Join artist Al Hopwood and his collaborator experimental psychologist Steven Frenda for an online talk and discussion about their experiment “Perspectives on News Events" that has been running throughout the Psyche exhibition. From 1st April to 8th May 2022 Frenda and Hopwood presented a survey to visitors of Psyche that claimed to "examine the public’s thoughts and perspectives on news and current events” in order to "understand how people think about news events in relation to their everyday lives”. In reality the survey presented two entirely invented news items alongside eight real news reports from the Indian press. The participants were initially unaware of this deception and they were required to complete a form that indicated their political preferences and what they remembered from each event. All participants were then fully briefed about the purpose of the study and asked to guess which stories were false. The results of the study will it is hoped give some insight into how false memories of fake events are influenced by our pre-existing beliefs. Hopwood and Frenda will reveal some early findings from the study at the event and talk more about the nature of their collaboration.
Sign up for the programmeAl Hopwood has in the past collaborated extensively with scientists on his False Memory Archive International Touring project. For further information please visit www.falsememoryarchive.com
Erased UFOs: A collection of found UFO images with all evidence of the UFOs removed, presented in 242 used frames. 2012-2014 (https://www.falsememoryarchive.com/erased-ufos)
Unknown by Unknown. 2014. Site specific collaboration for Talbot Rice Gallery with Professor Sergio Della Sala (University of Edinburgh) (https://www.falsememoryarchive.com/unknown-by-unknown)
Exit Latency Silences 2013. A collaboration with Dr. James Ost (University of Portsmouth) (https://www.falsememoryarchive.com/exit-latency-silences)
Hot Air, 2013. A collaboration with Dr. Kimberley Wade (University of Warwick) (https://www.falsememoryarchive.com/hot-air)