2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE BRAIN-BODY IMAGING AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF ART, INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

LIVE AQUA, CANCUN JULY 24-27,2016

http://yourbrainonart.egr.uh.edu/

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2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE BRAIN-BODY IMAGING AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF ART, INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

LIVE AQUA, CANCUN JULY 24-27,2016

Supported in part by National Science Foundation Award #IIS 1631608 and the Office of Naval Research Global Award N62909-16-1-2065

Sunday, 7/24/16

Sign-in and get your welcome package at the Hospitality Desk

Enjoy a Maya Buffet

Los Porteños Musical Group at 7pmMariachi Plata at 9pm

Welcome by Conference Co-Chairs Pepe Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston, Houston, Texas), Klaus Gramann, (Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Dario Robleto (Multidisciplinary Artist and Poet, Houston, Texas), Claudia Schmuckli (Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, Texas) and Todd Frazier (Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine, Houston, Texas)

Consortium students to meet promptly at Hospitality Desk with Conference Chairs to review consortium activities. Student Consortium supported in part by the National Science Foundation IIS 1631608, The University of Houston Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory, and Conference Exhibitors.

http://yourbrainonart.egr.uh.edu/

Azur Pool

4:00 – 7:00 p.m.

WELCOME DINNER

7:00 - 11:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

8:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Monday, 7/25/16

Conference Center Room Aqua 2

Neuroaesthetics, Arts & the Biology of Creativity

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. How the creative arts and aesthetic experiences engage the brain and mind and promote innovation? Chairs: Pepe Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston, Houston, TX) and Dario Robleto (Multidisciplinary artist and poet, Houston, TX)

This panel (15 min/speaker) is dedicated to summarizing the state-of-the-art, and/or identifying issues put forth in recent research on neuroaesthetics, creativity and innovation.

• Anjan Chatterjee (Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA): The AestheticBrain

• Arne Dietrich (American U of Beirut, Lebanon): The Creative Brain• Xin Wei Shah (Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ): The Aesthetic-

Corporeal Experience• Gil Weinberg (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA): Can Robots be Creative?

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Open Forum and DiscussionScribes (Edgar Cardenas, Aaron Colverson, Lindsay Esola, Sargoon Nepaul and Rebecah Pulsifer) will take notes and report back to all at end of conference.

Student Consortium: Poster Session and Technology Demonstrations

Stephanie Jefferson (SMI) and Patrick Britz (Brain Products) will demonstrate mobile integration of simultaneous gaze behavior and brain activity measurements by freely behaving participants.

Lena Andreessen (Technische Universitaet Berlin) will demonstrate a passive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) as an evaluative tool for art perception. The experiment was first conducted at the Long Night of Museums in Berlin in 2015 in the Museum of Stillness.

ART&SCIENCE CAFÉ Aqua Room 1A-C

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

11:00 – 12:00 p.m. How do arts-science collaborations employ aesthetics as a means of problem solving and create meaning through aesthetic problem solving? Chairs: Horst Hoertner (Ars Electronica Future Lab, Linz, Austria) and Claudia Schmuckli (Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX)

This panel will discuss the construction of meaning and the ethics, impact and reach of artworks realized in collaboration with scientists and other professionals. It will also address the myths, challenges and opportunities surrounding collaboration between artists, scientists and engineers (12 min/speaker).

• Noah Hutton (Film Director and curator, co-founder of The Beautiful Brain,an independent blog focused on the dialogue between neuroscience, art,and other fields of inquiry, New York, NY)

• Dario Robleto (Multidisciplinary artist and poet, Houston, TX)• Monica Lopez-Gonzales (Cognitive Scientist, Multidisciplinary Artist,

and Co-Founder and Scientific & Artistic Director of La Petite NoiseuseProductions, Baltimore, MD)

• Janet Biggs (Video Artist, New York, NY)• Julia Buntaine (Artist and Editor-in-Chief, SciArt in America, New York, NY)

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

ART&SCIENCE COMIDA 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Open Forum and DiscussionScribes (Madeleine Gorges, Brandon Jones, Stephanie Scott, and Joseph Chi-Sing Siu) will take notes and report back to all at end of conference.

