In this final project, I decided to combine my own interest in neurology and the lessons and inspirations I collected from various readings and speakers throughout this semester. It is a digital painting resembling my interpretation of how our brain process information from outside stimuli. The two major concepts of this project are the brain’s unique method of encoding information in the form of memory and the idea of visual perceptions. The entire concept of human memory is a complicated subject that I don’t expect to fully understand and demonstrate in a single artwork, but I chose to specifically emphasize the complexity of our memory system that utilizes multiple areas of our brain to construct a complex understanding of a specific event or objects that includes the emotion we feel in relationship to the object as well as the sensory information. I visualized this concept into different “departments” working together to create a single picture. In this work, different departments are resembled by the different colored wires, which are attached and entangled on a node to create some sort of imagery to be stored. This visualization is also inspired by how different people may perceive the world differently, especially in terms of sight. The colors of the wire, as well as the color split image it created, represent the RGB color model commonly used in digital systems, which also originates from the wavelengths most sensitive to our photoreceptor cells.

The following is an animated version of this artwork, further emphasizing the progress of developing memory, constructed by several pieces of information from different parts of the brain.

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