Inside & Outside: From Perception to Immunity

Herve-Pierre Lambert presented his paper Neuroesthetics, Neurological Disorders and Creativity that discusses alterations in artistic production as a result of neurological disorder. A few cases have received intensive study, such as the designer and painter Carolus Horn (1921-1992) who had an unusual talent for drawing. Horn was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease at an age of 60 and during stages of the disease his paintings shifted in their use of colour, shapes, perspective, anatomical structure and spatiality. Collaborations between artists suffering from such diseases and neurologists can help contribute to understanding this altered productivity.

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The notion of daydreaming captures a luminal space between consciousnesses and unconsciousness. Dew Harrison and Barbra Rauch’s thinking around way of using new technology to find spaces of stillness in the hurricane of modern life, explores daydreams by producing compositions which mixes photo and small video loops from sporting events to induce this state.

Gordana Novakovic poses the question of the cognitive effect produced by the overload of modern metropolis (escalated by digital technology). Her collaborative work 'fugue' is based on the functioning of the human immune system by using simulation algorithms. A presentation of her work was also presented at Goldsmiths' Creative Evolution conference where she curiously noted on collaborative aspect of the work “we propose to exploit artists’ knowledge of the relation between interactivity and perception, and harness it in the communication of scientific complexity.”