Lunch with your newly found research partners at one of these restaurants:• Azur: Mediterranean cuisine and buffet.• Sea Corner: Seafood with a view.• Varenna: Italian gourmet cuisine under the trees.• Siete: Enjoy Mexican cuisine in a sophisticated space of Mexican art and

pop art.

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Citizen Science in Public Spaces: How museums and other public venues can engage the public and facilitate interdisciplinary discourse and innovation in STEAM. Chairs: Alexander Leonessa (National Science Foundation) and Monica Lopez-Gonzales (Cognitive Scientist, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Co-Founder and Scientific & Artistic Director of La Petite Noiseuse Productions, Baltimore, MD)

This panel will discuss the myths, challenges and opportunities emerging from institutional collaborations among, artists, scientists and engineers (15 min/speaker).

• Laurie Baefsky (ArtsEngine / a2ru, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)• Horst Hoertner (Ars Electronica Future Lab, Linz, Austria)• Roger Malina (University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX)• Claudia Schmuckli (Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

ARTFUL SCIENCE PERFORMANCES

5:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Open Forum and DiscussionScribes (Grace Leslie, Rebecca Barnstaple, Shane Esola, Federico Gennaro, and David Rosen) will take notes and report back to all at end of conference.

Performance by Grace Leslie (MIT Media Lab): ‘Vessels’ (15 min)“Vessels” incorporates electronic music improvisation and sonification of physiological signals. In this piece, raw EEG signal from a dry-electrode EEG system is recorded and used to actuate a set of static sound samples. In “Vessels,” the sonic material is the static, virtual space, and the musical narrative emerges through an unfolding of cognitive states.

Faculty-Student Collaborative Performance: Miriam Phillips & Karen Bradley (Dance Department, University of Maryland) and trainees Rebecca Barnstaple, Aaron Colverson, Jesus Cruz-Garza, Cecilia Fontanesi, Anastasiya Kopteva, Shane Monds, Sargoon Nepaul, Andrew Paek (University of Houston): ‘Your Brain on Dance’ (15 min)

‘Your Brain on Dance’ explores closed-loop visual and auditory neurofeedback of evolving brain waves in action and context during Flamenco and improvisation dance.

Join newly found colleagues and trainees and have an artful evening at Live Aqua.

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, 7/26/16

Conference Center Room Aqua 2

Track on Cognitive, Medical and Pedagogical Applications

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. How the creative arts and neuroscience promote understanding of social cognition, improve health and advance education?Chairs: Harry Ballan (Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, Bronx, NY) and Todd Frazier (Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine, Houston, Texas)

This session will assess the state of the art and challenges in understanding cognition in natural settings, the healing power of the creative arts, and the need for the arts to promote learning and innovation (12 min/speaker).

• Anthony Brandt (Rice University, Houston, TX): The Musical Brain andCreativity

• Jose Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston, Houston, TX): ExquisiteCorpse: Assaying neural individuality, variation, and intentionality in thecreative arts

• Julie King (Herron School of Art and Design and Department of Neurology,Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN): Art assessment andtherapy as a brain-based intervention to promote physiological and emotionalhealth

• Karen Bradley (University of Maryland, College Park, MD): Your Brain onDance: Artistic, Pedagogical and Health Implications

• John Michael Schert (Chicago Booth School of Business & UChicagoArts, Chicago, IL): Role of Artists in Inspiring Creativity and Innovation in theWorkplace

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Open Forum and DiscussionScribes (Amy Belfi, Vicente Estrada, Aaron Faith, Anastasiya Kopteva, and Melissa Leider) will take notes and report back to all at end of conference.

ARTFUL SCIENCE CAFÉ Aqua Room 1A-C10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Student Consortium: Poster Session and Technology Demonstrations

Demonstration of Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) Technologies: Ant Neuro will demonstrate complete solutions for mobile recording of neurophysiological signals in sports, arts, and medical applications.

