Track 23: Visual Perception

#Track 23 #Visual #Perception

#Vision is a #biological #process and the human organism's #phylogenetic capacity for seeing, a social, political and cultural phenomenon which is continually undergoing transformations throughout history and in relation to different social and cultural #environments. Accordingly if we are to better understand the diverse ways of seeing #encountered around the world then we must consider the relationship between the eye, brain and body in relation to language, the #imagination and #culture; consider how different visual practices are #embodied, #naturalised and #articulated within different times and places; and how acts of looking not only shape the relations between persons but structure the way they encounter and understand the world and finally how culture shapes our #visions.