Arts
Neuroscience and the world of art are poles apart but not for Tedi Asher, a neuroscientist-in-residence at Massachusetts’ Peabody Essex Museum, where she employs a mix of techniques exploring how her field of research can rev up the art museum experience.
Dan Monroe, the director of the museum, attributes the need for this innovation to the changing cultural landscape, which has over the years shrunk the number of art museum visitors across the nation, notes Smithsonianmag.com.
The museums’ traditional methods and pedagogy need to adapt to stay relevant in changing times, and what could be a better approach than understanding the brain itself to create more meaningful, relevant and impactful art experiences.
This project is almost antithetical to the last confluence of neuroscience and the U.S. art world when in 2016, David Byrne’s “NEUROSOCIETY” project at Pace Gallery in Los Angeles, translated the works of 15 neuroscience labs into art pieces for general consumption, reports Hyper Allergic.
