Animation, Experimental Video, and Neuroscientific Brain Imaging
Word Brain
VIDEO
2010
3 min 48 sec, silent
A visual poem inspired by the artist’s conversations with Dr. 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 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.