Week 7 - Neuroscience + Art

This week we looked at a topic of Neuroscience and Art together and how they work together. Throughout the course so far, we've seen the human body appear multiple times as a piece of art, whether it be a canvas for an expressive medium or the piece of artwork itself, Neuroscience pertains to one of the major organs in a human body, that being the human brain. The human brain is the most complex and most powerful machine known to man. With numerous capabilities for innovation and invention, the human brain is where creativity is born, and the reason why everything in this world today that is man-made is possible.

https://www.brightfocus.org/glaucoma/article/glaucoma-brain-disease

After watching a ted talk from Christopher deCharm, I quickly learned the relationship between Neuroscience/ the human brain and Art, where he uses the techniques of model making. Model making is the process of taking a new idea and creating it into a visual representation of that idea to help understand that idea easier. Through creating artistic models of the human brain, many forms of art can take place to create many different images about the human brain.

https://www.swapnascuisine.com/2014/11/model-of-human-brain-with-fondant.html

In addition to the model makings of the human brain, other artists such as Laura Jade, are creating portraits and sculptures of the human brain with lights lighting up veins and other areas of the brain to mimic movement within the human brain. Some people are also making sculptures and images for information about the human brain used for teaching specific parts of the brain like the Cerebrum, the Cerebellum, the Limbic System, and the Brain Stem, these areas of artwork allow further generations to understand information about the human brain to increase, and improve, as well as help guide understandings about diseases and illnesses related to the human brain and help discover possible cures for such diseases.

https://socratic.org/questions/how-many-parts-is-the-human-brain-divided-into-is-one-of-the-parts-the-hind-brai

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/.