“Art and the Brain” with Dr. V.S. Ramachandran
Tuesday, November 23
Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University
This is vintage Rama… bold, irreverent, original and ingenious!
~ David Hubel, Nobel Laureate
Ramachandran is a latter-day Marco Polo, journeying the silk road of science
to strange and exotic Cathays of the mind.
~Richard Dawkins
The Mind Science Foundation hosted Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, named by Newsweek magazine as a member of its exclusive Century Club, “the one hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century”, for his first visit ever to San Antonio. Dr. Ramachandran spoke on the topic of art and the brain (“The Artful Brain”) on Monday, November 22, 2004.
Dr. Ramachandran was included in Newsweek’s Century Club for his contributions to the neuroscience of consciousness. In 1999, He gave the Decade of the Brain address at the Society for Neuroscience Silver Jubilee. Laced with wit and humor, his address received a standing ovation from the 6,000 members in attendance.
Dr. Ramachandran is a distinguished physician, scientist and author of over 120 papers on topics such as “blindsight”, “synesthesia” and “phantom limb syndrome”. PBS and the BBC have produced programs focused on his groundbreaking work and Nova recently aired “Secrets of the Mind”, a documentary focused on his Sherlock Holmes style of solving difficult neurology cases.
His popular book “Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind” has been translated into eight languages. His more recent book, “The Emerging Mind”, captures the series of distinguished lectures he gave for the BBC and explores the evolutionary and causal relationships between the gift of sight, art and the development of the human mind.
Event Co-sponsors included: the San Antonio Museum of Art, the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, and the newly-formed Cultural Collaborative.