Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
No tickets required.

Seating is available on first come, first served basis.

This conference has been organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, on the occasion of the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Part of a series of events held in collaboration with MoMA and Olafur Eliasson Studio, this event will bring together scholars doing some of the most creative and thought-provoking work related to color and the brain.

Schedule

10:00-10:30
Coffee

10:30-10:45
Welcome: Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP, Columbia University
Introduction: Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Opening Remarks: Jeannie Kim, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, GSAPP, Columbia University

10:45-11:30
Jonathan Crary, Art History Department, Columbia University
Brian Greene, Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Columbia University

11:30-12:00
Respondent: Olafur Eliasson, Artist

12:00-1:30
Lunch Break

1:30-3:30
David Eagleman, Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine
Robert Shapley, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Prieeni Sundaralingam, Poet/cognitive scientist
Aniruddha Das, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University

3:30-3:45
Break

3:45-4:15
Respondent: Steven Holl, Architect, GSAPP, Columbia University

Related Events

April 18, 2008
6-8 P.M.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York

This Friday-evening session will feature Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, Department of Media, and Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, organizers of the exhibition; Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; and Olafur Eliasson, in conversation with Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP, Columbia
University.

For tickets and event details, please visit www.moma.org/thinkmodern.

Made possible by the Dana Foundation.





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