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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img width=771 height=283 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D15F5F.2990EAB0"></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Your Brain on Dance <br>Date: February 12<sup>th</sup><br>Time: 5:30pm – 7:30 pm<br>Cost: Free</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Join us at <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12</span></strong>, in the UH <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.uh.edu/maps/buildings/?short_name=d" target="_blank">Engineering Building 1</a> Atrium</span></strong> for the fourth in a series of events as part of a <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://blafferartmuseum.org/brain/" target="_blank">groundbreaking collaboration</a></span></strong> between Blaffer Art Museum, Houston-based artists, and the University of Houston’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UHBMIST" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'>Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory</span></strong></a>, 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 <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://johnbeasant.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">John Beasant III</a></span></strong>, <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://chapmandance.com/About/Bio.html" target="_blank">Teresa Chapman</a></span></strong>, and <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://beckyvalls.com/" target="_blank">Becky Valls</a></span></strong> will play a variation of <a href="https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/max-ernst-levade-the-fugitive" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'>Exquisite Corpse</span></strong></a>, 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 (<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1533691&HistoricalAwards=false" target="_blank">#BCS 1533691</a></span></strong>) and led by engineering professor <a href="http://www.ece.uh.edu/faculty/contreras-vidal" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'>Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal</span></strong></a> — 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 <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://blafferartmuseum.org/brain/" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'>Your Brain on Art</span></strong></a></span></em> 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 <a href="http://www.blafferartmuseum.org/webPast/innovation/" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'>Blaffer Art Museum Innovation Series</span></strong></a>, launched in Spring 2015 to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations between the arts and sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>For more information, please visit <a href="https://www.egr.uh.edu/events/2016/ece-exquisite-corpse-dance">https://www.egr.uh.edu/events/2016/ece-exquisite-corpse-dance</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>