A Sense of Place was ‘performed’ today at Bedern Hall, York as part of the Virtual Audio and Past Environments Conference. A Sense of Place [Revisited II] is a redevelopment of the original piece, designed for more general presentation. The emphasis is now on the audio aspects of the work, with images of the original […]
Our second visit to York Art Gallery involved looking at Vanitas paintings. These use symbols within the painting to represent learning and time – particuarly how little time we have. In the galleries we identified this in paintings by the use of skulls, egg timers, dead animals and fruit. This was a popular form in […]
Some interesting (and slightly scary) uses of MRI technology to find out what you are thinking. This new research poses some interesting ethical questions. Science fiction? We might not be as far off as you think…. The breakthrough by American scientists took MRI scanning equipment normally used in hospital diagnosis to observe patterns of brain […]
The York Festival runs from the 7th to the 16th March in and around York. The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is holding an open day, so if you fancy a return trip or want to send your family to have a look now would be the ideal time. Wednesday 12th MarchYNiC, The Biocentre, York Science […]
Follow this link for PC compatible software for playing with MRI datasets: MRIcro You can find example datasets on the internet. We’ll post some more links soon.
Today we visited York Art Gallery for the first of two sessions with Griselda. The theme for the day was ‘portraits’ – in particular ‘pose’ and ‘expression’. We looked at paintings in the actual portrait gallery and studied two in more detail – what could we see in the paintings? What could we detect about […]
This arts installation at the Science Museum in London is quite interesting. It grabs bits of internet conversations and displays four letter words on lots of small screens. A synthesiser also speaks the words creating a kind of singing. Listening Post
Today we discussed what ‘Ethics’ are or what the term actually means. It’s difficult to define exactly but the term covers many ideas about, for instance, right/wrong, public and personal values, the influence and role of society, religion, law. There are also many other things to discuss when talking about ethics – these ideas are […]
YOUnique opens this weekend at Impressions Gallery and runs until 2 March in their Studio. Students from Bradford Academy worked with Columbian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri looking at the links between appearance and identity and what makes us unique and created a new video work. Check it out at Impressions’ website
Here is a link to the presentation made by Sam on the MRI scanner:YNIC Presentation Right-click and select ‘Save Target As…’ The file is about 8MB in size.
