Blog 6 NeuroScience+Art
Through out the lectures this week,
I found the work Santiago Ramón y Cajal to be the epitome of
everything we have learned in this class. He is an incredible example of
someone making strides in Science – Art collaboration back in the early 1900’s
before there was even much of a field for his research. He is one of the
greatest examples of a left and right brain thinker of all time and the winner
of the Nobel Prize. He is the father of Nobel science and still refers to neuron
cells as “butterflies of the soul” and said “only artist are attracted to
science” proving that even an extremely artistic person can still be a scientific
genius. Some of his famous drawings of brain cells are pictured below.
Another portion of the lecture that really resonated with me
was when Professor Vesna discussed dreams. We have done so much research about
dreams but yet we still know very little making it an incredible territory
challenging the imaginations of both artist and scientist. After conducting
research of my own, I found the work of Michael Vincent Manalo. Michael’s artwork is based off of
images from his dreams and through digital manipulation he creates vivid artwork combining Neuroscience, computer science, and art. A few of his images
are shown bellow.
His artwork leaves viewers with many questions unanswered
embodying everything forgotten in the dream world. I found it to be incredibly
beautiful and symbolic of Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious and how
it manifests itself differently in every individual’s dreams.
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Hey Jennie, really enjoyed your post. I completely agree that Ramon Cajal represents everything that we have learned in class so far. It's amazing that most of his drawings and sketches of neurons are still being used in textbooks and classrooms today.
ReplyDeleteWhat fascinates me is that we continuously learn about these famous figures that constantly talk about how important the combination of art and science is, and we do not realize them until we are in this class. From Albert Einstein to Aristotle, many of the most famous scientists value how important art is in their fields of science.