Fellowships
2022-2023 Heller Center Fellows
Thursday, October 20 * 6pm
Dr. Mark Miller
Assistant Professor
Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN) Hokkaido University
What do social media and gaslighting have in common?
What the neuroscience of predictive processing teaches us about communication that makes us thrive vs despair. Social media is implicated today in an array of mental health concerns today. In this talk, Dr. Mark Miller will discuss the cognitive mechanisms behind why we find it so hard to stop engaging with these platforms when things obviously begin to deteriorate for us, as well as show how some social media platforms represent highly effective ways of warping our model of the world- which in turn leads to the mental health challenges we see today. This same cognitive framework will also be applied to elucidate some of the devastating effects of “gaslighting” and other forms of misinformation.
Dr. Miller will be in residency starting October 16-23
*Co-sponsored with the Department of Communication
Thursday, May 4 * 5-7pm
Jon Rubin
Professor of Art
Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
Art in Context: A conversation with Jon Rubin
Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that re-imagine individual, group and institutional behavior. He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; the Shanghai Biennial; the Carnegie International, The Lyon Biennale; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; as well as in backyards, in living rooms, and on street corners.
During his fellowship at the Heller Center, Jon will launch a new site-specific project in The Yard, a project space and site for public art run by Jessica Langley and Ben Kinsley (Assistant Professor of Visual Art, UCCS) in their front yard in the Divine Redeemer neighborhood of Colorado Springs.
Jon and Ben will lead a discussion about contemporary site-specific art practices and their own projects, collaborations, and initiatives on Thursday, May 4 from 5-7pm at the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities.
All are welcome to attend the public opening and reception for Jon's exhibition on Saturday, May 6 from 4-8pm at The Yard (1010 N. Logan Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80909). http://whatsintheyard.com/
Jon Rubin will be in residency starting April 30 - May 7
*Co-sponsored with the Visual and Preforming Arts
