PAIN/PLEASURE
Rapid prototyped sls on a mirrored plinth

Copyright Annie Cattrell 2009

Pain and pleasure in the brain.
Collaboration with artist Annie Cattrell, 2009.

Deep brain stimulation in the PAG/PVG can radically change the subjective experience of pain, as described in this scientific article: [pdf]

THE FIVE SENSES
Rapid prototyped resin in acrylic, 60 x 60 x 60 cm

"Cattrell is seeking to grasp the “physicality of consciousness” by exploring the “delicate dialogue between the exterior world and our individual blueprint”. She models this dialogue by casting in resin the morphological patterns of brain activity that correspond to the stimulation of each of the five senses. Neural activity is transformed into glistening apparitions that float in the cranial cavity like a kind of mental plasma. The refractive and reflective crystalline cubes, within which the skull is by implication inscribed, optically slice the golden configurations into shifting interplays of plans and elevations as the spectator moves past them.

... In imaging the brain by casting and modelling, Cattrell stands in a long line going back to Leonardo da Vinci, who cast the ventricles of an ox brain, believing that the fluid in the ventricles was the medium within which the mental faculties operated. "
(Professor Martin Kemp, Nature 2003, 424: p.18)

The anatomy of thought.
Collaboration with artist Annie Cattrell, Leverhulme Artist in residence at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 2003.

This 3D movie / animation shows the spatial segregation of the senses in the human brain: [senses 3.2Mb].

Gerningssted. Udstilling i Politigården. Billedhuggerskolen Charlottenborg & Arkitektskolen Kongens Nytorv. 1996

DOBBELTVIOLIN
Træ, (rubinrød og sort) metal og glas, 210 x 210 x 120 cm

Morten Kringelbach
Katarina Lundeberg
Susanne Milne
Gitte Sommer

Scene of the crime. Exhibition at "Politigården" (National headquarters of the police) in connection with Copenhagen Cultural Capital'96. Project with participants from the School of Sculpture and the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Arts.

Udsat for filtreringens tyngde
Kaster rummet skygger af fravær
Over erindringens labyrint,
Hvor den tabte tid udskriger
Den blodrøde hests smerte

Maskine og maske,
Blikkets metamorfoser

En forførelse under sjælens spejl
Udsat for dobbeltviolinens skingre dissonans.