Week 7 | Neuroscience+ Art | Livier Monarrez

Through the neuro method of electroencephalography (EEG) technology, we have produced new artistic works that have inspired us to see how the principles of neuroscience and art are intertwined (Gardner). Through the development of the Octopus Mandala, an “event commissioned for Santa Monica’s Glow Festival in 2013,” there were workers who wore these octopus crowns lit with LED lights (Albu). The neural activity in the brain of humans is similar to an octopus, and these artistic works from the LED-lit octopus crowns can portray the interconnection between human and octopus mind relations. 


Vesna, Victoria. "OCTOPUS BRAINSTORMING: EMPATHY | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab". Artsci.Ucla.Edu, 2016, https://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1271. 


In addition, our understanding of neuroscience helps us understand how our brains can capture artistic works in 3-dimensional. The cortical center's neural circuit activity reads our 3D world into 2-dimensional (Jay). Artists act as vision scientists as they use their scientific knowledge of visual stimuli to enhance their paintings and drawings to make their art productions stand out by creating optical illusions. The psychophysics of visual neuroscience helps artists create better artworks that create illusions. For example, the image below makes the viewer perceive the lines as moving, but they are not in reality, creating an optical illusion (Jay). 



Delbert, Caroline. "These 10 Trippy Optical Illusions Will Trick Your Eyes And Make You Question Reality". Popular Mechanics, 2021, https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/g34253663/10-best-optical-illusions/. 


Moreover, music content has also been inspired by the neuroscience of the brain's regional functioning, such as the amygdala, which functions in response to emotion and fear (Wright). Music videos have provided content explaining the purpose of the amygdala through the music genre of rock, such as the video is shown below. The footage offers music lyrics that enhance the understanding and significant purpose of the amygdala of its role in our survival. 



Hutton, Noah. "Fearing - The Amygdaloids." Youtube.Com, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMI3hbgRj6o&t=85s. 




Albu, Cristina. "Cristina Albu - CMA Journal - Simon Fraser University." Sfu.Ca, 2016, https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-ten--enchantment--disenchantment--reenchantment/cristina-albu.html?fbclid=IwAR1twyrqbeKqNrJSUXSihLVGvX_D9ARndxDv3USnw2pTENE_iXHJtIo8v54. 


Gardner, Howard. Art, Mind, And Brain. 1982.


Jay, Daniel. "NEUROSCIENCE + ART With Daniel Jay." Bruinlearn, 2022, https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/129896/pages/unit-7-view?module_item_id=4852536. 


Varela, Francisco J., et al. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. United States, MIT Press, 1992.

Wright, Anthony. "Limbic System: Amygdala (Section 4, Chapter 6) Neuroscience Online: An Electronic Textbook For The Neurosciences | Department Of Neurobiology And Anatomy - The University Of Texas Medical School At Houston". Nba.Uth.Tmc.Edu, 2020, https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s4/chapter06.html.






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