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Monday, 6 October

Colour in the Shadows: Edinburgh Event

By The Colour Group (Great Britain)

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

Date and time

Location

room g32, 7 George Square

7 George Square #room g32 Edinburgh EH8 9JZ 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...

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Highlights

3 hours, 15 minutes
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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)

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