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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><img width=698 height=256 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D12C20.D0FD6CA0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Join us at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, in the UH Engineering Building 1 Atrium for the third in a series of events as part of a groundbreaking collaboration between Blaffer Art Museum, Houston-based artists, and the University of Houston’s Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory, seeking clues to what happens in the brain as people create, perform, and contemplate art.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Wearing skullcaps equipped with sensors, UH dancer-choreographers John Beasant III, Teresa Chapman, and Becky Valls will play a variation of Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative, chance-based game made famous by the Surrealists in the 1920s — but they’ll be dancing rather than drawing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The demonstration will be followed by a discussion of the dancers’ process and the goals of the research — funded by the National Science Foundation (#BCS 1533691) and led by engineering professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal — to study connections between the brain and creativity, expression, and the perception of art.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Future Your Brain on Art events will feature similar collaborations between artists in other disciplines, including the visual, performing, and literary arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This project is an outgrowth of the Blaffer Art Museum Innovation Series, launched in Spring 2015 to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations between the arts and sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Visit <a href="https://www.egr.uh.edu/events/2015/your-brain-dance">https://www.egr.uh.edu/events/2015/your-brain-dance</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>