Andrew Carnie: Science And Art

Images of the Mind Brno, Czech Republic

2011-12-13T15:54:00.000-08:00

Images of the Mind opens in Brno in the Czech Republic. It is open for four months, 9/12/2011 - 18/3/2012

"Photo: archive of the MoravianGallery in Brno"

This extensive and extraordinary exhibition prepared by the Moravian Gallery in Brno in collaboration with the Deutsche Hygiene Museum, straddles the line between artistic and scientiﬁc depiction of the human mind. It aims to present a comprehensive picture of the human mind as portrayed by different kinds and types of historical and contemporary, artistic and scientiﬁc images.

The exhibition will offer the visitors a unique chance to learn about this difﬁcult-to-capture phenomenon and will be as informative as it is aesthetically pleasing. The speciﬁc goal of the project is to highlight the opportunities and risks of the new depictions of the mind and to question the traditional boundary between scientiﬁc and artistic images and the values attributed and related to them. The project analysing "images of the mind" as a multi-faceted picture of man and his understanding of himself intends to initiate a broadly-based dialogue between science and culture.

The current dynamic development of neuroscience and cognitive sciences generates a need and opportunities for new forms of collaboration and dialogue between medical disciplines and the humanities, as well as between science and art. The project will give a glimpse of the history and circumstances of the process of "reading the mind from the pictures", and how different specialists – from philosophers via radiologists and psychoanalysts to art historians – interpret their images and how the mind appears to them in the images. The exhibition will display a wide scope of exhibits: from medieval medical tractates and illuminated manuscripts via medical illustration from the 19th century to current high-tech biomedicine images and visualizations. They will be accompanied by a broad spectrum of artistic expressions of various origins that depict the working of the mind – such as Renaissance portraits representing the "movement of the mind" or examples of Chinese landscape paintings created as clear metaphors of the human mind, works of art of classic modernism and contemporary art, including installations, new media and videoart. In addition to the above "iconography of the mind", the exhibition will offer exhibits working with formal structures in a more subtle way allowing a sensitive viewer a self-reﬂ ective view of the workings of his own mind at the moment when it is being confronted with the image.

Images of the Mind. DHMD, Dresden

2011-07-21T13:45:00.000-07:00

A few images of the Images of the Mind Exhibition, Dresden, Germany.

Rm 3. Andrew Carnie. Magic Forest, Images of the Mind, Dresden

Rm 2. Carlo Giacomini 1840 -1998, Images of the Mind, Dresden

Rm 2. General shot, Images of the Mind, Dresden

Rm 1. General shot including work by Helen Chadwick, Images of the Mind

Rm 3. Antony Gormley on the wall outside backed-out cube for

Magic Forest, Andrew Carnie, Images of the Mind

Rm 3. Brainbow on the wall outside backed-out cube for

Magic Forest, Andrew Carnie. Images of the Mind, Dresden

Rm 3. Magic Forest, Andrew Carnie, Images of the Mind, Dresden

Fundamentally Human: Contemporary Art and Neuroscience

2011-04-11T04:50:00.000-07:00

Fundamentally Human: Contemporary Art and Neuroscience

7 April - 3 July 2011

Fundamentally Human: Contemporary Art and Neuroscience exhibition brings the work of seven contemporary artists to the fore, whose work addresses aspects of the neurological sciences. Curated by BFA Fine Arts Department Chair of the School of Visual Arts in New York Suzanne Anker, the exhibition includes works by the artists Suzanne Anker (USA), Andrew Carnie (UK), Rona Pondick (USA), Michael Joaquin Grey (USA), Michael Rees (USA), Frank Gillette (USA) and Leonel Moura (Portugal).

Each interdisciplinary artist essentially employs new technologies ranging from robotics, 3-D scanning, Photoshop, rapid prototyping, microscopy and computational video. All are concerned with the mysteries and unity of nature and its processes, the transmission of knowledge and beliefs, and the reveries of human metaphors of being in time.

As the artists incorporate such metaphors invoked by matter, perception and memory, their discrete personifications are framed within a symbolic narrative.

This exhibition which combines science and art; invites us to view art through a scientific perspective and help us understand and question the strong connection between contemporary art and neuroscience.

