Change My Mind

The mind—remixed, remastered, reimagined

Dheeraj Kumar

Francesca Snelling

Hyash Tanmoy

Pratishtha Rawat

Srishti Singh, Akshay Sawhney

Neurotechnologies are rapidly being adopted to treat medical conditions; however, commercial uses of brain implants are already on the horizon. While neural interfaces can potentially change the way people think, behave, and interact with the world, they also threaten the agency of human thought by blurring the boundaries between the mind and technology. To explore the implications of brain implant technologies, Andrew Carnie invited artists, scientists, and members of the public to creatively intervene in the artwork created by him. By fostering a collaborative space for discussion on brain implants, Carnie opens a window into our current engagement with neurotechnology.

Medium: Participatory web experience

Year: 2022

Process

Initial explorations for the design of the framework of the object.

Digital exploration of layout and compositions for the object.

Exploration of the concept of wiring within the brain.

Final object to be sent to the collaborators.

Explorations with watercolours on the initial object by artist Andrew Carnie.

Detailed notes from artist Andrew Carnie on his process.

Team

Andrew Carnie

Art-Scientist

Andrew Carnie is a studio-based artist working from Winchester in the United Kingdom. His practice often involves a meaningful exchange with scientists. Themes and ideas are often based around neurology, the brain, and how we get a sense of our-selves through ideas and images generated by contemporary science.
The work is often time-based in nature, involving light and slide dissolve systems or video projection onto complex screens. In darkened spaces layered images appear and disappear on suspended voiles, the developing display absorbing the viewer into an expanded sense of space and time through slowly unfolding narratives that evolve around them.