is a conference organized by the Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, on the occasion of the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The event will bring together scholars doing some of the most creative and thought-provoking work related to color and the brain...


Columbia University
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
No tickets required.

This conference has been organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, on the occasion of the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Part of a series of events held in collaboration with MoMA and Olafur Eliasson Studio, this event will bring together scholars doing some of the most creative and thought-provoking work related to color and the brain.

Mark Wigley
Dean, GSAPP, Columbia University

Barry Bergdoll
Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Jonathan Crary
Art History Department, Columbia University

Brian Greene
Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Columbia University

David Eagleman
Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine

Robert Shapley
Center for Neural Science, New York University

Pireeni Sundaralingam
Poet/cognitive scientist

Aniruddha Das
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University

Steven Holl
Architect, Columbia University

Olafur Eliasson
Artist

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April 18, 2008
6-8 P.M.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York

This Friday-evening session will feature Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, Department of Media, and Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, organizers of the exhibition; Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; and Olafur Eliasson, in conversation with Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP, Columbia
University.

For tickets and event details, please visit http://www.moma.org/thinkmodern