Introduction
Neural Connections #1
At last, I can share the news that a new series, Neural Connections, is underway. The first work in this series, Neural Connections #1, is now finished. It is made in aspen wood and inspired by how oligodendrocytes hold on to sections of a neuron. On the lower right hand side, there is even a…
Two new articles published, just in time for summer vacation
Sometimes in academia, articles you have worked on over several years, suddenly are published at the same time. This spring was one such experience for me and my co-author Camilla Groth: In May, a text we had worked on since 2018(!) expanding on the concept of embodied learning, titled “Thinking through hands in education” was…
A new article, an exhibition, a conference and a seminar
September 2023 has been busy and super fun! So much has happened that I only briefly recap it here: Conference presentation and Article September 20th, 2023, I held a presentation at the Biennial international conference for the craft sciences, BICCS, September 20th. I participated online to audiences both in-person in Mariestad, and online. After my…
Outreach activity: ByLAB-Notodden, March 2023
Wednesday, March 29, I will present my artistic work and research at the town square down-town Notodden. My heading this day is “Woodcarving and neuroscience”, and I present my work in the MakingMatters? project, my Astrocyte-Series and my Purkinje-Series. I now call the artistic work “The Forest in Our Brain” or – in Norwegian: “Hjerneskogen”.…
Two boxes in the Astrocyte Series
At last. I have now finished two of my most complex (yet) three-dimensional wood carved boxes: Astrocyte#1 and Astrocyte#2. They are spiky and wonky and smooth to the touch. I have spent innumerable hours carving smaller and smaller chips, and stretched my ability to visualize in three dimensions to its limit. Now the two, small,…
Learning from a brain tumor: how a skilled artist’s experience of a brain tumor reveals hitherto unimagined brain function
On January 26, 2022, Peggy Mason and I held an invited guest lecture at the Swedish university “Konstfack”. The lecture was a part of their annual Research Week, and we joined in via zoom to meet a big group of students and faculty. The title of the lecture was “Learning from a brain tumor: how…
Three Purkinje Boxes joins a Collective exhibition/research days USN
The three boxes from the PURKINJE SERIES presented in this exhibition have long and thin branches stretching outwards. When the upper and lower part of the boxes slides apart, a gilded, hollow room is exposed in the middle. Each box is the size of a reluctant forest feline. Like the cat, the box parts resists…
ARTICLE: There and back again: A carver’s tale of losing and regaining sense of space due to a brain tumour
This spring my most personal and important article thus far was published by Craft Research Journal. You can read and download it for free here: https://doi.org/10.1386/crre_00043_1 (backup link to the article in my university repository here: https://openarchive.usn.no/usn-xmlui/handle/11250/2756610 ) I have been working on this article since January 2018, collecting data and analyzing the material slowly…
Exhibition: PURKINJE, 2020
The Purkinje Series was exhibited at Foajegalleriet, University of South-Eastern Norway, Notodden, September 9 – October 9, 2020. The solo-exhibition featured works made in the period 2018-2020: Purkinje #2: Bowl, 46cm x 17cm x 6cm Purkinje #3: Bowl, 44cm x 12cm x 6cm Purkinje #4: Bowl, 88cm x 19cm x 7cm Purkinje #5: Bowl, 38cm…
The Purkinje Series – a poetic text
Norsk versjon finnes nedenfor. Small packets of positively charged particles, ions, push across the space from one neuron to another. In the portals at the far end of the dendrites of the next cell, the ions are let in and trigger a voltage in the new cell. The cell nucleus interprets rhythm, pattern, strength and…
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Marte S. Gulliksen - Researcher, Artist, Teacher 