Working in the attic studio on these floor sculptures. Feeling they are moving forward positively.
I continually, well increasingly want to remind myself and others of our integral relationship with the planet we live on, and the way we solely develop our anatomy and thoughts in relation to its structure. In researching sleep and the microbiome, I am extremely interested in the fact that light affects the gut microbiome and the production of vitamin D which controls sleep. And how we have a dependence on the 'pond', the 'ocean', we carry within us, and that we have carried with us as we moved out of the sea and began to inhabit the land. The sea - the pond that once surrounded early forms of life is now carried within us. A round organism swimming in the sea becomes a tube, and the walls of our gut are a boundary to the outside.
In this evolutionary process are 'we' responsible for this or did the microbiome in us organise and manufacture this move to the resources of the land?
It is not our anatomy but a shared anatomy, where we host many valuable bacteria, that through our joint production of proteins allow us to survive.
We need a good and solid daily dose of light to perpetuate the processes that sustain us and remarkably regulate our gut and our rhythms of life.
Andrew Carnie is an artist and academic at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. His practice often involves a meaningful interaction with scientists. He is part of the Critical Practices Research team where his interests lie in exploring the self, through notions of hybridity, in organ transplantation and immunology. Other themes and ideas are often based on neurology, the brain, and how we get a sense of ourselves through scientific ideas, and images The work is often time-based in nature, involving slide dissolve systems or video projection onto complex screens. In darkened spaces layered images appear and disappear on suspended voiles, the developing display absorbing the viewer into an expanded sense of space and time through slowly unfolding narratives that evolve around them. His work has been exhibited at the Science Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, Design Museum, Zurich, Exit Art, in New York, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Great North Museum, Newcastle, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Dresden Hygiene Museum, Morevska Gallery, Brno, and the Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea amongst many others, most recently the Hatton Gallery and Vane, Newcastle.
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See more work at the website: http://www.tram.ndo.co.uk/artworks.htm
At Axis web: http://www.axisweb.org/p/andrewcarnie
Current exhibitions and projects: http://andrewcarnieexhibtionsandstuff.blogspot.com/
Science and art blog: http://scienceandart--andrew-carnie.blogspot.com/
Optogenetics project: http://globaleyeartsoptogenetics.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine Heart project: http://www.andrewcarnie.org.uk/heart/index.html http://distributedbodies.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine
Neurology project: http://artandsciencethewintertree.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine http://theprojectedtree.blogspot.co.uk/
Website: http://www.andrewcarnie.co.uk
Archive of work: http://andrewcarnie.org.uk/archive/index.html
Supported by The Artists Agency: https://www.theartistsagency.co.uk/andrew-carnie/
All images: courtesy of the artist Andrew Carnie
Andrew Carnie Artists: Art: Art Work: Science: Art and Science: Science and Art: SciArt: Art Science: Drawing: Print: Photography: Installation: Video Art: Paint: Painting: Oil Painting: Paint Online: Watercolour Painting: Drawing: Sound Art: Sculpture: Modern Art: MOMA
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