Symposium: Beauty Investigated

Date/Time:	Thursday, 15 Feb 2024 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Location:	College of Design
Cost:	Free
URL:	www.design.iastate.edu/news/2024/01/beau...symposium/
Contact:	Ingrid Lilligren,
Phone:	515-294-7428
Channel:	College of Design
Categories:	Arts, performances Conferences
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Exploring aspects of the cultural construction of beauty, including perspectives found in AI, art, and socially engaged pedagogies. Presenters who shared their work in the "Beauty Investigated: Dilemmas, Projects, and Promises" exhibit will participate in keynote and breakout panel discussions, performances, and roundtable conversations.

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Symposium Schedule
Thursday, February 15
5-6 p.m., Introduction and keynote panel overview (Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design)
6:15-7:30 p.m., Exhibition Reception (Gallery 181)

Friday, February 16
9 a.m.-noon, Morning sessions: Beauty and Community; Beauty and Social Justice (4250 SICTR)
Noon-1:15 p.m., Lunch break
1:15-4:15 p.m., Afternoon sessions: Beauty and Material Culture; Beauty and Computation (4250 SICTR)
5:45-7:15 p.m., Dinner break
7:30-9 p.m., Performances (Gallery 181)

Saturday, February 17
9:30-11 a.m., Roundtable conversation (4250 SICTR)
11:15 a.m.-noon, Conclusions

Beauty Investigated: Dilemmas, Projects, and Promises
The symposium's focus on the interdisciplinary aspects of aesthetics will specifically spotlight the questions and problems that arise from constructed principles of beauty:
-- How are these principles taught to us via society as behavior learned by the group?
-- When we experience beauty, where does the intrinsic reaction to beauty come from?
-- How do we innately experience and derive enjoyment and positive feelings as a behavior/reaction to something or an experience that is termed beautiful?
-- How do we come to agreement on what is considered beautiful?
-- Who determines this and who benefits?
-- Who is included and who or what is not?

By bringing together researchers, scholars, and creative practitioners who are working within these themes across fields such as aesthetics, visual arts, creative artificial intelligence, and generative art systems, we're pleased to highlight these areas of innovation and the arts, and we welcome all members of the Iowa State community to attend.