Mobile Music from your Mind:Tim Mullen will demonstrate a mobile cloud-powered version of the original MoodMixer application created with Grace Leslie, a collaborative experience which remixes music based on real-time EEG-based measures of participants' cognitive-affective states.

Track on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) Technologies

11:00 – 12:00 p.m. How MoBI technologies are changing science, arts and innovationChairs: Chang S. Nam (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC) and Christof Karmonik (Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX)

This session will review the state-of-the-art, and identify challenges and opportunities for scientific and societal impact (15 min/speaker).

• Klaus Gramann (Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany):Imaging Brain Dynamics of Natural Cognition

• Jose Azorin (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Elche, Spain):MoBI and the potentiation of creativity.

• Tim Mullen (Founding Creative Director of Mainly Mozart’s “Mozart &the Mind” festival and Founding CEO of Qusp and Research Director ofQusp Labs): Your Brain on Music: Exploring the impact of music on ourbrains, health, and lives.

• Scott Makeig (University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA): MoBITechnologies to Study the Mind and the Body.

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Open Forum and DiscussionScribes (Ying Choon Wu, Lukas Gehrke, Guillermo Herrera, Evelyn Jungnickel, and Andrew Paek) will take notes and report back to all at end of conference.

• Azur: Mediterranean cuisine and buffet• Sea Corner: Seafood with a view• Varenna: Italian gourmet cuisine under the trees• Siete: Enjoy Mexican cuisine in a sophisticated space of Mexican art

and pop art

5:30 – 8:00 p.m.

8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

MAYA TOUR 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Lunch with your newly found research partners at one of these restaurants:

BANQUET

Visit to the Museum Maya de CancúnMeet in hotel lobby at 2:30pm to board shuttle. We will leave sharply at 2:45pm.

Free time to refresh and get ready for an artful evening!

Farewell Dinner at Garden of the SensesDancing with the Latin Swing Musical Band

ART&SCIENCE COMIDA

9:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Wednesday, 7/27/16

Conference Center Room Aqua 2

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Track on Artistic Brain-Computer Interfaces

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide a direct link to access neural activity about intentionality and emotional intelligence. BCI systems can be designed for artistic expression, understanding or triggering emotions, and assessing the aesthetic experiences in freely behaving individuals.Chairs: Klaus Gramann (Technical University Berlin, Germany) and Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands)

This session will assess the state of the art and challenges in cognitive and affective brain-computer interfaces, and their deployment in the service of the arts and the study of neural individuality and variation (15 min/speaker).

• Chang S. Nam (Industrial & Systems & Biomedical Engineering andDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC):Control mechanisms in artistic BCIs

• Thorsten Zander (Technical University Berlin, Germany): Passive BCIs inmuseum landscapes

• Edward Vessel (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt,Germany): Neuroimaging of aesthetic experiences

• Norberto M. Grzywacz (Georgetown University, Washington, DC):Inferring Master Painters’ Neuroesthetical Biases from the Statistics ofPortraits

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Open Forum and DiscussionScribes ( Jesus Cruz, Lena Andreessen, Cecilia Fontanesi, Shane Monds, and Joseph Chi-Sing Siu) will take notes and report back to all at end of conference.

Technology Demonstrations and Student MoBI Projects

Demonstration of Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) Technologies APDM Wearable Technologies will demonstrate complete solutions for mobile recording of whole body movement in sports, science and medical applications.

What we have learned? How art can drive creativity and innovation in science? How science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can best inform, support and partner with the arts (STEAM)?

Team Leaders report back to the participants (10 min per team).

Draft of Consensus Report Chairs: Pepe Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston, Texas), and Klaus Gramann (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

CLOSURE OF CONFERENCE

ARTFUL SCIENCE CAFÉ Aqua Room 1A-C

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

ROADMAP10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

NEXT STEPS11:30 – 12:00 p.m.

12:00 p.m.

A special thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors

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