(personal pictures) This week I went to the "Creating Fertile Ground ArtSci Collaboration" given by Austria Claudia Schnugg. I liked how she started off saying how usually Scientists and are not usually on the same page with their work but they in fact are very similar and can be used in collaboration to create world changing products. "Unicorn- A Fashionable Brain Scan." G.tec. N.p., 18 Apr. 2016. Web. 25 May 2017. One of the most interesting products that Schnugg discussed was the "Agent Unicorn". Agent Unicorn is a unicorn shaped head piece that has a camera that measure brain activity with share active dry electrodes. The horn shaped headpiece is used by people with ADHD and is used to help figure out what triggers their attention. When the attention of the user is high, the camera goes on and it record what is in front off the user. The headpiece was created in collaboration with neuroscientist, therapists, software and hardware. personal ...
http://www.educationnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/brian_scan.jpg Neuroscience joined with art has allowed for scientists to accurately map and model the brain. Mapping the brain has helped scientists see the many functions of each part of the brain, and to see if the brain is functioning correctly. A fMRI, an example of brain mapping, allows for images of the brain to be seen by doctors to see if the brain is functioning correctly. Suzanne Anker used fMRI's as a form of art by superimposing butterflies as an overlay on the fMRI which gives somewhat of an optical illusion for the viewer. Anker's technique influences scientists to continue the work to gain more information about the brain. http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v10/n11/fig_tab/nrn2736_F2.html In the article "Neuroculture", neuroculture is defined as "The interaction between art and science offers an opportunity to make the scientific community and the public aware of the social and ethi...
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