TED, TV & RADIO

Mark is regularly interviewed on TV and radio about his research and entrepreneurial endeavors, some of which can be found below.

He has appeared on two episodes of National Geographic's Brain Games, including this online teaser, and as the de facto science host of the first season of Discovery Channel's Head Games in 2013, and you can see him promoting it here on MSNBC. You may have also seen him on the Emmy-nominated Mindfield.

He has several TED talks:
(1) why we see illusions
(2) why fingers get pruney
(3) health blindness and why we have color vision

Subscribe to his YouTube channel.

KEYNOTES & TALKS

• The Origins of Language, Writing and Music. Keynote, INSCRIBE: The Invention of Writing Workshop. Italy, 2021
• Why We See. Keynote at VividVT Optometry Conference, 2020.
  
• The Emotion Chip: A new grand theory of emotional expressions, and its applications for affective computing and emotional AI.
  Caltech, Pasadena, 2019.
• The Emotion Chip: A new grand theory of emotional expressions, and its applications for affective computing and emotional AI.
  Microsoft, Redmond, 2019.
• Human 2.0: The Hidden Tech Revolution Shaping Us
  Keynote Speaker, Global Variations, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2018.
• What are Big Brains For? We have no Idea!
  Endnote Speaker, Empowerment Summit, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2018.
• smART
  Keynote Speaker, Opening Reception to Faces of Columbus Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Columbus, 2018.
• X-ray Vision Through the World, Your Face, and Emotions
  Keynote Speaker, International Conference Behavioral Optometry, Sydney, 2018.
• Complexion, Illusion & Junction Function
  Keynote Speaker, International Conference Behavioral Optometry, Sydney, 2018.
• Harnessed in Art
  Invited Speaker, Ohio Arts League, 2017.
• Harnessed
  Invited Speaker, University of Oslo, 2015.
• Vision Revolution
  Invited Speaker, University of Oslo, 2015.
• Health Blindness
  TEDx, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 2015.
• Self-Visible Face
  Invited Speaker, Japan, 2014.
• Harnessed
  Invited Speaker, Japan, 2014.
• Harnessed
  Invited Speaker, Ghent conference, 2014.
• Harnessing and Art
  Invited Speaker, MONA museeum, 2014.
• Omes that Matter: Teleome, Nature-ome, Culture-ome
  Invited Speaker, Santa Fe Institute, 2013.
• Harnessing Apes for Art
  Invited Speaker, RISD, 2013.
• Nature-Harnessing in Writing. ...and Language and Music
  Invited Speaker, Brown University, 4/2013.
• Harnessed
  Invited Speaker, Florida Gulf Coast University, 2013.
• Vision Revolution
  Invited Speaker, Florida Gulf Coast University, 2013.
• Nature-Harnessing in Writing. ...and Language and Music
  Invited Speaker, Columbia University, 1/2012.
• Future Illusions
  Invited Speaker, TED, 11/2012.
• Nature-Harnessing in Writing. ...and Language and Music
  Invited Speaker, Caltech, 5/2012.
• Nature-Harnessing and the Evolution of Art
  Invited Speaker, Lafayette College, 4/2012.
• Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
  Invited Speaker, Rockefeller University, 2/2012.
• Vision rEvolution
  Invited Speaker, Museum of the Image, Amsterdam, NL, 12/2011.
• Vision Revolution
  Keynote Speaker, Harold A. Stein Lecture, JCAHPO, Orlando, FL, 10/2011.
• Harnessed: The Nature in Language and Music
  Neurohumanities Talk Series, Duke University, 9/2011.
• Harnessed
  Lucid NYC, NYC, 9/2011.
• Harnessed
  SciFoo, GooglePlex, 8/2011.
• Harnessed, and Vision Revolution
  Invited Speaker, NY Hall of Science, NY, NY, 8/2011.
• How to Harness an Ape Brain for Art
  Keynote Speaker, Faculty Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, 3/2011.
• How to Harness an Ape Brain for Art
  Keynote Speaker, Faculty Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 3/2011.
• The Vision Revolution
  Invited Speaker, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 3/2011.
• The Evolution of Color, Illusions, Forward-Facing Eyes and Writing for Humans...and Aliens
  Banquet Speaker, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (SPIE), San Franciscio, CA, 1/2011.
• Vision REvolution.
  Invited Speaker, Rusutsu Neuroscience Workshop, Japan, 1/2011.
• Music -- Language -- Sound and Nature
  Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY, 11/2010.
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Clarkson University, 10/2010.
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Hamilton College, 9/2010.
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Keynote Speaker, Shoppers Insights, Chicago, 7/2010.
• Alien Vision Revolution
  Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, 4/2010
• Differentiation and Compartmentalization in Villages.
  Mini-Symposium on Cognitive Social Networks, RPI, 4/2010
• Nature-Harnessing.
  NEEPS, 3/2010
