The Eye's Mind

Olivia Parker, Sean O’Neill, Bevil Conway, Rosamond Purcell

Sunday, October 6, 2019, 2–3:30 pm

Lesley College of Art + Design
University Hall Auditorium, 2-150
1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 

Offered in partnership with PEM, Lesley College of Art + Design and Catalyst Conversations

This renowned panel of artists and experts considered and debated issues surrounding vision, perception, photography and science. They asked questions such as, has the history of photography influenced our reasoning? How do scientific ideas evolve? How do we represent ideas and the impact of science? How do we make sense of the world around us and in us? This discussion was convened in conjunction with the exhibition Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem through November 11. 

Panelists included Olivia Parker; photographer Rosamond Purcell; neuroscientist/artist Bevil Conway; and historian Sean O’Neil. Deborah Davidson, director of Catalyst Conversations, moderates.

Image: Olivia Parker, Nattering Things, 2016. Inkjet print. © Olivia Parker