You'll Never Look At Art The Same Way Again
Experience Art.
Embrace
Mindfulness.
Connect +
See.
What is the Museum Mediation Experience?
The Museum Meditation Experience offers a transformative journey through 5,000 years of human creativity, designed to engage your senses and foster a new connection with art. Curated by Gene Seidman, this immersive experience uncovers the hidden stories within paintings, sculptures, and artifacts, encouraging a deeper, more visceral understanding.
In contrast to traditional museum tours, this experience invites you to slow down, allowing art to enrich your mind and spirit. It's an opportunity to become immersed in beauty and rediscover yourself through the process, emphasizing feeling over thinking.
Here's what awaits:
Deep Observation: Your perception is sharpened to uncover intricate details and layers of meaning in both well known and lesser known modern works that are often overlooked.
Mindful Reflection: Participants let go of external distractions while listening to improvisational piano music by Murray Hidary (MindTravel), as Gene leads a mindful observation connecting art to personal thoughts, emotions, and memories.
Meaning Discovery: The journey brings to life the stories behind each artwork, exploring history, culture, techniques, and symbolism to reveal their resonance with universal human experiences and individual lives.
This 2-hour journey promises to transform how you see and experience art — deeply, meaningfully, memorably.
״The difference between LOOKING and SEEING...
...is AWARNESS.״
Welcome To The Science of Neuroasthenics
Several areas of the brain are activated when viewing art affecting visual processing, emotional response and memory formation.
The primary visual cortex processes the visual information of an artwork - color, shape, form, and texture, helping to identify the artwork.
The amygdala and other limbic structures process human emotion leading to a range of responses such as awe, joy, sadness, or disgust.
The hippocampus creates visual memories while encoding and storing information about the artwork, such as its visual features, emotional impact, and contextual information.
Research indicates that looking at art activates the brain's reward pathways, of the ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex, enabling human beings to experience beauty and aesthetic pleasure.
Gene Seidman invites tour-goers to embrace the joy and become awe-inspired by the breathtaking art.
Warning: this experience may lead to a rapid heartbeat, and shortness of breath known as an “ART ATTACK.” No cardiologist needed!
Street Cred
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As much as I thought I knew about art, having worked in the industry, Gene’s Museum Meditation Experience has given me a more personal appreciation and insight into each piece that I view. Seeing artwork through this new lens will have a profound impact on how I represent an artist’s work."
Yves, NYC / Art-lover / MoMA, New York
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