LAST week we reported on naked tours of the “James Turrell: A Retrospective” exhibition currently showing at the National Gallery of Australia.

This week there’s something slightly less demanding on offer as part of the Gallery’s public programs, a discussion called “Let’s talk about perception” tomorrow, Wednesday, March 25 at 6pm.

This will be a panel discussion involving three ANU researchers in the fields of neuroscience, neuro psychology and the physics of light moderated by the exhibition’s curator Lucina Ward.

The speakers will be Professor Trevor Lamb, Visual Neuroscience, ANU with research interests in the conversion of light into neural signals, Emeritus Professor Hans Bachor, former director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, ANU and Associate Professor, Dr Mark Edwards, with a PhD in visual psychophysics from University of Melbourne followed by extensive research in optometry in Japan and the US.

The gallery says it’s a panel that isn’t just going to have a science or arts focus rather a discussion of both and it is not an academic panel – rather one for the ‘common man’.

James Turrell panel discussion “Let’s focus on perception,” James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA, 6pm, Wednesday, March 25, $20, $15 NGA members/concession, $5 students. Details at nga.gov.au/calendar/