Fabric on the Brain
Not most the word’s succinctly named art collection the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art does, however. fill a unique gap in the art world. The online museum exhibits textile artwork inspired by neuroscience research, dissection, and neuro-economics Featuring fabric renderings of PCT and MR1 scans, or three-dimensional models of the brain itself- the works pinpoint the accidental beauty of scientific imagery- With crafts ranging from quilting to appli¬que, embroidery, beadwork, knitting, and crocheting, the artists use fabric, }yarn. metallic: threads, wire, Tippers, and beads- Ono quilt even features magnetic core memory (a precursor to modern computor chips).
Founded by Marjorie Taylor and Karen Norberg. and curated by Bill Harbaugh (Taylor’s husband), the museum is a bizarrely gorgeous collection of textile art. Taylor. a psychology professor and quilter, started out by quilting images from neuroscientists in her department. {Each square in Marjorie Taylor #2 shows the brain during a different activity,}
Norberg, a physician doing research in economics,anatomically correct brain- (If you didn’t know that the brain was just that. you’d want to wear it.) As the museum gained attention in the blogosphere, Harbaugh started receiving sub-missions {some of which, to put it politely, were anatomically correct but had nothing to do with brains}- He did decide to include artist Patricia Jauch’s shadowy explorations of single neuron rerordings, which are astonishingly stark and lovely.
The museum continues to grow in renown (it was featured in Science magazine), but remain an online entity for now- Norberg’s knitted brain ran be soon at tho Boston Museum of Science, and one of Taylor’s quilts is at the Lewis Center for Neurosci¬ence Imaging. The rest are on display at home. and in Harbaugh’s office- Still. “it’s been a lot of fun,” Harbaugh says. “You see where the hits are corning from, and they’re major neuroscience institutions”
—Arwen O’ReiU
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