Illuminating the Self

I recently came across an exhibition online that I sadly missed at the time. However, when looking at the different online resources, I found it relevant to my own work, so decided to write a blog post on it, although I didn’t actually see it in person. The exhibition I am talking about is ‘Illuminating the Self’ featuring Susan Aldworth and Andrew Carnie. It was placed, both thematically as well as locally at the interface of art and medicine, responding to scientific epilepsy research at Newcastle University and the University’s CANDO project (Controlling Abnormal Network Dynamics using Optogenetics). While some of the artworks exhibited dealt with the emotional impact of living with the neurological condition of epilepsy, others explored the neurological processes leading to and occurring during an epileptic seizure, or the impact of technology on innovative new epilepsy treatments.