Free, interactive chat with a famous Hudson Valley landscape painter & a faceblind science reporter!
Hudson Valley school artist David Dunlop, star of PBS’s “Landscapes Through Time,” will be explaining this and more at Barrett Bookstore, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Dunlop will be in conversation with author Sadie Dingfelder, who will be signing copies of her book, “Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination.”
For most people, vision seems effortless and passive. Under the hood, however, your brain is working hard to turn the mishmash of shapes and colors into a meaningful picture of the world. Along the way, it makes many assumptions and mistakes, and for centuries, artists have been exploiting these glitches.
Sadie Dingfelder, author of “Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into Sight, Memory and Imagination.” got to see some of these glitches first hand when she was diagnosed, at midlife, with a number of visual processing disorders, including faceblindness and stereoblindness.
David Dunlop, host of the Emmy-award winning PBS show “Landscapes Through Time,” will be in conversation with Dingfelder, talking about all the ways that our seamless conscious experience of the world is truly illusory, and how painters like him take advantage of this fact.
Event info is available here
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024 @6:30 PM
About Sadie Dingfelder:
Sadie Dingfelder is a science journalist who is currently obsessed with hidden neurodiversity and science-based answers to the question: If you were beamed into the mind of another person or animal, what would that be like? Her debut book is, “Do I Know you? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination.” She spent six years as a reporter for the Washington Post Express, where she focused on high-impact public service journalism, such as this review of every single bathroom on the National Mall. From 2016 to 2019, she also penned a biweekly column, “The Staycationer,” detailing her DC adventures, which included a walk-on part in the Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker, auditioning to be a “Nationals Racing President,” and playing one of the Smithsonian’s priceless Stradivarius violins. She contributed feature stories to other sections of the paper, including the tale of a crane who fell in love with her zookeeper. As a freelance writer, Dingfelder’s work has appeared in National Geographic, Washingtonian magazine, Connecticut Magazine and the Washington City Paper. Prior to working at the Post, Dingfelder spent almost a decade as the senior science writer for the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, covering new findings in neuroscience, cognitive science, and ethology.
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