Wed, Jun 24, 2009
June 22-26, 2009
Study Discovers Clues Into How Eyes Search
Like the robots in the "Terminator" movies, our eyes move methodically through a scene when seeking out an object. If we don't immediately find what we're searching for, our attention leaves the already-scanned area behind and moves on to new, unexplored regions of a scene, still seeking the target.
Mike Dodd, a UNL professor of psychology, worked with researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the University of Iowa in tracking eye movements as subjects viewed various scenes. Using high-tech equipment that followed eye movements in real time, researchers recorded where their subjects' attention was focused at each moment. more...
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Jun Kaneko's 'Play's the Thing' Opening Reception June 26
The Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host an opening public reception 5-7 p.m. June 26 for "Play's the Thing: The Paintings and Objects of Jun Kaneko."
An Omaha resident, Kaneko is internationally recognized for his large ceramic "dangos" (Japanese for "dumpling"). The exhibition explores the relationship between his monumental ceramic sculptures and his paintings, his first and lesser-known medium. In addition to sculptures and new, large-scale paintings, the artist's drawings for opera costume designs and other works on paper will be on view. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Home and Sugar Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Home and Sugar. Both films will play through June 25.
In Home, Inga (Academy award winner Marcia Gay Harden) is a poet who wants to buy and restore a house she is drawn to that reminds her of her childhood home. Her distant husband Hermann (Michael Gaston) sees little value in it or many of the things she loves, and Inga realizes that many things in her life are coming full circle. Her crumbling marriage is a stark contrast to her relationship with her 8-year-old daughter, (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter) with whom she shares her hopes, fears and inner-most thoughts following her recovery from breast cancer. By day their lives seem magical, full of cloud watching, kite flying and lazy summer drives. But at night, Inga is troubled by her marriage, its lack of intimacy and her fear of her own mortality. By weaving optimism into her life’s story it is in her own writing that she hears the echo of her mother’s journey and experiences the revelation that allows her transformation.
Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.
More information is available at the Ross website.