Andrew Carnie Magic Forest at Pera Museum

Andrew Carnie Visual Artist

2011-03-05T10:09:00.001-08:00

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Andrew Carnie Visual Artist

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Coming of Age Exhibition Catalogue

2011-03-03T11:46:00.000-08:00

A PDF of the catalog for the exhibition Coming of Age can be found at the following web page:-

It is a very comprehensive catalogue and nicely produced.

http://www.tram.ndo.co.uk/Fray%202010.htm

The show which was on at the Great North Museum has just closed.

Coming of Age: the art and science of ageing

2011-01-14T02:40:00.000-08:00

Coming of Age: the art and science of ageing

in Newcastle at the Great North Museum: Hancock:

runs 12 Jan - 02 Mar 2011

The new installation is now up and running at the Great North Museum.

These are some recent shots of the work. Further information can be found at http://www.tram.ndo.co.uk/Fray%202010.htm

see Guardian article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/13/degas-renoir-masterclass-ageing-exhibition

This is a dynamic exhibition bringing together the scientific and artistic communities by exploring aspects of ageing and life expectancy.

Featuring works by Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henry Moore, Nicholas Nixon, John Coplans, Melanie Manchot, Carla Bromhead, Susie Rea, Valerie Laws, Susan Aldworth, Linda Fleming Jordan Baseman and Sharon Bailey, and new commissions by Annie Cattrell, Andrew Carnie and Jennie Pedley. Inspired by Newcastle University's Changing Age campaign, which seeks to challenge the negative perceptions about older people in society, Coming of Age uses art to explore how and why we age, the effects of ageing and the lives of older people through the eyes of both artists and scientists.

The exhibition is built around three themes of biology, frailty and vitality.

The central idea of addressing the Art and Science of Ageing is to recognise that the ageing process has its roots in the life sciences yet impacts on every dimension of human experience including the aesthetic. The aim is to build upon the enthusiasm of several members of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences who have identified possible contributions to the Changing Age program, including Fine Art, Music, the International Center for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Creative Writing and Culture Lab. This will be combined wherever possible with contributions from biologists, clinicians, psychologists, engineers and others, in the spirit of the sci-art collaborations that have been promoted by organisations such as the Wellcome Trust, Academy of Medical Sciences, and the British Academy. Currator Lucy Jenkins

2011-01-01T15:32:00.000-08:00

Just spent a day revamping my website and bringing it up to date after 4 years!

site is at

http://www.andrewcarnie.co.uk

the way we look 2010 from the print page

all the best for the new year Andrew

Coming of Age: the art and science of ageing

2010-12-18T03:30:00.000-08:00

Coming of Age: the art and science of ageing

12 Jan - 02 Mar 2011

This is a dynamic exhibition bringing together the scientific and artistic communities by exploring aspects of ageing and life expectancy.

The exhibition is built around three themes of biology, frailty and vitality.

Seized. Out of this world. new work

2009-07-07T09:40:00.000-07:00

SEIZED OUT OF THIS WORLD:
A visual exploration of temporal lobe epilepsy and its creative effects

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy has affected many creative individuals and is thought to be the source of much creative inspiration. Artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Fydor Dostoevsky are just two such significant artists who have suffered from this condition. The electrical storms associated with this condition are considered to cause a kind of cross pollination of ideas between different functional areas of the brain, giving the artists extraordinarily insightful visions, which feed into their creative practise. Much of the work and research that exists is very visual leading to a goldmine of information for a visual artist like myself interested in the visual and the underlying neurological condition.

2009-01-29T00:44:00.000-08:00

Eye: Through The Mirror Darkly 2004 Is a video projection piece. The images are projected onto a voile screen in the form of a truncated cone, the smaller part of the cone is fixed to the wall, the larger circumference floats perpendicular to the floor, away from the wall and into the gallery. The projected images consist of a series of stills, all based around medical-imaging techniques. The work is part of a project involved in looking at the ways concept of self have changed through images and ideas spawned by science. The work is 20 minutes in duration and was shown at the Picker Gallery Kingston in the show Slices and Snapshots, 2004.

Host

2009-01-29T00:21:00.000-08:00

Host. 2007 A three screen video piece includes the projection of three short video works of various lengths played together in cycles onto different screens. The videos are Withdraw 10 minutes, Dance 20 minutes, and Spin 14 minutes long, projected onto a black voile screens suspended just off the wall surface by 4 ins. In each projection a hand-drawn neural network gyrates and dances in relation to a moving human form over-laying or under-laying it in one form or another.

