Watch in HD1080p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jQQuCNuf44&list=PLOyuQaVrp4qqS8yBeQpIeMQ5bDoijOQ9c&index=24 Our final lecture, which winds up the series (except for a postlude and two addenda), deals with the many Chan-associated paintings preserved in Japan that are grouped here, loosely, under the term Sōgenga. It concludes with the surviving works from two series of "Eight Views of the Xiao-Xiang Region," one attributed to Muqi, the other by Yujian—paintings that can be taken as representing the last stage in the long development of landscape painting in China that has been the central subject of this series.

Michael McClure is a Bay Area countercultural icon whose numerous works include Dark Brown, Ghost Tantras (which he famously read to the lions at the San Francisco Zoo), the play The Beard, albums with Ray Manzarek, one-time pianist with the Doors, and with Terry Riley, a republication of The Boobus and the Bunnyduck, a 1957 childrens book made with the artist JessRain Mirror. This summer, Elizabeth Marie Youngs full-length book, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books (it will come out in 2009), and Omahrahu Press published a chapbook of her Sonnets. She is finishing her PhD in Comparative Literature at Berkeley, and will join the Classical Studies Department at Wellesley College in January. http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/

Aaron Marcus, President, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Berkeley, CA http://www.minervaberkeley.org/conferences/seeing-knowing-vision-knowledge-cognition-and-aesthetics/2014-speakers1/aaron-marcus/ What makes products/services relying on human-computer communication successful? Intelligently designed metaphors, mental models, navigation, interaction, and appearance that help people make smarter decisions faster. Of special importance are information visualization combined with persuasion design that help people to change their behavior.I shall review some key terminology/concepts of my own way to apply visual semiotics to user-interface design and user-centered design. I shall show some examples of work to illustrate my philosophy, principles, and techniques, based on 48 years of experience in computer graphics, visual arts, and visual design, and 32 years of professional user-experience design work for about 320 clients worldwide. 2014 Conference on Neuroesthetics - Seeing Knowing: Vision, Knowledge, Cognition, and Aesthetics http://www.minervaberkeley.org Co-sponsored by the School of Optometry and Vision Science Program, University of California Berkeley

New Directions - Paul Courant Paul Courant is the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan, overseeing 19 libraries on the Ann Arbor campus. As Provost at UM he was engaged with campus-wide issues such as affirmative action in admissions and budget shortfalls due to reduced state support. As a professor of economics and public policy as well, Paul Courant brings a unique perspective to the issues of economics of universities, libraries and archives; research support; scholarly communication; and partnerships between faculty and libraries. For further information: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pnc/ http://www.lib.umich.edu/