‘One’-Page Sci-Fi Book Club
Saturday, May 21 from 3-5 PM ET
Zoom
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How do we (humans) process the information our senses provide to us? How does that in turn shape and constrain the kinds of thoughts we can have and the concepts we are able to comprehend? Finally, what does that have to do with making and experiencing art? In this program, we will use a chapter from the phenomenology text Action in Perception by Alva Noë to frame discussions of short excerpts from science fiction novels. These excerpts are examples of either regular people in physically exotic environments or non-humans experiencing physically familiar (to us) environments. Come talk about the limits and potentials of us humans to understand the world and each other!
Brooklyn-based painter Michele Abramowitz (b. 1984, CA) works in oil on polyester canvas. She uses gessoed and un-gessoed surfaces to explore the material and spatial effects of paint in abstract compositions. Her paintings often reference themes of the future-as-history, psychology, and confrontation. She graduated from the Milton-Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard (MFA, Painting, 2017), Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, Painting, 2010), and Pomona College (BA, Neuroscience, 2006).