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Jane Harris eschewed the fashionable 1990s London art scene and retreated to rural France where she experimented quietly with shape and colour.
Norman Daly’s 1972 exhibition, ‘The Civilization of Llhuros,’ presented fiction as fact – and reminded viewers of just how easily they could be duped.
The ‘fool the eye’ cakes hearken back to popular paintings from another period in American history when there was anxiety over fakes, fraudsters and misinformation.
Sometimes our brain gets confused and misunderstands what the eyes tell it.
We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as we have.
Visual illusions, such as the rabbit-duck (shown above) and café wall (shown below) are fascinating because they remind us of the discrepancy between perception and reality. But our knowledge of such illusions…
It may seem silly to ask yourself if your index finger is part of your body, but that question is actually perfectly reasonable in neuroscience research - and has led to important insights into key brain…
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Research Associate, The University of Western Australia
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Liberal Arts Endowed Professor of Communication, Penn State
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Senior Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Associate Professor, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
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Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Senior Lecturer in New Media Design, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin
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PhD student, The University of Queensland
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David G. Frey Assistant Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Chancellor’s Professor of Art, University of Tennessee