Combining accessibility with deeper reflection, this book explains how shifts at the molecular and cellular level affect sensory and motor behavior, and shows how media art can be used to demystify the complexity of the central and peripheral nervous system.

Neuromedia is an innovative examination of shared territories in neurobiological anatomy, physiology and media art. It reveals how scientists investigate perception and behaviour at the molecular, cellular and systems level. It demonstrates how interpretative forms of media art can help to demystify these complexities for diverse audiences. Under the reflective headings of inspiration, construction, challenges and reactions, it offers deep insights into the processes of art and science production. Assisted by essays from a museum director and an art historian, Neuromedia provides the background for readers about an exhibition of the same name at KULTURAMA in Zurich (2012), and suggests an alternative approach to scientific communication.

Authors: Robert Atkins, Oliver Biehlmaier, Mitchel Paul Levesque, Stephan Neuhauss, Rolf Pfeifer, Claudia Rütsche, Jill Scott and Esther Stoeckli

For a public who want to understand the actualities of scientific research and reflect on the importance of this research in the public realm Deeper scientific supplement to the exhibition "Neuromedia" which will be held at the Kulturama in Zurich in August 2012 Segmented narratives and discoveries from seminal neuroscience research

Autorentext
Jill Scott was born in 1952, in Melbourne, Australia and has been working and living in Switzerland since 2003. Currently she is Professor for Research in the Institute Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration with the Ministry for Culture, Switzerland) which places artists from all disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK-a program with 16 international research candidates. Her recent publications include: Artists-in-labs Processes of Inquiry: 2006 Springer/Vienna/New York, and Coded Characters Hatje Cantz 2002, Ed. Marille Hahne. Her education includes: PhD, University of Wales (UK) MA USF, San Francisco, as well as a Degree in Education (Uni Melbourne) and a Degree in Art and Design (Victoria College of the Arts). Since 1975, she has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. Her most recent works involve the construction of interactive media and electronic sculptures based on studies she has conducted in neuroscience- particularly the somatic sensory system artificial skin (e-skin) 2003-2007 and on neuro-rentinal behaviour in relation to human eye disease (The Electric Retina-2008) and on dermatome and skin behaviour in relation to the "skin" of the landscape and UV radiation (Dermaland- 2009).

Inhalt
-Foreword: Scott, Stoekli. -Introduction: Science Communication in the Museum (Prof. Dr. Claudia Ruetsche). - Chapter 2: Your vertebrate visual system: function and behaviour, Prof. Dr. Stephan Neuhauss, Dr. Oliver Biehlmaier: The Electric Retina, 2010 an artistic interpretation of visual system research, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott. -Chapter 3: The formation of neural circuits: functional units in the nervous system, Prof. Dr. Esther Stoekli: Somabook 2010-11 An artistic interpretation of neural tube development, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott. -Chapter 4: Building from the bottom up to understand Sensory Networks: A conversation between Rolf Preiffer and Jill Scott, Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeiffer: E-skin 2001-2006 somatic perception and visual impairment, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott. -Chapter 5: Understanding Skin in the public realm: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Dummer, Mitch Levesque: Dermaland 2009 Drawing analogies between our skin and the skin of the Earth, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott.