Colour & light

With Mark Rosin (Pratt Institute)

Friday December 9, 2022, 1-2:30pm Eastern

This is Part 1 of our series looking at Factors affecting colour perception

Abstract:

I will introduce color as physical phenomena in nature, lighting, and technology. My approach will be grounded in understanding light, and therefore color, as a wave phenomenon, who spectral properties can explain wide range of effects, from accent lighting, color temperature, mood lighting, illumination and reflectance spectra, to a wide range of optical illusions. I will cover a how different commonly available light sources, for example, the sun, incandescent bulbs, LEDs, and fluorescent lights, differ in terms of their spectra, and how light spectra can be measured and manipulated to produce a desired artistic or design effect.

Bio:

Mark Rosin is an associate professor of physics at the Pratt Institute and Executive Director at Guerilla Science, an international science and society organization. His work focuses on the connections between science, art, and culture, and their realizations in the public places and spaces that science is least expected. 

For the last seven years, Mark has taught a highly regarded course on the Science of Light, that covers topics in color theory, vision, illusions, and optics, from a fundamental physics perspective.

Mark is the winner of the Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Ashoka Foundation Emerging Innovator. 

Mark has worked at the University of California, Los Angeles and received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His work with Guerilla Science has been featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, and in VICE, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian, Wellcome Trust, Simons Foundation, NASA and Burning Man. 

Check out Mark’s Guerilla Science Organization

and a recent paper on Food for thought: Immersive storyworlds as a way into scientific meaning-making