Neuroenthusiasm meets neuroskepticism
We are pleased to announce the newest member of the AXNS team - Romy Lorenz as Public Engagement Curator. Here she writes of her background, and her motivations for joining.
Hooking up a brain to ...
Database Matter: An Art and Data Hack
Data science is often treated as hard fact whilst art tends to look at the world in shades of grey. In our new project AXNS Collective is exploring how art can inform the way data shapes our lives.
AXNS are ...
Everything you wanted to know about artificial intelligence… (Part I)
We’re already on the Starship Enterprise. But instead of boldly going where no man has gone before, our mission is to figure out what to have for dinner.
From the Terminator franchise to Alex Garland's c...
More visions of the future… (Part II)
"I think we're all slightly put out to not to have our hoverboards."
From the Terminator franchise to Alex Garland's critically acclaimed new blockbuster Ex_Machina, cinema is full of bold and troubling ...
What is Music and What is Sound Art? A Neuro-Historical Approach – Part 2
This is the second in a series of two articles by neuroscience student and musician Matt Gartry entitled ‘What is Music and What is Sound Art? A Neuro-Historical Approach’
Recap & Overview
Music and sou...
Migraine Auras & Vision Serpents
Artist Michael Markham writes of his work rendering and interpreting migraine auras
I get visual patterns projected onto my field of vision when I have a migraine. They start small and surround the center of m...
Fractured Visions Opening Night
After months in the planning and making, Fractured Visions: To See Again launched on Thursday 25th September. The evening was, by all accounts, a great success.
Everyone congregated at 6pm in front...
What is Music and What is Sound Art? A Neuro-Historical Approach
This is the first in a series of two articles by neuroscience student and musician Matt Gartry entitled ‘What is Music and What is Sound Art? A Neuro-Historical Approach’
The Problem
I owe a lot...
Fractured Visions: Questions from the first meeting
This is the third blog post in a series on the collaboration between neuropsychiatrist Dominic ffytche and artist Tamiko Thiel in creating an augmented reality installation around the visual perceptual disorder...
Martin Kemp on neuroscience and aesthetics
This is the third in a series of posts by each of the speakers from our panel debate, “In The Mind’s Eye: Can Neuroscience Teach Us Anything About The Aesthetic Experience? "
The data and images produced by...