Technology, the Brain, and Audience Expectation: Vying for Attention in “Generation Elsewhere” - 10/17

Technology, the Brain, and Audience Expectation: Vying for Attention in “Generation Elsewhere”

“As new technologies have dramatically altered 9-to-5 modes of communication, work, and leisure, have they also changed—consciously or unconsciously—what today’s audiences expect from their encounters with art? How will the cultural sector’s ability to develop and market its content compete in an era of cognitive and behavioral change accelerated by new technologies? This debate explores how the contemporary brain is changing as a result of its encounter with new technologies, and how this change must be addressed—even manipulated by—administrators and artists.”

·         October 17, 2016, 4 – 6:30 p.m.

·         The Phillips Collection (1600 21st Street NW, Washington, D.C.)

·         Baroness Susan Greenfield will open the debate with a lecture on technology-driven “mind change.”

·         The debate will be moderated by DeVos Institute President Brett Egan.