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Ecke Gallery meetings prepare 2 different approaches regarding art and neuroscience. One approach promotes artists that work on neuroscience concepts. “Can art help neuroscience? Can contemporary art concur to solve and explain philo­sophical problems? Can art
suggest new ways to develop scientific re­search? Can art build, invent, create languages that can be useful for scientific research?
The creative and innovation role of art regains its own investigation position. 

 The second approach proposes to neuroscientists possible complementary experiments based on research in “symbolic language” related to history of art.
Can neuroscience help to better understand what art is? –
Thought this approach we try to concentrate investigation efforts in an historical and evolutionary point of view to art. 


Contemporary art is an extremely moving phenomena, studying some precise aspect of artistic language production,   at least until the  XIX century, seem to us a solution to avoid dispersive strategies.
This particular approach has been selected to be an alternative and complementary direction on art and neuroscience researches.
The topics selection has been made on the purpose to be empirically addressed and tested.  Curators, art critics, theorist of art and artists can give a fundamental contribution.


 The last Ecke Gallery meeting - n° 10 -hosted in kaleidoskop Gallery  on 20th November-

has been a successful experience that gave us an opportunity to create  5 groups, each composed by artists and scientists-

these groups will work applying an interdisciplinary (scientific and artistic) method to create a work of art elaborating on a particular theme (see below)

the created works of art can represent innovative ways to explore scientific and philosophical  problematic topics through contemporary art.

This collaboration project is intended to search the possibilities of  interdisciplinarity:



ECKE WORK-GROUPS
 
QUALIA - VISUAL PERCEPTION 
 
Jan-Niklas Antons  Psychologist / Neuroscientist
 
Marion Andrieu/ Artist
 
Levan Manjavidze/ Visual artist
 
 
CONSCIOUSNESS- HARD PROBLEM I 

Tomas Goucha- Neuroscientist

 
Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano, Artist/Journalist
 
Katri Aksola - Artist Video/installation
 
 
CONSCIOUSNESS- HARD PROBLEM II

Tomas Goucha, Neuroscientist

 
Athina - Artist/ Painter
 
Ambra Pittoni, Artist/ Performance
 
HALLUCINATION
 
Adeleh Hildebrand, Doctor in Psychiatry
 
Julie Mewes, Cultural and Medical Anthropology
 
Ania Pabis , Art / Photography
 

                                            MEMORY AND TIME                               
 

Nuno Vicente. Artist
 
Julien Avril, Musician Sound
 
Hannah Bohle, Psycholinguist, neuroscientist

 
Please feel free to suggest collaboration  - it is a participative experience-





Ecke Gallery’ was born to promote research and collaboration between art and neuroscience. Neuroscientists, linguists, psychologists and artists come together at monthly meetings, sit in front of a ginger-orange tea and share knowledge and inspiration. Ecke gallery hosts international artists to continue to create connections between artists, curators and a soul.
 
. The first exhibition of Ecke Gallery artist group – ART@HBM 2011 was held in Quebec in July 2011 during “Neurocartographies” – Neuroscience congress. 

According to Stephen Kosslyn and Oliver Sachs theories in mental visualization - A. Damasio, C. Koch and Baars ‘s neuroscience research results in consciousness and perception- and also Seki and Ramachandran studies in neuroaestetic - and considering C.G. Jung’s comparative research in historical consciousness representation, in order to propose correlated neural base activity for the emergence of spontaneous symbolic images language - Ecke Gallery propose a comparative research study to give a multidisciplinary approach to better interpretation about how brain produces mental images related to unconscious activity. Especially during dreams, hallucinations and creative processes. 

  More infos and follow the meetings
giovannicasu@hotmail.fr 

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