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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:
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
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