Fondazione Prada opens "Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea"
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, November 21, 2024


Fondazione Prada opens "Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea"
Kanzen Mikumo, Genshun Koishi, Ranshū Yoshimura, Seyakuin Kainantaizōzu, Japan, 1798. Manuscript with illustrations, ink and color on paper. RareBooks, Main Library, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Call no. 7-05/セ/1. Photograph courtesy of the Main Library, Kyoto University.



VENICE.- “Human Brains” is the result of an intensive investigative process undertaken since 2018 by Fondazione Prada in the field of neuroscience, driven by a deep interest to understand the human brain, the complexity of its functions, and its centrality to human history.

The “Human Brains” initiative surveys different fields: from neurobiology to philosophy, from psychology to neurochemistry, from linguistics to artificial intelligence, and robotics. As stated by Miuccia Prada, President of Fondazione Prada, “We are increasingly interested in relevant subjects that impact the lives of everyone, even when those topics are difficult to understand. For a cultural institution whose identity is rooted in the field of visual arts, dealing with science is an intellectual and political challenge: how do we make an exhibition about ideas and knowledge?

The exhibition “Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea” is curated by Udo Kittelmann in collaboration with Taryn Simon. Covering three floors of the building, it is the result of a long and in-depth research process carried out with Fondazione Prada and the scientific board of the project.

On the ground floor, a series of projections introduces the audience to the anatomy, physiology, and imaging of the brain, as well as illustrations of how it develops and functions.

On the first and second floors, more than 110 items encode centuries of attempts to understand the human brain. Including historical objects, drawings, paintings, prints, and books, the items mark some of the most significant stages of a millennia-long journey of discovery while also illuminating otherwise forgotten chapters of the Mesopotamian and ancient Egyptian ages, the Italian Renaissance, the Japanese Edo period, as well as the last thirty years’ imaging techniques.

Thirty-two international fiction authors have written literary texts in response to the objects, calling forth their latent social, political or personal histories into new forms, expanding the boundaries of our investigative scope. The artifacts’ stories were written to be performed by renowned audio book narrator George Guidall in short videos directed by Taryn Simon and produced by Fondazione Prada for the “Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea” project. One voice is projected into multiple stories, languages, geographies, bodies, and realities.

At the center of the second floor, thirty-six neuroscientists, psychologists, neurolinguists, and philosophers from five continents are broadcast in an assembly of thirty-two screens. They investigate neuroscientific experiments, and their philosophical and ethical dimensions. Like the brain, The Conversation Machine—videos, interviews and orchestration by Taryn Simon, produced by Fondazione Prada for the exhibition—is a self-organizing system. It responds to itself, continually constructing and assimilating its own order and disorder.

Taken all together, the exhibition navigates a history of neuroscientific knowledge-making marked by rigor, breakthrough, and discovery as well as error and uncertainty. It traces the outlines of consciousness, the gaps in scientific research, and what is known and unknown in our understanding of the human brain.










Today's News

April 24, 2022

Sonia Boyce wins top prize at Venice Biennale

Simone Leigh wins Golden Lion

Historic Yves Klein announced as highlight of Phillips' 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

Centre Pompidou opens "Shirley Jaffe: An American Woman in Paris"

A new body of works by Kehinde Wiley unveiled at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini

The Coal Miner's Daughter and a canary yellow dress

Family's private collection from historic Rawdon Hall comes to auction for first time

Stellar acquisition to the Moderna Museet collection

James Siena now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery

10 works from 2022 Dallas Art Fair to join Dallas Museum of Art's permanent collection

'Great Comet' producer hasn't paid royalties, composer says

Alexandra Pirici presents Encyclopedia of Relations at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

The Pavilion of Singapore officially opens Shubigi Rao's Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book

She taught New York to sing

Rony Plesl presents a site-specific installation at La Biennale di Venezia

Holabird Western Americana Collections is holding a Western Americana Auction

Hionas Gallery exhibits eight new "residue paintings" by Stephen Maine

Saturn V launch vehicle digital computer memory module sold for $71,335 at auction

Renée Stout work acquired by The Zimmerli Art Museum

Fondazione Prada opens "Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea"

Pavilion of Denmark unveils Uffe Isolotto's haunting transhuman world, We Walked the Earth

National Air and Space Museum receives leadership gift from Iridium for new "One World Connected" exhibition

Museo di Palazzo Grimani opens Mary Weatherford's "The Flaying of Marsyas"

Tried to improve your writing skills but not working? Follow these tips and make it happen!

How to rank youtube videos in 2022: Our SEO Video guide

Tips for a Beautiful and Cost-Effective Home Renovation

5 Tips to Increase the Life of Your Leather Goods




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful