Update: how we see

20 March 2006

At two interesting events at the London Hayward Gallery this week, as part of artist Dan Flavin's retrospective, scientist and writer Dr Beau Lotto explores how we see.

Colour and the Post-Modern Brain
Tuesday 21 March 2006, 18:30-19.30
Waterloo Sunset Pavilion
Hayward Gallery

Join Dr Lotto to unravel the complexities of perception and the neurobiological basis of our understanding of light and colour.

Saturday Science Séance
Saturday 25 March 2006, 13:00-15.00
'Afterimage' space
Hayward Gallery

Dr Lotto joins fellow scientists Mark Miodownik and Mark Lythgoe to reveal how and why we see what we do. Dr Lotto will be conducting a series of live experiments with bumblebees, highlighting the fundamental relationship between 'experience' and 'perception' that is the basis for illusions of colour in animals as diverse as bees and humans.

Both events are free with the exhibition ticket for the day.

This research was funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust. For more on Beau Lotto's work with bees, read our news story Research: Bee vision.

External links

• Lotto Lab (Dr Lotto's website)
• Hayward Gallery events