• The Vision Revolution.
  BSU, 3/2010
• Panel Discussion with Chris Salter.
  EMPAC, RPI, 3/2010
• Harnessed: How to Transform Ape to Man.
  Skidmore College, 2/2010
• The Vision Revolution.
  Designers Lighting Forum of New York, NYC, 1/2010
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Department of Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 11/09.
• Vision, Aliens and Evolution.
  Celebration for the 150th anniversary of The Origins of Species, Secular Student Alliance, RPI, NY, 11/09.
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Department of Psychology, SUNY Albany, NY, 11/09.
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Counselors to American Small Business (SCORE), Albany, NY, 10/09.
• Alien Vision Revolution.
  Albany Area Amateur Astronomers, Schenectady, NY, 10/09.
• How to harness an ape brain for language.
  Invited Speaker, MURI Kick-Off for Unified Theories of Language and Cognition, RPI, 7/09.
• The look and sound of nature in language and music.
  Keynote Address, International Conference on Iconicity, Toronto, Canada, 6/09.
• The illusory present
  Keynote Speaker, University in High School program, Greenwich Central School, Greenwich, NY, 6/09.
• Nature, physics and the origins of language
  Albany Region Neuroscience Chapter, Albany Medical College, NY, 5/09.
• How to co-opt an ape brain for language and art
  Invited Speaker, 9th Annual Colloquium on Cognition and Learning, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), RPI, 5/09.
• Evolution and visual displays
  Sharp Labs, Camas, WA, 5/09.
• Advolution: Evolution of advertising
  Palio Communications, Saratoga Springs NY, 2/09.
• Visual Computation
  RPI Association for Computing Machinery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, 2/09.
• Verbose, unfocused, crazy, aloof, uppity, and lazy: My keys to success. In the context of Why we have forward-facing eyes
  "Behind the Science", Sigma Phi Epsilon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, 9/08.
• Harnessing the visual brain.
  Meeting of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Atlanta, GA, 8/08.
• The structures of letters and symbols throughout human history are selected to match those found in objects in natural scenes,
  Invited Speaker, Vision Science Society, Naples, FL, 5/08.
• What's binocular vision for, anyway?,
  Center for Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology, Albany Medical Center, 3/08.
• What's binocular vision for, anyway?,
  Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Connecticut, 11/07.
• What's binocular vision for, anyway?,
  Advanced Imaging Center, Albany Medical Center, 11/07.
• Big mammalian brain recipes,
  Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 9/07.
• Seeing the forest through the trees: X-ray vision and the evolution of forward facing eyes,
  Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2/07.
• Seeing the forest through the trees: X-ray vision and the evolution of forward facing eyes,
  Department of Psychology, UCLA, 12/06.
• Big mammalian brain recipes,
  Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA, 11/06.
• Letters from nature,
  Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, 10/06.
• Big mammalian brain recipes,
  Neurology Grand Rounds, UCLA, 10/06.
• Visual linguistics,
  Microsoft Typography Group, Redmond, WA, 6/06.
• Big brains,
  Psychology Department, University of Nevada, Reno, 2/06.
• Visual linguistics, and Why letters are shaped the way they are,
  Psychology Department, Franklin and Marshall College, 2/06.
• Why we see illusions, and why we see in color,
  Psychology Department, Franklin and Marshall College, 2/06.
• Visual linguistics, and Why letters are shaped the way they are,
  Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2/06.
• Visual linguistics, and Why letters are shaped the way they are,
  Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, 2/06.
• Visual linguistics, and Why letters are shaped the way they are,
  Seaver Foundation Program in Bioinformatics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2/06.
• Visual linguistics, and Why letters are shaped the way they are,
  Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, 1/06.
• Color, blood, skin and emotion: A general functional theory of color vision,
  Shimojo Implicit Brain Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Seminar, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 6/05.
• Big brains, and analogies with other complex networks,
  School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 3/05.
• Why letters are shaped the way they are,
  Department of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine, 1/05.
• Natural scene statistics and the structure of visual signs over human history,
  Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Brain Theory Program, UC Santa Barbara 9/04.
• The structures of letters throughout human history are selected to match those found in objects in natural scenes,
  Sloan-Swartz Theoretical Neurobiology Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 7/04.
• Complexity and redundancy of writing systems over human history,
  Perona Laboratory, Caltech, 5/04.
• Principles of connectivity and parcellation in neocortex and other networks,
  Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, 5/04.
• Principles of connectivity and parcellation in neocortex and other networks,
  Buszaki Laboratory, Rutgers, 5/04.
• How to (and not to) recognize the intelligent brains without seeing the behaviors,
  Astrobiology Science Conference [invited by SETI to speak at the session on Evolution of Intelligence], NASA Ames Research Center, 3/04.
• Complexity and redundancy of writing systems over human history,
  Complexity Club, Caltech, 3/04.
• Principles of connectivity and parcellation in the neocortex and other networks,
  School of Informatics, Indiana University, 2/04.
• Perceiving-the-present, a unifying framework for visual perception,
  Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Caltech, 1/04.
• Principles of connectivity and parcellation in neocortex.
  Sloan-Swartz Theoretical Neurobiology Meeting, Salk Institute, 7/03.
• Perceiving the present explains more than 50 illusion classes,
  Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, 7/03.
• A general framework for complex networks,
  Complexity Club, Caltech, 7/03.
• Perceiving the present, and a general ecological theory of illusions of projected size, projected speed, luminance contrast, and distance,
  Koch Laboratory, Caltech, 3/03.
• The principles shaping the neocortex, and comparison to other networks,
  Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Caltech, 3/03.
• The scarcity of universal languages in nature, and How to carve networks at their joints,
  Complexity Club, Caltech, 2/03.
• Latency correction explains the classical geometrical illusions,
  Perona Laboratory, Caltech, 11/02.
• Scaling of differentiation in networks, and an explanation for species-area plots,
  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 7/02.
• Scaling of differentiation in networks,
  Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University, 4/02.
• Why we see the classical illusions,
  Departments of Mathematics and Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 2/02.
• Why we see the classical illusions,
  Bryn Mawr College, 1/02.
• Latency correction explains the classical geometrical illusions,
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 3/01.
• Universal scaling laws in languages, organisms, behaviors and other combinatorial systems,
  Department of History and Philosophy and Science, Indiana University, 3/01.
• Latency correction explains the classical geometrical illusions,
  Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, 3/01
• Universal scaling laws in combinatorial sytems,
  Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1/01.
• Evolution of component-type, function and behavioral complexity,
  Department of Psychology, Duke University, 10/00.
• Perceiving the present,
  Department of Psychology, Duke University, 9/00.
• The network diameter of the neocortex,
  Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 5/00.
• VLSI animals: How animals save wire from head to toe,
  Department of Zoology, Duke University, 1/00.
• Principles underlying mammalian neocortical scaling,
  Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, 9/99.
• Towards a new logic and semantics for natural language,
  International Conference on Formal Methods, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 7/98.
• Vagueness and computation,
  Conference on Vagueness, Bled, Slovenia, 6/98.
• The Eureka phenomenon as a consequence of being finite,
  Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 2/98.
• Vagueness and undecidability,
  Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 2/97.
• Prior probabilities and the rule of succession,
  Recursion Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, 9/96.
• The paradigm of impossibility,
  Graduate Philosophy Colloquium, University of Maryland, 2/96.
• Fuzziness in classical two-valued logic,
  The Joint Conference of ISUMA/NAFIPS, University of Maryland, 9/95.
• Undecidability of analyticity in natural language,
  Graduate Philosophy Colloquium, University of Maryland, 3/95.
• Vagueness and undecidability,
  Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Virginia, 2/94.
• Proving Occam's razor,
  Inductive Inference Seminar, University of Maryland, 4/93.
• The ultimate epistemic constraints on prediction,
  Society of Physics Students, University of Virginia, 3/91.