Mind Mine
Website including several flash animations
"Brains are more interesting than you think."
An interactive art installation representing complex neurological principles is open to the public in London from 10 to 18 June 2006. Dubbed 'Mind Mine', the two-storey installation replicates brain functioning, as visitors physically become thoughts travelling through neural canals. Mind Mine is the culmination of a three-month collaboration project working with 90 children, exploring ways of communicating brain-cell functioning and neurological concepts, and how these affect our decision making, emotional stability and automatic processing of huge amounts of information. Funded through a Pulse award from the Wellcome Trust, Mind Mine has been developed and created by artists Harriet Murray and Neil Taylor in collaboration with scientist Elaine Beattie, Lecturer in Biopsychology at Goldsmiths College. This project was to involve children to understand and articulate by themselves how and why does the brain function giving alternative solutions and learning concrete scientific facts by using their own imagination. I have been involved in an extention project to bring the Mine Mind project live on the Web: exploring creative navigational systems, adding wiki widgets and links to scientific information, together with video footage and images of the actual Mind Mine installation. This project aims to create a didatic portal were everyone of all ages can enjoy learning about the brain, how it functions etc, in an experimental fun and unconventional manner. Click here to view the Mind Mine web portal.
