A bunch of curious researchers and anthropologists have come up with creative ways to investigate art and the conscious brain. Such curiosity meets creativity in a lively and arresting way in illuminated dissolved humanity cortex manifestations, a collaborative exhibition experiment co-led by Tricia MacKenzie, being held at the Inter Space gallery she runs in New York, NY. As part of this exhibition, painter Dean Cercone dons an EEG headset that records his neural activity, whilst he goes about his work. Mr. Cercones paintings are chaotic but yet contained, combining bold acrylic lines with splashes of spray paint, conveying dreamlike expressions of the subconscious and the archetypal. Some such as, Ode to its cortex and its Illuminated Manifestations, are overt nods to Ms. MacKenzies experiment, depicting a human head full of colorful abstract shapes suggesting motion. The other paintings on display are thematically divorced from the neuro-scientific aspect of the collaborative show, although this doesnt detract from the coherence of the exhibition as a concept. Tricia MacKenzie added two statements, What I learned from Dean is that he pains according to two epochs, He has a planning phase that lasts for about three seconds, where he uses the prefrontal cortex, and he actually does not have activity in the occipital lobes, which have more to do with vision. So hes more seeing with the cognitive part of his brain hes not seeing with the visual part of his brain.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:19:30 +0000
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