Part exhibition, part forum and part science-art workshop, Amnesia Lab is a new kind of gallery event.

Amnesia Lab is an ongoing collaborative research project involving artists, writers and neurosychologists from the UK and Australia. For Signs of Life, the Amnesia Lab looks into the human brain and the processes of memory. 

Building on this collaborative research project, the team, including artist Shona Ilingworth (Kent University), memory specialist Professor Martin A. Conway (City University, London), neuropsychologist Catherine Loveday (Westminster University) and NIEA researchers Jill Bennett and Volker Kuchelmeister, will stage a series of talks in specially designed environments, utilising a range of media and technologies such as EEG sonification, drawing, and immersive interaction.

Exhibits include:

• Gazzaley Lab/Neuroscape Lab, UCSF Glass Brain, an anatomically realistic 3D visualisation depicting activity from EEG (electroencephalographic) signals.

• Shona Illingworth, Sonification of EEG of amnesic memory

• Hiraki Sawa, Did I? (2011), single chanel HD video with stereo:audio. 9:13 mins.

• Volker Kuchelmeister, Jill Bennett, Dennis Del Favero and students, Amnesia Atlas (prototype), a 3D immersive SenseCam interface for exploring memory.

• Martin Conway, Memory Drawings

More information on associated workshops, lectures and events can be found here.