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PresentationLiteratureScience
Written By Joshua Sariñana

Photo by, David Joaquin Arellano

At this year’s Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference, I presented on hidden representational networks—the ways brains, algorithms, and media shape what we perceive as reality—drawing on neuroscience, cultural theory, and my projects The Poetry of Science and Mental Mapping. I explored how internal representations can be externalized through multimodal practices, such as poetry, portraiture, and network mapping. The talk highlighted how these forms of expression make hidden systems visible and contestable, opening new ways to understand the interplay of power, perception, and representation across science, technology, and culture.

Joshua Sariñana

Joshua Sariñana, PhD, obtained his degrees in neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed his doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sariñana’s multi-disciplinary art projects bridge art, science, and media. He has received several grants for his art projects, exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and has received numerous awards for his photographic work.

He combines his science communications background with his neuroscience and art practice. Sariñana has provided his expertise to WIRED Magazine, MIT Technology Review, MIT News, and as an invited speaker for the Neurohumanities series at Trinity College in Dublin.

http://joshuasarinana.com/
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