Maps and Journeys 9- Looking further into my idea/Grouping up

For the project, I was approached by Julia, who was interested in my idea because of the scientific side of the project, and how we can explore that in a visually interesting way. I was also approached by Lauren, who's idea to do with Anxiety could fit in with my idea of the brain and memory. In addition to Julia and Lauren, Thomas approached me and offered his technical skills to the project, so that we could get a visually pleasing piece.

The rough outline of our idea is this:

. A visual piece looking at the brain and what part triggers different things i.e. emotions, freedom, passion etc which will be displayed through an interesting use of visual elements, possibly projected onto a screen/ 2 screens.

. The idea is to have a physical model of the brain, which will have microphone sensors (In development by Thomas) so that when you touch a part of the brain or talk into it, it will play a certain clip, related to that particular part of the brain.

Research

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html

When looking into the human brain, I came across an interesting website that put the parts of the brain into different categories: 

'.Frontal Lobe- associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving

Parietal Lobe- associated with movement, orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli

Occipital Lobe- associated with visual processing

Temporal Lobe- associated with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory, and speech'

I found this interesting as these definitions allow for an interesting array of visual elements and looking at this definition will help me think more about what I want to be shown on the screen. 

http://thediagonal.com/tag/brain/

I find looking at creative, artistic pieces of the brain inspiring. I liked this piece as it talks about how we have one side of the brain that's scientific and logistical, which is the technical side of our piece, and one side is the passionate, creative, free side which can be connected to the artistic, visual side of our project.

As a group, we looked at a visual piece called ''Biomimesis: Hyphae' by a Polish artist called Szymon Kaliski. This piece was visual interesting and this could be something to look into when we do our piece. 

As a group, Thomas showed us an interesting program called 'Quartz Composer' that allowed the user to manipulate a camera or a space and change what you see on the screen, for example he changed the screen so that there were multiple versions of ourselves. The program itself Thomas seems to have a good grasp on, so we may be using the program in the future for our project.