Never Mind The Voxels, Find The Boundaries (2021) Painting by Wilf Tilley

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Fine art paper, 9x8 in
  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 20.9in, Width 17.9in
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Categories Conceptual Art Science
A voxel is a three-dimensional unit representing about a million neurons, and used in functional magnetic resonance imaging to represent, via blood flow, localized brain activity. We can watch which parts of the brain are involved in different thinking tasks. Furthermore, psychologically speaking, the brain has what one might call, narrative boundaries: [...]
A voxel is a three-dimensional unit representing about a million neurons, and used in functional magnetic resonance imaging to represent, via blood flow, localized brain activity. We can watch which parts of the brain are involved in different thinking tasks. Furthermore, psychologically speaking, the brain has what one might call, narrative boundaries: it perceives new stories in terms of familiar ones. When I walk into an unfamiliar building, an airport, for example, I can usually navigate my way around by identifying features familiar to other airports I have visited. Furthermore, my visit, like a book, is divided into chapters. There is a number of different activities I must perform before reaching the final chapter and taking my seat on the plane. Each boundary between activities thus marks a scene change. Although the humanoid “characters” in this painting may, at first, look unfamiliar – after all, the painting does not pretend to visualize three dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane like most classical western art – they do suggest an interactive story of some sort. (Oil over black gesso on Funaoka Canvas Panel: 53 x 45.5 cm.)

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Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen [...]

Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen Mirren played Cleopatra and he carried a spear.  “Wilf Tilley” (a combination of parental names) was part-adopted for a first solo exhibition at the AIR Gallery, London, when he was 27. He studied English and European Literature with Italian before a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art, and co-organized fundraising exhibitions for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-apartheid movement: the latter at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. An interest in the neuro-anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci led, via the Open University, to research on neuronal modelling in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and after a two-year Fellowship in the International Center for Medical Research, Kobe, was a founder member, then senior adviser at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute. While at the institute he designed and supervised installation of a brain science exploratorium: "BrainBox". Wilf has held eight solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions internationally, and held a first retrospective in Japan, “The Neuro-mytheologian And Other Works", in 2003.  A second retrospective was held at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo in 2017. And a recent portrait, "Manami-san (2023)", was chosen for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, and toured five galleries nationally (2023-2024). As the co-author of several neurological case studies, Wilf addressed a conference in Japan in 2017 on mental time as a neuroscientific phenomenon, using the techniques of classical rhetoric – as described in the Ad Herrenium – to elucidate episodic memory. He is now working on a panel series, A story in silico, connected with personal memory, nostalgia and fabulation, and recently published two short stories about the art world in the Ekphrastic Review (2022 and 2023).

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