We are proud to present the Year Two update to director Noah Hutton’s 10-year film-in-the-making that will chronicle the progress of The Blue Brain Project, Henry Markram’s attempt to reverse-engineer the brain, culminating in a documentary feature in 2020. If you haven’t seen Year One, you can watch that here. Enjoy the piece and let us know what you think.
The film is being produced by Noah Hutton’s production company, Couple 3.
We are excited to announce that we’ve partnered with the Neuro Bureau to organize a major group show exploring the brain through art, entitled Subjective Resonance Imaging, to be held in Seattle from June 16-20, in conjunction with the 2013 Human Brain Mapping conference. The show will feature many of the artists we’ve presented here at The Beautiful Brain, including Greg Dunn, Katherine Sherwood, Elizabeth Jameson, Constance Jacobson, and many more. There will also be a thorough show catalogue we will be publishing, featuring images of all the artwork in addition to essays and interviews with thought leaders in neuroaesthetics.
“Cajal’s Revenge” by Katherine Sherwood
Crucially, we need your help to make it all happen: if you have a moment and the interest, check out the project’s Indiegogo page. There are thank-you rewards at all levels of participation, and for a contribution of $40, we will mail you the aforementioned show catalogue.
It’s realy very disappointing that the film is so short, only 10 minutes if you remove the start & the end shell. I was so waiting for this part, and I expected much more than only 10 minutes, I wanted to hear more details.
Maybe what is more disappointing is the fact that the advance in the project was so small that it needed only 10 minutes to be displayed.
I hope that Year Three will be better than that.
Most of their advancements probably can’t all be incorporated in the simulation at once, given that they need more computing power.
Incredible! It’s so nice to see outside-the-box film-making about outside-the-box science.
Very nice…Can’t wait for Year 3-10
http://www.kurzweilai.net/henry-markram-simulating-the-brain-next-decisive-years
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Well done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rPH1Abuu9M
Henry Markram, Ph.D., Director of the Blue Brain Project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, speaks at the International Supercomputing Conference 2011.
This is one of my new favourite videos! Well done, this was facinating.
Still, it makes me feel like a bit of a robot to see the function of neurons explained in such a way.
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It’s realy very disappointing that the film is so small
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Precious piece of film! It seemed a bit short to me, though. It’s always awesome how mysterious the human body is, the deeper we get into it the less we know about.
Keep up the good work!
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Could the films perhaps be made available in non-flash format? I prefer watching movies on my iPad, much more relaxing that way. im sure many others would like to do the same
nature has shown that brains come in many shapes and sizes, so i see no reason why yours won’t work. It might not be conscious, but it should be capable of some thought.
Can’t wait for the Year Three video. When will it be available? Thank you.
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