Featuring – Sam Harris: Can we build AI without losing control over it? ; Monica Byrne: A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram ; Juan Enriquez What will humans look like in 100 years? ; and Kevin Kelly: 12 Inevitable Tech Forces That Will Shape Our Future.
Mint Labs has created a cloud-based neuroimaging platform with data management, analysis, and 3D visualisation capabilities, using advanced MRI technology to look inside the brain.
Featuring – Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain ; Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight ; Ed Boyden: A new way to study the brain’s invisible secrets ; Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind ; and Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds.
Featuring – Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain ; Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight ; Ed Boyden: A new way to study the brain’s invisible secrets ; Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind ; and Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds.
Featuring – Sir Ken Robinson: Can Creativity Be Taught? ; an interview with David Cope ; ‘Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius’: a discussion between Brian Greene, R. Douglas Fields, Philip Glass, Rex Jung, Dean Keith Simonton, Julie Taymor and Marcus du Sautoy ; and ‘Madness Redefined: Creativity, Intelligence and the Dark Side of the Mind’: a discussion between James Fallon, Kay Redfield Jamison, Susan McKeown and Elyn Saks
Tor-Finn Malum Fitje is a Norwegian artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. His projects are typically manifested through narratives in video and sound, although textual production is likewise an evident aspect of this process. His activity borders scientific research, a position strongly reflected in the finished artworks. Questions regarding the nature of sensory and linguistic reproductions, of metaphors and cognition, of myth and physical theory, and of poetry and the natural sciences, are reoccurring subjects of interest.
Dr Simon F. Park is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey, where he teaches Microbiology and Molecular Biology. For nearly 10 years now, he has also worked at the fertile intersection between art and science and here, his practice has been inspired by the aesthetics and processes of the usually invisible microbiological and chemical world. As well as collaborating with artists, he also produces his own work. ‘Crystal Worlds’ is an example.
“Humans are energy fields…….The distinguishing feature which makes humans (or any form of life) special is the energetic relationships between the materials from which we’re made.”
David Glowacki is a scientist, artist, and cultural theorist. A Royal Society Research Fellow based at the University of Bristol, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University, one of his cross-disciplinary projects is the multi-award winning ‘danceroom Spectroscopy / Hidden Fields’, which has been touring internationally over the past few years. In this exclusive interview he discusses these projects, the aesthetics of scientific imagination and the fusion of scientific and artistic practice.
Drew Berry is a biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. His scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich visualizations are elucidating cellular and molecular processes for a wide range of audiences. His animations have been shown in exhibitions, multimedia programs and television shows, and have received international recognition including an Emmy (2005) and a BAFTA Award (2004).
Günes-Hélène Isitan is a professional transdisciplinary artist; her practice, anchored in biomedia arts, is an interweaving of visual and interactive art, life sciences and philosophy.
Inspired by contemporary issues, she uses microorganisms to explore the cultural barriers humans have built in the life continuum, questioning the Nature/Culture dichotomy and offering a new perspective on our relationship to non-human agents. Through her visual pieces and her installations, she strives to offer an experience of different relations to the worlds, where the body-subject is neither isolation nor limit, but a permeable zone, open and ready to affect and be affected by the interactions with the non-human, the more-than-human.