Archive | August 16, 2009
Perseus with the Head of Medusa Pencast at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I experimented with “Pencasts” using the Livescribe Pulse Smart Pen that I purchased yesterday, partially so I could sketch and annotate my thoughts. The results are mixed, as the Smart Pen does what it was designed to do, well, but wasn’t really created to be an “Art Pen”.
VentureBeat has a review of the SmartPen and [...]
Neuroesthetics & Artists as Brain Scientists
This year I finally relented and bought myself an iPod. It’s easily the best gadget I have ever bought and I really don’t know how I lived without one for 33 years! I love it because I can take my whole music collection anywhere, it shuts off the outside world while working in the studio, and when I’m at the PC I am always listening to podcasts and lectures.
The best podcasts haven’t necessarily been art podcasts either, they have been podcasts on the mind, nature, spirituality, and business. One podcast which I always look forward to listening to is All in the Mind by Natasha Mitchell.
In her latest episode (which can be downloaded Here, even if you hate music and don’t own an iPod yet) she talks about neuroesthetics and an exhibition at London’s Hayward gallery called Walking in My Mind.
Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroesthetics and says that scientists have a lot to learn from art, but artists have a lot less to learn from neuroscientists. And he says that we (artists) are mostly all neurologists in some sense.
It’s an interesting listen..