Why Minds Need Art

Wednesday, Feb. 22
5:45 - 7:15 pm
$20 ($15 Jung Center members)

Do minds need art? The answer is an emphatic yes. Drawing on the work of neuroscientist David Eagleman and cognitive scientists Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier, we will discover that creativity is a generalized feature of human cognition, and the arts the powerful exercise and expression of our capacity to innovate. We will explore a unified model of creativity and demonstrate how it applies to diverse art forms and the wider range of human thought.

Anthony Brandt is associate professor of composition and theory at the Shepherd School of Music and artistic director of the Houston-based contemporary music ensemble Musiqa. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Rice University's Connexions and Ken Kennedy Institute, he created Sound Reasoning, a free, online music appreciation course, the first of its kind. Dr. Brandt has been awarded Rice University's George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize.

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