The official website of the Italian Society of Neuroesthetics Semir Zeki
CONFERENCES
Luca Ticini's talk on neuroaesthetics.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Italian Embassy
Brain storming between Viviana Kasam and Luca Francesco Ticini.
Festival RETI
Incontri straordinari di Musica Scienza e Poesia
salute e cultura per un nuovo welfare
Trieste, November 10 2012
Luca F Ticini and Cosimo Urgesi are convenors at the
5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Space and Embodied Cognition.
September 4-8, 2012
Rome (Italy)
Luca F Ticini will be speaking in occasion of the presentation of the project
Progetto Diventerò
organized by the Bracco foundation
Other speakers (among others): Giuliano Pisapia, Diana Bracco, Giosuè Boetto Cohen.
Milano (Italy)
15 February, 2012
Luca F Ticini will be speaking at the symposium entitled
Lifestyles, Health and Culture: Issues for a New Welfare
Stili di vita, salute e cultura: per un nuovo welfare
organized by the Bracco foundation
Other speakers (among others): Luca Cavalli Sforza, Antonella Delle Fave, Enzo Grossi, Corey Keyes, L.O. Bygren
Milano (Italy)
2 December, 2011
Anthony Brooks will chair the ArtsIT international conference (supported by ArtAbilitation).
Transmedia International Masterclass Marseille
Esbjerg, Denmark
December 7-9, 2011
Luca F Ticini will participate in a round table in occasion of the XI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo
Italian Institute of Culture, Embassy of Italy
Berlin (Germany)
24 October, 2011
The art price GASAG kunstpreis
(in the Jury, Luca F Ticini) goes to
Tue Greenfort
Berlinische Galerie,
Berlin (Germany)
October, 2011
Luca F Ticini will participate to the interdisciplinary artistic research project developed by Louise Wagner in cooperation with the Association of Neuroesthetics (Berlin)
Sound/Space/Body - A Process
Radialsystem (Berlin)
May 28, 2011
Luca F Ticini and the architect Massimo Iosa Ghini will talk about creativity.
L'arte e la scienza del vedere e del creare.
Sala Buzzati, Fondazione Corriere della Sera, Milano (Italy)
March 15th, 2011
Other articles:
Anthony Brooks will present the invention and development of the patented product from his research, which is based upon a perceptual controller. The use of gesture control in Prof. Brooks early games and the evolution and the potentials still to be explored in relation to current & future demographic trends.
Transmedia International Masterclass Marseille
Opening the international festival of theatre and culture for early childhood
Luca F Ticini, Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Juan Mata Anaya will talk about creativity
I segreti della creativita'
Teatro Testoni Ragazzi, Bologna (Italy)
February 26th, 2011
Luca F Ticini
Neuroesthetics and Art
Italian Institute of Culture, Embassy of Italy in Berlin (Germany)
February 14th, 2011
Emily Cross
Dance Neuroaesthetics:
A Delicate Choreography between Action Ability and Aesthetic Evaluation.
Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany)
January 12th, 2011
A series of seminars on color, art, fashion and design organized by the Fondazione Roberto Capucci.
Luca F Ticini will present a seminar on color perception.
Fondazione Roberto Capucci,
Villa Bardini, Florence,
October 21, 2010
Luca F Ticini and Pier Luigi Capucci will talk about neuroesthetics.
More details soon.
Udine (Italy)
May 9 maggio 2010, 17.30 hr
Luca F Ticini will give a talk entitled
Neuroestetica: un passo verso la comprensione della creativita' artistica?
University of Bologna (Italy)
March 16, 2010
The annual meeting in neuroesthetics will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, California, on the topic of
Time and Timing
16 January 2010
Luca F Ticini and Juan Mata Anaya
at the round table on neuroesthetics entitled
I neuroni in posa. Arte e mente in dialogo.
Trieste, Sala Bartoli del Politeama Rossetti
October 24, 2009.
The new conference of the Institute of Neuroesthetics
Reflections on Mirror Neurons
Berkeley, CA 94704-1716, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum,
January 17, 2009
A series of seminars on art, fashion and design organized by the Fondazione Roberto Capucci. In this occasion, Luca F Ticini presented a seminar on color perception entitled
Dalla fisica della luce alla percezione del colore
Fondazione Roberto Capucci,
Villa Bardini, Florence, November 20, 2009
Pictures taken at the seminar (Photos by Chiara Moretto)
In the turning of its half century of existence,
LIGA fundation accomplishes
in the the International Congress
Human Functionality in Perspective:
Devising New Pathways, Expanding Horizons.
In this occasion, Luca F Ticini presented a plenary lecture on
Human Functionality in the Arts
LIGA fundation,
Lisbon, 7th and 8th November 2008
Pictures taken at the International Congress:

This conference combines various areas of knowledge such as Neuropsychology, Musical Sciences, Theatrical Arts, Arts Therapy and Linguistics, among others.
Professor Semir Zeki presented a lecture on The neurology of kinetic art
Casa da Musica,
Porto, 11-12 September 2008

The ArtAbilitation international conference offers a platform for dissemination where art,
creative expression and/or playful activity is involved. A common goal is the empowerment
of people with disabilities, without restriction to ability, age, race, gender or creed.
Both Rehabilitation and Habilitation issues are pertinent for presentation in ArtAbilitation.
The ISN contributes with its president, member of the International Programme Committee.
Maia, Portugal 8-10 September 2008
The International movement of SCIENCE &ART for a better life would like to explore new interdisciplinary research and educational programs to increase understanding and to investigate innovative achievements and methods and best practices in selected integrated fields of advanced study as management of art & science communication, art culture and journalism, etc.
The ISN contributes with its president, member of the International Promotion Committee.
Antica Tribuna di Galileo Galilei, Museo La Specola
Florence, Italy 8-10 November 2007
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The 1st International Conference on Brain, art & languages
Luca F Ticini was a keynote speaker with a lecture entitled
The visual brain: what art can reveal about the brain
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, November 2007

Public lecture of Luca F Ticini entitled
Bergamo, Italy, November 2005
Public lecture of Luca F Ticini entitled
Museum of Arts
Lugano, Switzerland, May 2005

Public lectures by Semir Zeki and Luca F Ticini.
The conference was organized by Annunziato Lopa and Domenica Galluso, both members of the our directive council.
Program
Ambiguity in art and in the brain
Semir Zeki
Gaudi, Missoni, Mondrian: l'astrazione della forma e del colore
Luca Francesco Ticini
Knowledge, art and the brain
Semir Zeki
Academy of Arts
Reggio Calabria, Italy, May 2004

Public lecture of Luca F Ticini entitled
Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico
Trieste, Italy, March 2004