As an interdisciplinary science studying nervous system, neuroscience is a new emerging area that started to develop just a few decades ago. Neuroscience certainly has a close relationship with our everyday life. Looking back at what we have studied during the first week, I can see how neuroscience is related to the idea of "two culture." With neurotechnology, humans are even able to control and manipulate our brain with drugs and meditation. As Christopher deCharm explains in his 2008 TED Talk "A Look Inside the Brain in Real Time", there are currently three ways to control people's mind, which are psychotherapy, pills, and neurosurgery.
Christopher deCharm
As Giovanni Frazetto and Suzanne Anker put forward, we are now witnessing the rise of neuroculture "in which neuroscience knowledge partakes in our daily lives, social practices and intellectual discourses"(Frazetto&Anker, 815). Interested in portraying the structure of the human brain, artists started to utilize the brain imaging technologies to generate the image of brain in an artistic way. Anker made the piece“fMRI Butterly” in 2008, which linked MRI brain scans with the form of butterflies. Similarly, "Nano Flower Bouquet" is the art piece produced by Ghim Wei Ho and Mark Welland. Showing the complex mixture of amorphous and crystalline material in three dimensions, the piece applied nanotechnology to create an unique kind of artwork.
fMRI Butterly
Nano Flower Bouquet
As a new field of science, neuroscience gives artists new technologies to develop their artwork. Looking into the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness, humans will never stop to explore the interaction between art and neuroscience. Human brain, as the most complicated control center of people, will continued to be studies by scientists. At the same time, artists are going to exhibit the scientific results in an artistic and understandable way to educate the public.
Sources
"A Look inside the Brain in Real Time." Christopher DeCharms:. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_scans_the_brain_in_real_time?language=en>
Frassetto, Giovanni & Anker, Suzanne. “Perspectives.” Science and Society. 10: 815-821. 2009 November. Web. 13 May 2015. <http://www.suzanneanker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009-Anker-Suzanne-Giovanni-Frazzetto-Neuroculture-Nature-Reviews.pdf>
"Nanotechnology Now." Nanotechnology Art Gallery. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.nanotech-now.com/Art_Gallery/ghim-wei-ho.htm>
"Would You Like a Bouquet of Nanoflowers?" Would You Like a Bouquet of Nanoflowers? Web. 18 May 2015. <http://radio-weblogs.com/0105910/2004/06/22.html>
Pontin, Jason. "Mind Over Matter, With a Machine’s Help." The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 Aug. 2007. Web. 15 May 2015. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/business/yourmoney/26stream.html?_r=2&>
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