Thursday Evening at the Ars Electronica Center
Brains for Everybody and Deep Space LIVE / Thursday, April 26, 2018
Manuela Macedonia on the Ars Electronica Blog
(Linz, April 24, 2018) Two interesting talks await visitors to the Ars Electronica Center this Thursday, April 26th. At 6:30 PM, Manuela Macedonia will discuss friendship and the brain. She’ll go into how the brains of people who are close friends process information similarly and why friendship as a behavioral pattern even manifests itself in the brain. And at the next Deep Space LIVE event at 7 PM, geophysicist Hans-Peter Bunge will serve as guide on a journey to the center of the Earth. He’ll screen spectacular computer simulations showing that, at certain locations deep within our planet, cold plates are sinking while warmer masses of rock thrust upward, and explain what impact this has on Earth’s geological development.
Brains for Everybody
This series of talks spotlights the latest scientific findings and methods in the neurosciences. Dr. Manuela Macedonia is a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and is a member of the Neuronal Mechanisms of Interpersonal Communication working group. She and several colleagues founded the Neuroscience for you – Institute for Knowledge Transfer from the Neurosciences. Her aim is to enable interested members of the general public to get informed about current research on the brain.
Deep Space LIVE
The Ars Electronica Center hosts a Deep Space LIVE event every Thursday (except holidays) at 7 PM. Each presentation features ultra-high-definition imagery in 16×9-meter format and is accompanied by expert commentary, entertaining stand-up repartee, or musical improvisation. Whether great works from the history of art, space travel, journeys of discovery in the nano-world or a live concert is what you’ve come to behold, Deep Space LIVE stands for enlightening entertainment amidst breathtaking worlds of imagery. Holders of a valid Museum ticket are admitted free of charge.
Photo:
Reise ins Innere der Erde / credit: Christoph Anthes / Printversion
Photo:
Reise ins Innere der Erde / credit: Christoph Anthes / Printversion
