Mind Mine, 2007
Website including several flash animations
An interactive art installation representing complex neurological principles was open to the public in London in 2006. Dubbed 'Mind Mine', the two-storey installation replicated brain functioning, as visitors physically became thoughts travelling through neural canals. Mind Mine was the culmination of a three-month collaboration project working with 90 children, exploring ways of communicating brain-cell functioning and neurological concepts, and how these affect our decision-making, emotional stability and automatic processing of huge amounts of information. Funded through a Pulse award from the Wellcome Trust, Mind Mine was developed by artists Harriet Murray and Neil Taylor in collaboration with scientist Elaine Beattie, Lecturer in Biopsychology at Goldsmiths College. This project aimed to involve children to understand and articulate by themselves how and why does the brain function giving alternative solutions and learning concrete scientific facts by using their own imagination. I was involved in an extension project to bring the Mine Mind project live on the Web: exploring creative navigational systems, adding wiki widgets and links to scientific information, together with video footage and images of the actual Mind Mine installation. This project aimed to create a didatic portal where people of all ages can enjoy learning about the brain, how it functions, etc, in an experimental, fun and unconventional manner. Click here to view the Mind Mine web portal.
