Flora (2024)
Deep brain image reconstruction - collaboration with scientist Yukiyasu Kamitani
This work is a collaboration between Mogens Jacobsen and the Japanese neuroinformatics researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani from Kyoto University. Kamitani is researching "deep image reconstruction from human brain activity", a technique that reconstructs visual impressions from brain activity using functional MRI scanning and artificial intelligence.
In Flora, Kamitani and Jacobsen have created 18 reconstructed floral motifs. Subjects have been "mind-read" while looking at copper engravings from the botanical book Flora Danica (1761-1883) by the doctor Georg Christian Oeder. The brain-scan data was analyzed by Misato Tanaka at Kamitani Lab.
All images in the exhibition are based on reconstructed illustrations of dandelions and thistles.
The images are exhibited on a construction of pine wood with small laser engravings
A small printed edition of selected flower images is available for purchase from Lucky Editions.
Ringsted Galleriet
Grosserer L.F Foghs Fond
Poul Johansen Fonden
In Flora, Kamitani and Jacobsen have created 18 reconstructed floral motifs. Subjects have been "mind-read" while looking at copper engravings from the botanical book Flora Danica (1761-1883) by the doctor Georg Christian Oeder. The brain-scan data was analyzed by Misato Tanaka at Kamitani Lab.
All images in the exhibition are based on reconstructed illustrations of dandelions and thistles.
The images are exhibited on a construction of pine wood with small laser engravings
A small printed edition of selected flower images is available for purchase from Lucky Editions.
Thanks to:
Yukiyasu Kamitani & Misato TanakaRingsted Galleriet
Grosserer L.F Foghs Fond
Poul Johansen Fonden