Neuro Memento Mori: meditations on death

Abstract

In Neuro Memento Mori, digital animations and live action video are projection mapped onto a 3D print of the artist’s head and neck made from data from 3D scans of the head and MRI scans of the brain. The life-sized 3D printed sculptures are dissected to reveal the artist’s brain and ‘make real’ fMRI data gathered as the artist conducted experiments in the MRI scanner including viewing memento mori paintings and meditating on death. Computation is used to produce 3D neuroimages, 3D prints and computer animations that are projection-mapped back onto the 3D object. The artworks, made with neuroscientists, are contemporary memento mori made from data