Landscapes of the Mind explores, among other things, creative realms and states of consciousness, art and neurodiversity, the connected and multifaceted brain, dreams and mental imagery, ecology and sculpture.
Contributions include –
Judith Alder is a British visual artist with a multi-faceted practice, working across a range of media and processes. Central to her work is a fascination with biology, physics and the history of scientific endeavour and science fiction. In her latest show, Vital Signs, she assembles a body of interconnected works grounded in research and inspired by accessible science communicators and visionary writers like HG Wells, Primo Levi, Kazuo Ishiguro and Stanislaw Lem.
In Unlocking a shift in perspective: The secret is hidden deep within the folds of our brains, textile artist, Chrys Zantis, explores the mystery and complexity of our brains and different perspectives of (un)conscious experiences. The works extend on current neuroscience research–conveying the internal workings of our brains.
Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway have worked together since the early 1990’s, developing large scale performances, multimedia installations and site-specific work, usually in collaboration with organizations and experts across many specialized fields. In 2013 they developed Foghorn Requiem, a requiem for disappearing sound, performed by the Souter Lighthouse foghorn, three brass bands and fifty ships out in the North Sea. In this interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, he discusses this work as well as their other projects.
Cecelia Chapman is a Massachusetts based artist, born in San Francisco. Her work revolves around video, essay, storytelling, and works on paper and merges the documentary and experimental. Planet of Dreams 2022, follows a personal dream journey across continent and through time, observing how dream guides us. Planet of Dreams asks ‘in what ways can the dream state guide us?’
Visual artist, writer, and educator, Taney Roniger, discusses Visual Art and the Veracity of Touch. Since the late 90s she has been exploring the relationship between art, science, and the spirituality of immanence in both her work as an artist and in numerous essays and symposia.
LYU, SHAOFAN is a contemporary artist and Professor at The Fine Arts Academy of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. His recent monumental public sculpture, Light of the Flourishing Age, is an excellent example of the current mode of collaborative thinking, development and experimentation combining art, science and technology which is taking place all over China today. His project was the first landscape sculpture directly associated with high-speed trains, known as ‘Gaotie’, in China. In this article, professor and sculptor Billy Lee, discusses the development and creation of this public sculpture.
An artist with a deep sense of working with the ‘poetic imagination, Helen Garrett discusses her work and the ‘conversation’ she has with her work during its creation in Landscapes of the Mind. Her interest lies in the multi-dimensional nature of consciousness, with paintings evolving and developing as different images emerge.
Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University.
Plus, there are articles by –
Don Arnold: Where are memories stored in the brain? New research suggests they may be in the connections between your brain cells.
Alice Gorman – Looking back from beyond the Moon: how views from space have changed the way we see Earth.
Szonya Durant: Eye movement science is helping us learn about how we think.
Amanda Tink: Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative process
And, Poems by Lynne Goldsmith