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Monday, 6 October

Colour in the Shadows: Edinburgh Event

Free half-day seminar by University of Edinburgh & Colour Group (GB), uniting artists, designers, students, researchers, and educators.

By The Colour Group (Great Britain)

Date and time

Location

University of Edinburgh

19 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD United Kingdom

Agenda

1:45 AM - 1:50 AM

Registration

1:50 AM - 2:00 AM

Welcome – Dr Jasna Martinovic and Prof. Fiona McLachlan

2:00 AM - 2:35 AM

Shadow as Motivation and Medium

Irene Brown

Irene will outline how many years of visiting museums in search of the remnants of cabinets of curiosity, have influenced her research and practice. Describing her fascination for a time when the dis...

2:35 AM - 3:10 AM

Colour and Shadows in Life and Art

Derek Brown

Derek will first provide an overview of the phenomenon of colour constancy – the extent to which we perceive objects as having stable colours across changes in illumination conditions – outlining rel...

3:10 AM - 3:40 AM

Tea break

3:45 AM - 4:15 AM

Seeing Colour through Shadows: How the Brain Constructs Colour Appearance

Ana Rozman

Dr Ana Rozman is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Vision Lab at the School of Psychology, University of Sussex. She studies how the brain processes colour signals and builds colour representati...

4:15 AM - 5:00 AM

Charged Shades

Antoni Malinowski

The talk focuses on the phenomenology of shadows. The colour and tonality of shadows provide visual information about the characteristics of light. The micro-materiality of surfaces interacts with th...

About this event

Event lasts 3 hours 15 minutes

A free half-day cross disciplinary seminar hosted by the University of Edinburgh in collabora:on with The Colour Group (GB) brings together ar:sts, designers, students, researchers and educators.

Organised by

The Colour Group (Great Britain)

The Colour Group (Great Britain), founded in 1940, is an interdisciplinary society that draws together people interested in all aspects of colour - its perception, measurement, reproduction and artistic expression. Monthly meetings are held, mostly in London, usually from October to May and provide a unique forum for the exchange of information and contacts.