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...movie is a mix of action, comedy, policier, and of course, romance. Many movies try to cross genre boundaries to reach a larger audience, and Morel is no exception. But his approach is confused, and given the seriousness of one thematic element it tries to weave in—that of terrorism and suicide bombings—that confusion proves detrimental to the film as a whole...
...perception into an artistic study or use scientific findings to explain some of the fundamental principles that underlie works of art. The Vision Sciences Laboratory, located in William James Hall and run by a group of psychology professors, explores this very chiasm in their experiments—though their approach is slightly different than Livingstone?...
...might think that the Vision Lab works on the software more than the hardware,” says Patrick Cavanagh, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the lab. Diverging from Livingstone’s approach, which Cavanagh relates to disassembling an Xbox to figure out what’s going on inside, the Vision Sciences Laboratory conducts tests on individual subjects in order to ascertain when and how their powers of perception fall short. By presenting subjects with pictures, actions, and events, the researchers hone in—be it through brain scanning or more simple tests of visual...
Cavanagh’s own research, which takes the same approach, has led him to a number of discoveries about an “alternative physics” operating in representational artworks. Impossible shadows, reflections, and contours number among the artistic flaws surveyed in an article Cavanagh wrote for the science journal “Nature” entitled “Artists as Neuroscientists.” “Artists use this alternative physics because these particular deviations from true physics do not matter to the viewer,” he writes. “The artists...
Indeed, some are less convinced of the merits of the scientific approach to artistic interpretation. “There’s a methodological problem at the core of the entire approach, and it has to do with consciousness and subconsciousness,” says Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture. “What are you testing? What is your primary material? All these people [researchers] start with vocal response from their test persons. If you develop ideas about how art works on us then you determine that art must work on us in a certain...