Name: An Evening of Close Encounters with Hung Lu Chan
Start: 2024-03-07T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-03-07T23:00:00+01:00
Location: MU Hybrid Art House

An Evening of Close Encounters with Hung Lu Chan

MU Hybrid Art House

Investigate our internal aliens through a special mix of guided meditation, AI neural networks and cognitive neuroscience.

Are you an adventurous sci-fi fan, always looking out for ufo's and the latest extraterrestrial blockbuster? Are you then also prepared to completely turn your perspective around and get closer to your inner aliens for once?If yes, then come to MU on Thursday March 7 and join in an Evening of Close Encounters together with Hung Lu Chan and his team of cognitive neuroscientists. For centuries, humans have been perceiving other worlds by imagining aliens, from ghosts, zombies and mermaids to monopods, Martians and other extraterrestrial beings. Gradually, these absurd creatures and science fiction entities have gained an impact on our sociopolitical perceptions of otherness.But our imagination of aliens is largely based on projecting our own biases, emotions, and desires into the unknown. In other words, aliens begin within us. And even though the advancement of technology has disenchanted many imagined figures and narratives, our inner aliens have never ceased but evolved along with human nature.So why not turn the perspective around, and for once not look at the universe searching for the unknown, but investigate our internal aliens through a special mix of guided meditation, AI neural networks and cognitive neuroscience ?With their BAD Award-winning project Close Encounters with Inner Aliens Taiwanese social designer Hung Lu Chan and neuroscientists Floris de Lange, Floortje Bouwkamp and Matthias Ekman of Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour delve into the theme of inner alien encounters, utilizing fMRI and AI to analyze and explore our internal visual imagery of otherworldly realms. 19.30 Doors open20.00 Introduction and Inner Aliens-workshop by Hung Lu Chan21.00 Screening of sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind22.15 Recap and drinks23.00 End of the evening

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