Kerry Tribe is an artist that seeks to interpret the world through a creative lens. Mark Cohen is a neuroscientist that seeks to understand the mind through a scientific lens. Both perspectives are necessary to move us towards a better understanding of ourselves and how to navigate the uncertainties of our world.
Kerry Tribe is an artist that seeks to interpret the world through a creative lens. Mark Cohen is a neuroscientist that seeks to understand the mind through a scientific lens. Both perspectives are necessary to move us towards a better understanding of ourselves and how to navigate the uncertainties of our world.
Mark S. Cohen, Ph.D., is a Professor emeritus at UCLA in the departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Biomedical Physics and Bioengineering. Mark is a curiosity-driven scientist with an engineer’s mindset. He believes that the universe operates on orderly physical principles, knowledge of which will allow us to investigate and understand the most profound and difficult questions: the nature of our inner experience, the meaning of our existence, and the large-scale organization of society.
Mark S. Cohen
Kerry Tribe is a visual artist and experimental documentarian born in Boston and based in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at SFMOMA; The High Line; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts; The Power Plant; Modern Art Oxford; and Camden Arts Centre. Tribe is a recipient of the Presidential Residency at Stanford University, the Herb Alpert Award, the USA Artists Award, and the Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her latest exhibition, Kerry Tribe: Onomatopoeia, is on view through March at Emerson College in Boston.
Kerry Tribe
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In a fast-paced and wide-ranging conversation, Kerry and Mark led Long Now Boston on a fascinating exploration of human mind and human emotions. These are not, as some have thought, distinct domains of human experience. In fact, they are fundamentally intertwined and interconnected. Our emotions can drive the machinery of cognition through neural and chemical pathways in ways that we do not perceive. But they also inform, enliven and activate the sense we have of ourselves. This sense is everpresent in the conscious mind, and yet fundamentally unknowable.
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For more on Kerry’s remarkable works of art, visit her website, kerrytribe.com.
Mark Cohen can be found at UCLA where he is Professor-in-Residence of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.