Mind Mine Stage 3 - The Mind Mine Web Portal.

www.mindmine.net

The human brain, one of the final intellectual frontiers, is vast and unknown, intimidating in its complexity. Rather than act as a barrier, this knowledge drove creative arts leader, Campbell Works, to make this mighty organ accessible to still developing minds.

Part of the brain’s inaccessibility is born from the rather abstract way it looks and functions – but what if the brain were made tangible, transformed into a structure two stories high, a physical and functional labyrinth representing the entire brain – a ‘Mind Mine’

This is what Campbell Works achieved with their Wellcome Trust Pulse award, a physical playground built by artists and children in which planning, mapping, construction, and creativity fused to create a vast, immersive neurological environment. Upon entering Mind Mine, the audience were able to simultaneously explore, play, and interact with the installation.

With the backing of a new Creative Encounters award from the Wellcome Trust, the Mind Mine project is now being developed into an experimental web portal. Enter and discover an exciting range of games, films, information, animations, downloadable classroom experiments and worksheets and much more. Contribute and have your say on the Mind Mine Wiki and forum pages.

Campbell Works are currently working with a team of web developers on the project, which will go live in the late Autumn 07

Mind Mine was conceived and created by artists Harriet Murray and Neil Taylor, who worked with over 100 young people and adults, and in collaboration with scientist Elaine Beattie, Lecturer in Biopsychology at Goldsmith College, and digital animator Maf’j Alvarez.

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A Campbell Works project supported by the Wellcome Trust