Tag Archives: Mind

Life and nature in all its beauty and strength, fragility and disease, mortality and death.

Pascale’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation but is however steeped in solid scientific research and findings. Her inspiration is drawn from observing the internal and external human body in all its diversity, life and nature in all its beauty, strength, fragility, disease, mortality, immortality and death. New technologies and philosophies , quantum physics, nano technology, animatronics are amongst her interest and are important in her work.

When we split in two

George Petrou works mainly with moving image, photography, sculpture, performance, and video installation. His practice as a visual artist explores the human body; its strengths, promises, and boundaries. Deriving from this interest and alongside his individual practice George works as a Simulation Developer in Surgery creating highly realistic surgical phantoms, which mimic real-life tissue behaviour and anatomical structure.

Between beauty and disgust

“My work is surprising, raises questions, the fragile beauty is often associated with horror, even with disgust. Not only for the created work, but also for the violation of the integrity of the living being, for it is often necessary to be destructive in the method of research. This duality that I experience at any dissection or other research experience is part of my job. It would be an illusion to think that the final artwork remains untouched by it. And I notice that artists and scientists often dance on the same tightrope.”
With her training in psychology and art, Chantal Pollier shows the fragile, vulnerable body in its temporary presence. In this exclusive interview, she discusses her ideas and work.

The Greening of the Galaxy

Suzanne Anker is a pioneer in BioArt, working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her fastidious experimentation in a wide array of mediums and subjects, ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights, is an effort to push at the boundaries of BioArt and is an incitement of fearlessness and tenacity in the creation of scientific artworks. In The Greening of the Galaxy she presents images and objects that speak to the 21st century.

LaΒ. Bio-Conceptual Creations

Vasia Hatzi stands between two different worlds: Science and Art. With a BSc in Genetics and a PhD in Cytogenetics, she is continuously exploring the cellular world and investigates the mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Ιn 2012, Vasia created LaΒ., a hybrid world of Science and Art, as a child with two equally developed brain hemispheres. In the world of LaB., typical biological structures are transformed into unique bio-conceptual creations. Basic functions of life return to their primitive form. All equally combined, they embody the charm of a balanced and magnificent microcosm. In the world of LaΒ., Intelligence is the new Beauty.

Talking About Consciousness 2 (Blog)

Links to the Interalia Magazine blog, ‘Talking about Consciousness’, featuring – His Holiness The Dalai Lama: The Relation between Matter & Consciousness ; Alva Noë : Why is Consciousness so baffling? ; Marvin Minsky on Consciousness ; J Krishnamurti: On the relationship between thought and consciousness ; Peter Russell: The Reality of Consciousness

Passing Thoughts

Susan Aldworth is an experimental printmaker and filmmaker referencing both neuroscience and philosophy in her work exploring human identity.

Significant recent shows include Susan Aldworth:The Portrait Anatomised at the National Portrait Gallery; Brains: The mind as matter, Wellcome Collection; Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology, Science Museum, London; and Images of the Mind, in Dresden and Brno. Her work is in many collections including the V&A, British Museum, Hunterian Museum and Wellcome Collection.

Exploring the Nature of Consciousness

By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. In this article, he explores the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness.