Friends of Neuroculture

This is a list of artists and scholars whose work lies at the intersection between the arts and neuroscience. If you would like to be part of the list, please send us by e-mail detailed information about your work as well as your most updated contact info.

Susan Aldworth, visual artist

Artist dealing with issues of personal identity raised by contemporary neurological science and with the nature of consciousness

www.susanaldworth.com saldworth.t21@btinternet.com

Noga Arikha, historian of ideas

History of ideas, especially those regarding the mind-body relation, history of science, medicine, psychology and neurosciences, early modern theories of passions, Indian philosophy and medicine

www.nogaarikha.com www.passionsandtempers.com info@nogaarikha.com

Daivd Bowen

Assistant Professor, Art and Design, University of Minnesota Duluh

www.dwbowen.com

Steve Budington, visual artist

Drawing on sources ranging from early anatomical studies to current developments in politics, environmental studies, and technologies of outdoor gear and apparel, Steve Budington’s paintings present hyperbolical but familiar situations that highlight the dangers (and humors) of specialization.

stevenbudington@gmail.com

Mara Haseltine, visual artist

Mara's work portrays the functioning of life's minutia on a grand scale, depicting what lies outside of our immediate perception. The process by which she creates her work is an ode to human progress, often combining ancient practices of fabrication with new digital technologies.

www.calamara.com

mara@calamara.com

Joseph Le Doux, neuroscientist

neuronal basis of emotions, especially fear anxiety; a member of The Amygdaloids, a band of scientists that plays original songs about mind and brain and mental disorders, the lyrics of which are often inspired by his research

www.cns.nyu.edu www.myspace.com/amygdaloids ledoux@cns.nyu.edu

Nicolas Langlitz, cultural anthropologist, historian of science

He explores the neurosciences, psychopharmacology, and consciousness cultures informed by brain research. He is currently working on a book on the revival of hallucinogen research while developing a new project on the emergence of consciousness studies and neurophilosophy.

www.nicolaslanglitz.de nlanglitz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Daniel Margulies, neuroscientist and artist

fMRI studies of behaviour and perception. His artistic creations deal with the epistemic assumptions of cognitive neuroscience by searching for novel presentations of traditional experimental paradigms

daniel.margulies@gmail.com

Amanda Pustilnik, neuroscience law

Climenko Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where her research interests include neuroscience and criminal law and uses of imaging technologies in other legal areas

apustilnik@law.harvard.edu

Devorah Sperber, visual artist

New York-based artist whose sculptures, composed of thousands of ordinary objects, negotiate a terrain between low and high tech. Her labor-intensive works explore repetition and the effects of digital technology on perception, scale, and subjective reality

www.devorahsperber.com devorahsperber@earthlink.net

Barbara Stafford

Stafford explores the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her current research charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human and animal sensorium, shaping our fundamental assumptions about perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~bms6. bms6@uchicago.com

Echo Objects

Dustin Wenzel, visual artist

From cave paintings to cartoons, advertising, and neuroscience, Wenzel's work focuses on the cultural forces that mediate our relationships with other species, framing our ideas of self, and ultimately informing our sense of place and purpose as a species on the planet.

dustin_wenzel@hotmail.com

Richard Wingate, neuroscientist

His interests range from mechanisms of neuron movement in the assembly of functional circuits to the evolution of developmental processes in sharks, fish and reptiles. Richard has also collaborated with the artist Andrew Carnie in developing art installations and with the historian Marius Kwint in analysing the historical influences of visual culture on representation in neuroscience

www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/biomedical/mrc richard.wingate@kcl.ac.uk

Article from Nature Reviews Neuroscience

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Happening now...

more...