Eva LEE (ACC 2010) will present an Artist Talk on how she was inspired by affective neuroscience, the brain bases of emotions, meditation, and the nature of mind.

The event is dedicated to women who are troublemakers, and whose creative practice references science as a source of inspiration for writing, research, curating and art making. Through their work they question underlying assumptions about the world, how standard scientific processes and methodology which aspire to objectivity may instead be steeped in bias and discrimination, leading to flawed and inaccurate, entirely subjective data outcomes. Some have adopted science-based art making techniques, materials and concepts, to explore ideas about humanity. Women, for many years, were not able to aspire to formal careers as scientists as they were excluded from places of higher education. The same could be said of the visual arts - women were not seen in museums but they were still making art. In both cases, it was incorrectly assumed that women lacked certain physical and mental capacities, thus justifying their exclusion. This event will focus on both the physical sciences (including artificial intelligence, trans-species organ transplants, DNA, ecology and natural history) and the social sciences (including psychiatry, hysteria, and mysticism).