St Valentine: Patron Saint of Epilepsy
Bryan Ceronie & Gerhard Kluger
St Valentine, the Chaucerian saint of romantics and lovers is a prominent figure in the Catholic calendar. But his other role, as the patron saint of epilepsy, is less wid...
AXNS Journal
This is a collection of articles exploring the intersection between art and neuroscience.
If you would like to contribute, send a 250 word pitch to rachel(at)axnscollective.org
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An Encounter with Loss of Signal?
Deborah Humm is a visual artist who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. Her 2013 Installation Loss of Signal? challengers her audiences’ coordination skills to convey the sense of frustration and self-consciousnes...
Sensory Sense : Learning from the spectrum
Using experiential installation works based on autistic sensory experiences, artist Becky Lyddon aims to educate and increase awareness of autism. Over four articles Lyddon will be taking us on a journey throug...
A Taste of Iceland: Art, Science and Exploration
Our aim was to use “food to evoke and provoke essential states of the mind which otherwise cannot be evoked and provoked” Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook.
What would Iceland taste, smell and feel like if y...
Call for submissions – New Journal of Art & Science
Call for submissions / /AXNS Collective – Journal of Art & Science
A new online platform for cutting edge thought on visual and performance art and their interaction with science and technology. Featurin...
Artists & Academics
Artists Featured in Affecting Perception 2013
Mervyn Peake
Peake was an accomplished artist, poet, novelist and playwright, who is thought to have suffered from rare form of neurodegenerative diseas...
Affecting Perception Catalogue
Exhibition Catalogue
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Featuring interviews with the artists and articles by leading neuroscientists, psychologists and art historians.
Exhibition Leaflet
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Partners
We are working with the following charities and groups:
Epilepsy Action is the UK's largest member-led epilepsy organisation. The charity helps 1,0...
In The Mind’s Eye: Can Neuroscience Tell Us Anything About Aesthetics?
Can neuroscience teach us anything about the aesthetic experience?
Neuroaesthetics is the study of the neural correlates of beauty; how the brain interests aesthetically pleasing phenomena and how sensory perc...