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56: Imagery, Symbolism, and Human Consciousness
Wednesday, Half Day
1:30 - 5:15 pm
Room 217BCD
Computer graphics is old enough to be entering mid-life,
the years when humans start looking for deeper relevance
and meaning, when we start asking ourselves "why?"
This course opens a door to the symbolic realm where our
images can lead us to those answers.
Prerequisites
None. Since this is an attempt to build a bridge to a
new domain previously outside the SIGGRAPH experience,
the course provides everything necessary for the journey,
and doesn’t require prior knowledge of what's on
the other side. Familiarity with analytic psychology is
helpful. More helpful still: a willingness to relax one's
preconceptions and a desire to see the world in new ways.
Topics
Symbolism; different forms of perception; consciousness
and the unconscious; analytic psychology; dreamwork; mythology;
mathematics, physics, computation, and the origin of time;
use of imagery in medicine and healing; deeper symbolic
communication in film and television; collective consciousness
of groups; questions of personal responsibility as creators
of images; examining SIGGRAPH itself through its own imagery;
how images and self-reflection tell us about ourselves.
Organizer
Bruce McDiffett
Evil Genius
Lecturers
Loren Carpenter
Pixar Animation Studios
Cinematrix, Inc.
Loren Eskenazi
California Pacific Medical Center
Carole Kammen
Pathways Institute
Bruce McDiffett
Evil Genius
Schedule
| Module
1 - The Inner World |
| 1:30 |
Forms
of Perception and Consciousness
McDiffett |
| 1:50 |
Organization
of the Psyche
Kammen and McDiffett |
| 2:15 |
Psychology,
Mythology, and Collective Consciousness
Kammen and McDiffett |
| 2:35 |
Images,
Dreams, Mathematics, Physics, and Time
McDiffett |
| 3:00 |
Experiential
Exercises
Kammen and McDiffett |
| 3:15 |
Break |
| Module
2 - The Outer World |
| 3:30 |
Medicine
and Healing
Eskenazi |
| 3:50 |
Group
Entertainment
Carpenter |
| 4:10 |
Film
Kammen |
| 4:30 |
Computer
Graphics and Society
McDiffett |
| 4:50 |
Group
Discussion and Questions and Answers
All |
| 5:10 |
Closing
Remarks and Open Questions
McDiffett |
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