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  • Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920–2020

    Brainmedia by Lysen, Flora;

    One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920–2020

    Series: Thinking Media;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 21 March 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781501378720
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 216x138x18 mm
    • Weight 380 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 38 bw illus
    • 547

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    Long description:

    Will we ever be able to see the brain at work? Could it be possible to observe thinking and feeling as if watching a live broadcast from within the human head? Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies: from exhibitions of giant illuminated brain models and staged projections of brainwave recordings to live televised brain broadcasts, brains hooked up to computers and experiments with "brain-to-brain" synchronization.

    Drawing on archival material, Brainmedia outlines a new history of "live brains," arguing that practices of-and ideas about-mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. By combining accounts of scientists examining brains in laboratories with examples of public demonstrations and exhibitions of brain research, Brainmedia casts new light on popularization practices, placing them at the heart of scientific work.

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    Table of Contents:

    Table of Figures
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    1. The Birth of the Live Brain, 1820-1920
    2. Displaying Dynamic Brains: Illuminated Brain Models and the Enchanted Loom, 1928-1938
    3. Demonstrating Brainwaves Beyond the Laboratory: EEG as White Magic and Dark Media, 1934-1941
    4. Broadcasting Live Brains: The Brain on Television and as Television, 1949-1957
    5. Interfacing the Real-Time Brain: EEG Feedback in Art and Science, 1964-1977
    6. Synchronizing Two Dynamic Brains: Art-Science Experiments and Neuroscience in the Wild, 2013-2019
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    List of Sources of Figures

    Index

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