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Andrew Carne is an artist and lecturer whose current work explores various scientific topics and involves 'picturing' the body through science. The topics of his work include memory, the brain, developmental neuroscience, genetic disorders, temporal lobe epilepsy and the human body after death. He works with a mixture of new and old media. Recent creative work involves developing complex slide installations or video projection works using multi layered screens in pieces that reflect an interest in the brain as an ever-changing vital organ and the 'self' as in part a construct informed by new contemporary scientific imaging. Work previously based around collaborating with developmental neurologists to explore concepts of the growing nervous system has moved on to encompass an interest in sequential photography and its link to scientific work. He has taught at the Winchester School of Art, part of Southampton University England since 1991. His transforming projection pieces have been exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, and he is represented in collections in England, Germany, and the United States.
Recent projects include: 'Slices and Snapshots', 2004, show at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University. Based on the sequential photography of Eadweard Muybridge and chronophotography in contemporary neuro-science three new works were shown 'Eye: Through the Mirror Darkly', 'Slice' and 'Snapshots'. Funded by a fellowship from the Stanley Picker Foundation. 'Things Happen', 2005, a time-based piece on genetic diseases made for the Mendel Museum, Abbey Of St Thomas, Brno, Czech Republic, for the show 'Genes And Genius'. More recently, 2008-2009 he has worked with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy sufferers and clinicians making a piece called Seized: Out of this World. This work has been shown to great effect and the Epilepsy society of Great Britain now want to use the work to heighten the publics awareness of the condition through knowledge transfer.
Several projects have been funded by the Arts Council England, two others by the Wellcome Trust, London, one by the Gulbenkian Foundation and one by the Arts and Humanities Research Council England.
Recent notable exhibitions include work being shown in the Science Museum London, the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, Design Museum Zurich and the Exit Art in New York. Significant recent publications on art and science collaborations have incorporated sections on his work including Sian Ede’s ‘Art and Science’, ‘Visual Culture and Bioscience’ edited by Suzanne Anker and 'Invisible Vision: Could Science learn from the Arts?’ by Sabine E. Wildevuur.
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