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Head On
Art with the Brain in Mind A Wellcome Trust exhibition
Science Museum, London, 2002 Co-curated by Caterina Albano and Marina Wallace Artakt, and
Ken Arnold, Head of Exhibitions, Wellcome Trust
Artists and scientists: meetings of minds
From the viewpoint of contemporary art, visual representations in brain sciences
such as the psychology of perception, neurology and cognition, have acquired a
particular freshness and immediacy. This freshness is guaranteed by the freedom
of the images (as in other sciences) from the ready-packaged theories and practices
of the art world. A significant number of contemporary artists have chosen to
conduct their practice at least in part through procedures of investigation and
experimentation that refer to the world of science. More often than not they use
processes which echo those of scientists, albeit in a different cultural context,
within different parameters and with different ends in view. Concurrently, a number
of curators, conservators, and historians are developing their own practice through
the promotion of active relationships between artists and scientists. Those who
operate judiciously in this field believe that it is crucial that new juxtapositions
and parallels between the disciplines of art and science are created at a level
that avoids opportunistic or approximate solutions. Head On was born from this
conviction.
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