Self Reflected with Dr. Greg Dunn: Lecture/Exhibit Event

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Wednesday April 3, 2019:

2–2:45 p.m. Opening reception

Falk Library Upper Floor exhibit area

Experience the artwork of the Art on the Brain exhibit and interact with the artist, Dr. Greg Dunn. Light refreshments will be served.

 

3–4 p.m. Lecture: Self Reflected: Deeply Fusing Art and Science to Create the World's Most Complex Artistic Depiction of the Human Brain

Scaife Hall Lecture Room 1

Self Reflected in Violets courtesy of Greg Dunn
Self Reflected in Violets courtesy of Greg Dunn

Dr. Greg Dunn (artist and neuroscientist) and Dr. Brian Edwards (artist and applied physicist) created Self Reflected to reveal insight into the complexity of human consciousness by revolutionizing the way in which the average person thinks about the brain. Self Reflected bridges the visual and conceptual connection between the macroscopic brain and the microscopic behavior of neurons by fusing neuroscientific data, hand drawings, algorithmic manipulation, optical engineering, photolithography, and gilding to etch half a million neurons into large sheets of gold. The result, a technique called reflective microetching, uses animations created through reflected light to create an ultraprecise depiction of the enormous scope of beautiful and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we observe this work of art. Self Reflected was created to remind us all that the most marvelous machine in the known universe is at the core of our being and is the root of our shared humanity.

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