"How Do We See? How Can We Visualize?"
Donald Hoffman and Martin Wattenberg in Dialogue
Friday, March 6, 2009
Noon - 1:45 p.m.
Social Sciences Building (SOS), Room 250
Lunch provided. No RSVP required.
Donald Hoffman and Martin Wattenberg will discuss the interface between the cognitive neurological processes of vision and creative strategies for visualization. What happens when inborn “visual intelligence” meets the new modes of visualization made possible by new media? How might visualization techniques reshape how we see and what we know?
Donald D. Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine, and author of the book, Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See. His research focuses on visual perception, consciousness and the mind-body problem, virtual reality and cognitive science. He holds a Ph.D. in computational psychology from MIT.
Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and artist, known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. He is the founding manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.