson Studio, this event will bring together scholars doing some of the
most creative and thought-provoking work related to color and the brain.

Mark Wigley
Dean, GSAPP, Columbia University

Barry Bergdoll
Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Jonathan Crary
Art History Department, Columbia University

Brian Greene
Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Columbia
University

David Eagleman
Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine

Robert Shapley
Center for Neural Science, New York University

Pireeni Sundaralingam
Poet/cognitive scientist

Aniruddha Das
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University

Steven Holl
Architect, Columbia University

Olafur Eliasson
Artist