The Pink Mirror, F2016

CSCM-315-01
CalArts' School of Critical Studies
Main Building, F200
W 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Professor Douglas Goodwin
Office hours by appointment
dgoodwin@calarts.edu

What is done by what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in me. —James Clerk Maxwell

How does perception make sense of the world? How is the sensation of light and sound rendered into recognizable imagery? How does imagery act on us? And how can images change our physiology? We will proceed by studying apparent failures in perception: optical illusions, magic tricks and mirror box therapies designed to ease pain from amputated limbs. We conclude with an appraisal of computerized tomography (CT) scans, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and other data-imaging technologies.

modules

1. introductions
2. waveforms
3. realism
4. sense data
5. intentionality of perception
6. content or no content
7. information in pictures
8. subjectivity of experience
9. disjunctivism
10. active perception
11. touch and smell
12. unconscious perception