#braincircuits

Over the past Few months i’ve learnt alot within this project as in how i work and what i need to do in future projects to better myself. From the start of this project i was focused on exploring collabrative projects within Art and Science. They are Two topics ive always been intrested in and I wanted to see how could benifit from combing the two together. I have really enjoyed this project as we’ve been able to take it in any direction we wanted and been able to get alot of feed back from peers within the project. By knowing we had a show at the end of the project it pushed me to make my piece so it had a professional  finish and didnt look ‘cheap’ or just thrown together. The chewing gum is my favour part of the project and in a way i wish i had just stuck with the theme of chewing gum and left the lightbulb idea. Chewing Gum is a throw away material that nobody really cares about yet its a brilliant modeling tool and creates great texture. I wanted to use chewing gum as it allows you to add ink into it to get colour and patterns within it. I also liked the idea of the chewing gum being connected to the body as we have to chew , chewing gum in order to get its texture which means our brain is sending messages around our body to chew it. As much as i love Art and Science i think in the future i need to not be so focused on just that as im limiting myself as to what materials im using and what processes im doing. When reflecting on this project i havent been as open to things as i have been in past proejcts which isnt a road i want to go down.I really like the light element of my work as i think it gives it a different feel. It allows the audience to be interative with my work and enables people to get invovled instead of just looking over it.  Overall i was please with my display within the Gallery as i belive it looks professional and draws people in becasue of the texture and strage material used. Within future projects im going to push my self more into trying new methods and ideas before being set on a theme or certain area as i feel this is where im lacking within this project. When reflecting back on the project i feel i was to quick with my idea. I feel i had set in stone my idea too early before i had explored the potential of the project. 

The whole idea behind my work to was explore the idea behind lightbulbs being assosited with the brain. I was eager to explore the different textures  within brains and how other artists view the brain or body within art. Everyone assumes all brains are the same when in actual fact there all  different just the same as our fingerprint or skin type. I wanted to use the chewing gum as its a throw away material thats seen as a non art material. I believe the chewing gum as gone through a process with my brain as its sending signals in order to procduce the chewed chewing gum. 

What stood out most to me after scanning the negative was the "Walli-esque" nature of the microscope. It's quite cute. The microscope shown here is used for ontogenetic. That is, neuroscientists use laser light to turn on and off subset of brain networks. #mitbetterworld #sarinana #MITBrains #neuroscience #research #braincircuits #neuralnetworks #pixar @pixar Thank you to the funding provided by the Council for the @artsatmit and the continued support of @new55film and @mobilephotoawards @mitscience @societyforneuroscience #optogenetics