‘enchanted loom’ - art-science workshop… crossing the boundaries between science and art.....
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‘Enchanted Loom’ - Art-science workshop…
Crossing the boundaries between science and art..Image credit: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging – University of Southern California and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project
Image credit :Christine Daniloff/MIT
“swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern – always a meaningful pattern”
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington: 1857-1952
An extraordinary man…
A scientist…
Credit Wellcome Images
A scientist…
Credit: Heidi Cartwright, Wellcome Images
Neurons…
Credit Dr Hermann Cuntz & Prof. Michael Häusser, UCL, Wellcome Images
A box of wonders…
“We must learn to teach the best attitude to what is not yet known”
- What would you like to learn about in science?- What do you think we’ll never fully understand?
Art-science…
Draw around your body and draw and paint in nerves/ muscles..
What do different bits do?
Nerve/muscle portraits…
“all man can do is to move things”
Credit Miles Kelly Art Library, Wellcome Images
Nerves controlling muscles
Credit: Tom Gillingwater, Wellcome Images
Credit John Wildgoose, Wellcome Images
Credit Hermann Aberle, University of Munster, Wellcome Images
Make a bit of brain…“The whole crust of the brain is one thick tangled jungle of exchanges and of branching lines going thither and coming thence”
Draw a neuronMake a bit of a brain
Credit Dr Jonathan Clarke, Wellcome Images
Draw a picture of you and your brain..Imagine what’s happening insideWrite/draw/poetry
Credit Mark Lythgoe & Chloe Hutton, Wellcome Images Credit Patrick Hales, UCL, Wellcome Images
What’s inside your head?
Box of wonders...
Look at brain slices…Make brain art…
Quotes…
“it is as though our mind were a pool of which movements on the surface only are what we experience”
“step by step things shape. There appear, tiny a first, what to the eye of the expert are recognisable as rudiments of parts of the future creature”
With great thanks to:
Recommendations for further links/resources
www.humanconnectomeproject.orgg
https://history.medsci.ox.ac.uk/cslide/
Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging – University of Southern California and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project