BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260412T100217CEST-00296szkOS@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260412T080217Z DESCRIPTION:Alongside the Virtual Cinema presentation of the new film In Si lico\, the Museum will host a live online conversation between director No ah Hutton and \;renowned neuroscientist and consciousness researcher C hristof Koch\, moderated by \;Associate Curator of Science and Film So nia Epstein.\n\n Free with RSVP. An email will be sent one hour before the event begins\, with information about joining the live program. Please no te New York time zone / ET. \; \n\n\n  \; \n \n \n Watch \;In Silico in the Museum's Virtual Cinema here. \n \n \n About the film: Ten years in the making\, In Silico charts a renowned neuroscientist’s decade -long attempts to simulate the human brain on supercomputers. The filmmake r\, initially drawn in by the project’s audaciousness\, gathers observatio ns and critiques from a range of experts in the field\, and must ultimatel y come to terms with the limitations and his own expectations regarding su ch an enormous undertaking. In Silico was supported in part by a productio n grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. \; \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n A bout the speakers: \n\n\n \n Noah Hutton is a writer and director of docu mentary and narrative films. He was nominated for the 2021 Independent Spi rit Award for Best First Screenplay for Lapsis\, a sci-fi feature he wrote \, directed\, scored\, and edited\, which premiered in the narrative featu re competition at SXSW 2020 and was acquired by Film Movement for theatric al release in 2021. His documentary feature In Silico\, a ten-year film be gun in 2009 and supported by Sandbox Films and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundat ion\, premiered at DOC NYC in 2020. Previously he directed the documentary features Deep Time (SXSW 2015) and Crude Independence (SXSW 2009). \n \n \n Christof Koch is a neuroscientist best known for his work on conscious ness. He is the President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Chi ef Scientist of the MindScope Program. In collaboration with Francis Crick \, he initiated the modern search for the neuronal correlates of conscious ness\, and in collaboration with Giulio Tononi he co-developed the Integra ted Information Theory of consciousness. He is the author of Consciousness : Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist\, The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach\, Biophysics of Computation: Information Processi ng in Single Neurons\, and Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Ions to Netw orks. His latest book\, The Feeling of Life Itself – Why Consciousness Is Everywhere But Can’t Be Computed\, was published by MIT Press in 2019. \n \n \n DTSTART:20210502T180000 DTEND:20210502T190000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image SUMMARY:In Silico Discussion with Noah Hutton and Christof Koch END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR