Week 7 - Neuroscience + Art

Throughout this course, we've seen an underlying theme of the human body as a piece of art, and humanity as an entire movement within the field. This week looks at what runs the human body, and what the creativity to create art comes from: the brain. The brain is quite possibly the most powerful machine that we know of, which we see in Christopher deCharms's Ted Talk. 65,000 points of activation per second are what he shows you in real time as he looks into the brain. deCharms makes a connection into art through model making. Model making is what I focused on last week as the core string that holds together science and art.

deCharms is obviously not the first person to see this type of model making as an art. Greg Dunn is seen as a pioneer in the art industry with his colourization of what we usually seen from brain scans. Laura Jade is another one of these artists, she creates a sculpture of lights that mimics the brain's movement. Frazzetto and Anker's article focuses on what type of a culture that is being created with this increased understanding of the brain that we have more and more now. Something as seemingly trivial as a TV commercial can be considered neuroculture, as it transfers neuroscience lingo and terms into our everyday society. Carl Jung on the other hand, looks at it from the opposite angle. How does our everyday participation in life relate to this complex science of our conciousness?














Sources:

deCharms, Christopher. “A Look inside the Brain in Real Time.” TED, Feb. 2008, www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_scans_the_brain_in_real_time. 

Frazzetto, Giovanni, and Suzanne Anker. “Neuroculture.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 10, no. 11, 2009, pp. 815–821., doi:10.1038/nrn2736. 

Jung, Carl G. “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man.” Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 10: Civilization in Transition, 2014, pp. 74–94., doi:10.1515/9781400850976.74.

Shenova. “Let Gorgeous Neuroscience-Inspired Art Bring Some Joy to Your Day.” Shenova, 13 Feb. 2018, shenovafashion.com/blogs/blog/neuroscience-art-gallery. 

“Your ‘Miracle’ Brain, in Full Color: Neuroscience Art.” Migraine Again, 6 Apr. 2019, migraineagain.com/neuroscience-art-miracle-of-brain-dunn/.