Slice

2009-01-28T15:57:00.000-08:00

Slice. 2004 Is a slide dissolve work using two projectors that sit at opposite ends of a space projecting sequences of images onto three semi-translucent screens that lie between them. The projected slides rise from one-side and then dissolve into images rising from the other-side. The images start with one of the top of a head and image-by-image move through the whole body to the toes, in about 81 slides. The same happens in reverse working back to the head in another 81 slides. As the sequence develops changes happen, the images move from realistic representations to more abstract diffuse forms, the body seems to move picking it self up and colours change, from black and white to full ‘bloody’ colour.

Magic Forest

2009-01-28T15:49:00.000-08:00

Magic Forest. 2002 Was made for the exhibition Head On in 2002, a show at the Science Museum on neurology and the brain. The work was produced in collaboration with Wellcome Foundation. The final work is a dream-like journey through a sea of developing neurones, expanding and expanding in number. The work was dependent on research about the Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramon Y Cahal and on the contemporary work of Dr Richard Wingate of the Medical Research Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College, London. Magic Forest was shown at the Science Museum in March 2002, at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, 2003 and at the Natuurmuseum, Rotterdam, a show called Mensbeeld, in 2004, in Simply Complex at the Design Museum in Zurich in 2005, and in Neuroculture, at the Westport Art Centre, Connecticut, USA in 2006. Two articles have appeared in the journal Nature about Magic Forest. A static version of the time-based piece is now based at the Wellcome Trust Headquarters, London.

Things Happen

2009-01-28T15:26:00.000-08:00

Things Happen. 2006
A time-based piece on the development of genetic diseases produced for Mendel Museum, Abbey Of St Thomas, Brno, Czech Republic, where the Abbot Gregor Mendel completed his famous studies on sweet peas, which revealed the basic laws of heredity. The work was planned as a piece that explored some of the various genetic diseases that affect mankind and at how a view of 'self' is developed, how we can now see we are so closely linked to one another, through the revelations made by geneticist's, as they uncover how diseases are transmitted through the corruption of our genetic code. The work developed through dynamic conversations with Bernadette Modell, Professor of Community Genetics, [Dept of Primary Care and Population Science, Royal Free Hospital and University College London, School of Medicine] and Dr Caterina Albiano of Artakt, Central St Martins School of Art, London. Each section of the work takes a condition and applies it to a body until it has its final outcome most often in the destruction of the body. Some of the conditions are fatal and some are not; they may affect the blood and lymph system, the digestive system, or the muscle and bone system and include: fibrous dysplasia, achondroplasia and alkaptonuria.

WAWWA

2009-01-27T14:46:00.000-08:00

WAWWA. 2006 With Arts Council Funding and linked with neuro-architects and scientists the work We Are Where We Are was developed for the Space, Architecture and the Mind conference March 2006, part of Art and Mind, www.artandmind.org. The work, an examination of the architecture of the body, is projected by eight slide projectors onto a square of voile screens. The piece can be viewed from inside or outside the square. Through a sequence of slides, the various systems and component structures of the body come and go on a gigantic scale and walking figures come and go through the body forms created. Prints from the work were exhibited in the London Print Studio Gallery in 2006.

Calcium Caving

2009-01-27T14:16:00.000-08:00

Calcium Caving. 2003 Images of the skull in mid-sagital cross section repeatedly advance increasing in scale. Starting as a dot on the screen the skull gets bigger and bigger and fills the screen until another cycle begins and then another. At times the cycle deviates from this norm and the image devolves into spongy bone formations or expands on the river like formations in the skull where cerebral arteries have impressed themselves on the bone, or a large numbers of cross sections sit upon one another like a cross section through a tree. Shown at the Winchester Gallery in the show 451 and at the British Association Festival Of Science, Exeter, in 2003. 162 images lasts about 22 minutes.

Complex Brain

2009-01-27T14:04:00.000-08:00

Complex Brain; Spreading Arbour. 2004. Andrew worked on this project with the neurologist Dr Richard Wingate, of the Developmental Neurology Department, Kings College, London. Together they created a time based video work based on the development and changes in the growing brain; looking specifically at the migration of neurones out of the brain and into the body. The work uses two video projectors circling around a double-layered 8-meter circular voile screen in opposing directions to project the animated drawings of the neurones streaming through the body. A Wellcome Trust Medicine In Society Award funded this work. The work is 25 minutes in duration. This work was first shown at British Association Festival Of Science, Exeter, in 2003. The exhibition included the works Magic Forest and Calcium Caving.