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Andrew Carnie
 
03.05.2006,
11:46
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I have just been over in the USA setting up a work entitled Magic Forestin a show titled Neuroculture. The show is at the Westport Art Centre, 51 Riverside Avenue, Connecticut.
The show is on until the 25th May 2006. For information phone (203) 222-7070.
Neuroculture: Visual Art & The Brain
Curated by Suzanne Anker & Giovanni Frazzetto
About the Exhibition:
Being informed about the progress that the neurosciences have made in the last two decades has significant consequences for the public at large. An educated scientific knowledge allows a more considered perception of the immediate benefits and dangers that can be drawn from scientific study. More importantly, it allows a balanced appreciation of the social and ethical issues raised by the new technologies. With this in mind, we would like to bring science and the public together. The interaction of art, science and society is recognized internationally as an essential avenue for innovation and intervention, and as a way to explore, envision and critique possible futures. The works in this exhibition bear reference to the philosophical and social significance of neuroscience findings and procedures. And because museums and art galleries are social spaces, they afford an opportunity where the cultural imaginary can meet the obsessively rational.
Artists: Suzanne Anker ⢠Andrew Carnie ⢠Giovanni Frazzetto ⢠Frank Gillette ⢠Buhm Hong ⢠Steve Miller ⢠Warren Neidich ⢠Michael Rees ⢠Alan Scarritt ⢠Mary Ann Strandell ⢠Fred Tomaselli ⢠Hanneke van Velzen
Magic Forest[/b] has been shown quite widely in Europe as part of similar exhibitions which deal with the theme of the brain and the head. It was made for an exhibition at the Science Museum in London called âHead Onâ. The work arose from collaboration with Dr Richard Wingate, of the Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurology, at Kings College, London. The work tracks the development, proliferation, and organisation of neurones in the growing brain. The work reflects 1. The changing organisation in the brain, developing to being capable of holding memories, and 2, The process of collecting the raw data for such scientific work through the use of the laser confocal microscope.
The work starts with the location of the growing brain in the skull and proceeds with an ever-growing forest of neurones developing on the screens; the mass increases, filling the whole screen with layers and layers of neurones in different colours. The work ends when the system collapses and the neurones disappear, blackness returns and the skull is shown again getting larger and larger and the work begins to cycle around once more. Each cycle lasts about fifteen minutes. The colours in the work reflect the fluorescence used and seen in the staining of individual neurones, which produce the images under the confocal microscope.
I continue to make work with scientists and I and others in the exhibition Neuroculture especially the curators Suzanne Anker and Giovanni Frazzetto are interested in making contacts with other artists and scientist working in this field.
name: ANDREW CARNIE
email: andrewcarnie@tram.ndo.co.uk
homepage: www.andrewcarnie.co.uk
address: (optional)
subject:Neuroculture
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Julia Buntaine
18.06.2012,
18:25
@ Andrew Carnie
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Hi there -
I'll introduce myself firstly as a fellow neuro-artist, often making what I like to call NeuroSculpture. I work for Cynthia Pannucci of ASCI.org which is how I came to reading your post about the NEUROCULTURE exhibit. I realized immediately that I have seen your work before and loved it (I believe it was your exhibition of Magic Forest at William's College a few years ago). Starting this fall I will be in SVA's MFA program and had already been planning to track down Suzanne Anker. I have been creating neuroscience based sculptures for a few years now and am eager to make connections with other like-minded artists... there aren't many of us! If you get a chance, feel free to take a look at my work on my website, and I sincerely hope we cross paths someday!
Julia Buntaine
www.JuliaBuntaine.com
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