What makes us creative? How is creativity expressed in different forms of art? What is the brain basis of creativity? This talk explores the intersection of art and science through collaboration between a group of artists representing a range of different disciplines and neuroscience professor, Wendy Suzuki. Guest lecturers are neuroscientist Ed Vessel and visual artist Elias Wessel.
Wendy Suzuki, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the New York University Center for Neural Science and popular science communicator. She is the author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better.
Ed Vessel, Full Research Scientist at the Center for Brain Imaging, New York University 2014-2015 and since 2016 Research Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute in Frankfurt am Main for empirical Aesthetics.
Elias Wessel, Visual Artist studied Art History at the University of Heidelberg, Visual Communication at the University of Mannheim. He received his diploma in Fine Art Photography and Theory of Perception at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (HfG) in cooperation with the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. He is committed to developing photographic concepts and procedures which culminate in abstract images that reflect contemporary discourses within society.