Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University: Appreciating art may be something that comes from your heart, but there's another vital part of our bodies that relates to art. You'll find the connection at Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery this month when the gallery features "Neurons and Other Memories ... Work In and Around the Brain" from Friday, Oct. 10, through Sunday, Oct. 26.
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I am alway interested and intrigued by the things showcased in the Miller Gallery. Last year as a prospective I stopped by the gallery and saw the most interesting exhibit about how we see ourselves and how we see others. This new exhibit about Neurons and Other Memories sounds so interesting and I am excited to see it. The brain is the most contributive factors in art and it is interesting to see how these artists are showing appreciation to it through these painting and sculptures. I will definitely have to check out the Miller Gallery this coming week.
The intersection of art and science is a fascinating subject, and one I wish we embarked upon more frequently in the theatre. I'm not sure if it's part of the Miller Galleries mission at large, but they seem to have a lot of exhibits that feature science or technology as a gateway or facilitator to fine art. This would make sense, CMU being the science and technology center that it is. I've seen only two other exhibits at the gallery, and they both centered around science or technology. One was a collection of solar powered CNC gizmos that used the sun and computer numeric control to create objects or designs. On gizmo cut sunglasses out of card stock using the desert sun and a magnifying glass. Only one word for that: rad. Not sure it's art, but it's definitely rad. The other exhibit was last year and featured photographs of different clinical settings medical installations around the world: basically portraits of the environments where medicine, sickness and death hold reign. That exhibit was especially well done, I thought, as it challenged the viewer in a lot of ways and altered my perspective of the world of medicine. Ashley and I had already planned on visiting the gallery for this exhibit, and I hope to have time to get to all of them this year. It is right next door after all.
Miller Gallery always has interesting and fascinating exhibitions. And we (me) never made it to any of them. I'm fascinated by how they convert science into these beautiful artwork that looks..... not so science to me. I think that's one of the artists talent that I honored and adored, they have these gifts to see something in a way that no ordinary people can see, and re create and present it into these super creative ways that sometimes you can't even tell what it originally was.
I love whenever people make art inspired by science. The arts and the sciences are not as far apart as most people seem to believe. I hope this exhibit has managed to capture the wonder and strangeness and mystery of the brain. I also wonder if anyone has done any works relating the macro and micro view of the universe, using the fact that the nervous system and the universe look the same when you look at them at the same size. Really, life is just fantastic and needs to be celebrated more often.
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