Experimental Animation
Word Brain, 2010, 3 min 48 sec, silent, experimental animation. Directed & Animated by Eva Lee.
A visual poem inspired by the artist’s conversations with Dr. W. Einar Mencl, Director of Neuroimaging Research at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated institute for conducting research on spoken and written language. With support by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven and The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
This work presents neuroscientific terminology and brain images from the laboratory as pictorial wordplay. “@@@@@” was shown to subjects in an experiment on the cognition of real words vs. non-words. The floating shapes throughout are color-coded activated brain areas lifted from original lab sources.