A lecture on the psychophysics and physiology of colour by vision scientist Paul Martin, with a response by artist Madeleine Kelly.
Detail from Madeleine Kelly, Mama Ocllo, 2019. Acrylic on polyester, aluminium composite board, stepper motors 179.4 x 184 cm Technical advisor: John Tonkin Photo: Carl Warner.
In this presentation, Paul Martin will address the topic of vision from his perspective as Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney. In particular, Professor Martin will discuss the topic of color opponency, as seen from the differing viewpoints of color appearance (psychophysics) and measurement of nerve cell responses (physiology).
"Visions Cultures" is convened by Mark Ledbury and Nick Croggon as part of the Power Institute’s philanthropically funded Visual Understanding Initiative.
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Paul Martin
Paul R. Martin received his PhD in Physiology at the University of Sydney in 1986. Following postdoctoral work in Germany, in 1992 he joined Faculty at the University of Sydney. From 2003 to 2009 he was Director of Research at the National Vision Research Institute of Australia and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He took up his current appointment as Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney in 2010.
Madeleine Kelly
Madeleine Kelly (b. Freising, Germany, 1977) arrived in Australia in 1980 and is a visual artist of Australian and Peruvian descent who primarily works in painting. Her work engages with human encounters with ‘nature’ and elemental forces. Bringing together figuration and abstraction, her practice is a mixture of the cosmic and the material that explores the many, often ineffable, points of contact between people, animals and plants such that the material world is transformed in rich and absorbing fantasy. Madeleine majored in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 1999, and her practice-led PhD was conferred by the same institution in 2013.
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