William kentridge wikipedia
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'The Art of Reading: From William Kentridge to Wikipedia’
The Art of Reading
Reading is a truly remarkable activity. As babies we can’t do it; but we soon learn to do it at great speed. Reading is not just looking, it also involves turning pages, touching, seeing and remembering, concentrating and responding. How does reading work, actually? How unique an activity is leafing through a book? What different kinds of reading can be distinguished, now that we read more and more on screens? How do you cope, as a reader, with words, sounds and images coming at you at the same time? And how do art and industry respond to these developments? All this will be explored in a new kind of interactive exhibition with books.
Three examples: William Kentridge, Carina Hesper, and Michael Mandiberg
The book 2nd Hand Reading () by William Kentridge has never before been on view in the Netherlands. Kentridge made hundreds of drawings in an English dictionary. These served as the basis for
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Elisabeth Tonnard
A Dialogue in Useful Phrases and its sound project will be on view in the exhibition The Art of Reading: From William Kentridge to Wikipedia. The exhibition is curated by House of the Book, a collaboration between Museum Meermanno and the National Library of the Netherlands. Over twenty installations, arranged as experimental areas, give visitors the opportunity to become acquainted with different aspects of reading.
The exhibition will run from November 18 to March 4, The opening will take place on November 17th, you can see the details of the Dutch invitation by clicking the image above.
If you rather read books at home, A Dialogue in Useful Phrases can be ordered with free shipping until November beställning by email or through this link.
Artists/projects: Scott Blake, Hole Punch Flipbook #2 (US, ); Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen (US, ); Jan Dirk van der Burg, Tweetbundel (NL, ); Marinus van Dijke, Eye (NL, ); Paul Emmanu
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Robert William Kentridge
British experimental psychologist
Professor Robert William Kentridge (born ) is a British experimental psychologist.
Academic career
[edit]Robert Kentridge is Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham in the UK. His work is focussed on understanding the relationship between visual perception, visual attention, and consciousness. He has approached these questions by studying neurological patients, by systematically assessing visual abilities using psychophysical methods, using neuroimaging, and, more recently, using virtual reality. His work on attention and consciousness has had notable influence on philosophical views about the basis of consciousness.
In , Kentridge began studying for a PhD at the University of Durham on the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in neural basis of reinforcement in rats,[1] under the supervision of Professor John Patrick Aggleton. Kentridge obtained his PhD in , and then took up a post-doctor