Art is a mirror for society, especially activist art aiming to provoke political disruption. Emotions triggered by art can have a strong effect on people, highlighting the importance of environmental problems for the individual. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Activism

Gratitude floods the brain with dopamine & serotonin, lights up reward pathways & increases creativity, productivity & higher thinking skills. The more we think positive, grateful thoughts, the healthier & happier we feel.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Gratitude

Women make up 51% of the U.S. population, and yet are underrepresented in each creative domain: contemporary art (28%), fashion (45%), box office film (27%), and popular music (17%).

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Women

Lo-fi music & ASMR are often used for focus but music you choose as stimulation or to ease your brain is matter of preference. Playlists don’t make you focus, they improve your experience of the environment you’re in.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #ASMR

Engaging communities most affected by inequality, climate change & other crises requires collaborations that empower people to imagine possible futures to build collective agency. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Community

Creativity is not really about building something new out of thin air. It’s about using your past experiences, connecting the dots to visualize the future, and letting your mind wander so you can experience more eureka moments.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Eureka

A key factor that allows us to turn adversity into advantage is the extent to which we fully explore our thoughts/feelings surrounding the event enabling us to be curious about confusing situations, increasing the likelihood that we will find new meaning in the seemingly incomprehensible.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Curiosity

Science communication is often restricted to dense, jargon-rich academic journals & the impact limited to the scientific community. Art is able to disseminate findings & improve science literacy & accessibility.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Dissemination

OPEN CALL (Relational Space)

The gender binary currently plots out a trajectory for being human that is restrictive and perpetuates inequality, oppression, violence, dissatisfaction, shame, and gender expectations that do not allow flexibility in individual expression. People are constrained by gender stereotypes and must often disconnect from their authentic selves. For many people the gender ideologies that govern their thoughts, feelings and behaviors remain invisible. What would a future look like where we were simply allowed to show up as we are? How would the human trajectory change with intersectional perspectives? We cannot tackle gun violence without addressing pervasive masculine ideology. We cannot tackle climate change if we don’t understand that 80% of the people displaced from its effects, are women and girls. How can we advance women’s rights when women of color routinely confront racism, poverty and inequality’s other entwined injustices—and have been historically excluded from social movements, including feminism?

Relational Space is now accepting submissions for the juried Art and Science exhibition, Beyond Gender: The Future of Being Human, an exhibition that challenges us to envision a world of equity, inclusivity and emotional connection, where a range of human identities and expression are revered - and, asks, How would society need to evolve to realize this transformation?

The curation is a multi-sensory, immersive and collaborative exhibition. Relational Space welcomes submissions of art works in any media, inclusive of but not limited to: painting, sculpture, photography, video, digital art, sound art, performance, AR, XR and other new media or well-developed ideas for creating the works, in order to realize a deeply compelling event.

Application Instructions
Relational Space brings together diverse artists and scientists to collaboratively envision a future that is inclusive, intersectional and compassionately embraces all identities, in all their forms.

Please read and respond to the full exhibition narrative at:
https://lnkd.in/eauEvXnY

Please submit through the submission portal on the Relational Space website:
https://lnkd.in/etsCs_zN

On the Relational Space website, you will also find submission guidelines and our Open Call FAQ including timeline, file parameters etc. In addition to images, you will be prompted to submit an artist’s statement and bio as well as a complete description of your work.

See https://lnkd.in/eSPf-Sv for all details regarding the process for collaboration and co-curation

The controlled use of fire for cooking was an early driver in language development & creativity. Greater caloric intake/diversity contributed to larger hominin brain size, enhancing neuroplasticity, divergent thinking & creativity. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Food

Neuroaesthics explore how art & design impact physical/emotional well-being. Ergonomics & biomimicry, can promote recovery in a home environment. Incorporating plants &water fixtures are rejuvenating & nature-inspired patterns wield restorative power & promote wellness.

https://businessofhome.com/articles/neuroscience-is-making-its-way-into-design-here-s-what-the-experts-have-to-say-about-it.html

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Design

Flow experiences (the psychological state of absorption, concentration & enjoyment) are generally stable across the lifespan - differences in flow experiences are likely to be associated with sociocultural structures more than psychobiological changes in adulthood.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Flow

When art becomes confrontational it achieves an aesthetic revolutionary potential. When it fights for its space/ position it becomes avant-garde. The politics of aesthetics produces its own politics, to re-arrange politics & re-configure art as a political issue or assert itself as true politics.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Politics

Clustering is linked to divergent thinking, i.e., the free generation of ideas. Switching is related to the ability to combine distant associations between concepts. The alternations between exploratory search & focused attention support creativity

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Creativity

Speakers placed on restoration reefs are able to lure oyster larvae to that the sounds of a healthy reef ecosystem, increasing the recruitment of oysters a thousandfold though they lack any obvious sound-sensing organ.  

https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/scientists-use-sound-to-attract-baby-oysters-70326?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY_NEWSLETTER_2022&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=233360166&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_OVe0nUH4qFz-MdmTmzxyt44ihZonPrv7apgYI63icAj_YAtSxXKnSKDvYdmWy7lrhtTIRZyFTQprKVrj94bd1wjjqHg&utm_content=233360166&utm_source=hs_email

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Sound

Prehistoric humans, using kinesthetic sense, engaged with materials to substantiate concepts of deer, boats etc. to create cave art. Considering the animate nature of lines & the kinesthetic response they have on the body, contemporary artistic practices can find parallels to ancient rock art. 

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #CaveArt

Neuroscientists have found that clubbers move more to very low frequencies, even though they are not consciously detectable, likely being picked up by mechanoreceptors on the skin & in the body, & the vestibular system in the inner ear, which is linked to balance.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Sound

Research shows that poor office design contributes to dismal evaluations & poor mental health for employees. Enriched offices with cultural events & “interesting & visually striking art” at the workplace, significantly contributes to their well-being.

https://hyperallergic.com/777242/art-in-the-workplace-improves-employee-well-being-study-finds/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D110722&utm_content=D110722+CID_760d8525d45fbf397c65008beeeff32a&utm_source=hn&utm_term=having+interesting+and+visually+striking+art+at+the+workplace

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Work

Mental imagery is central to the cognitive control of emotion generation, reactivity & control and can be used to effectively down- & up-regulate fear conditioned responses (making fear less or more negative, respectfully).

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Fear

Expanded convergent/divergent thinking produces creative happiness over the lifespan for those both the arts & sciences & all exhibit heroic behavior (ie bearing individual costs to happiness/health to provide benefits for society) tho may also be driven by desire to explore or for immortality.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Thinking

Killer whales are dynamic in their thinking & behavior, enabling them to adapt to changing environments, which enhances survival. As the ocean apex predator, orcas display a number of complex cognitive abilities, especially flexible thinking or creativity when it comes to foraging.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Whales

Creative solutions often occur after an incubation period: getting away from the problem for a bit, to break up repetitive & routine thinking that interferes with finding creative solutions. Mindfulness practices provides incubation periods that help to spur creative thought.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Mindfullness

Artworks provide access to empowered, belonging, & empathic attitudes, that nurture “active caring” person state: an agentic, pro-social disposition that correlates with greater environmental action and can facilitate transformative learning.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Empowerment

Dyslexia is a neurological condition caused by the brain being wired a different way & is typically described as a brain/learning disorder; but, people with dyslexia have heightened creativity, curiosity, reasoning & visualization.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Dyslexia

Using technology we begin to understand the multi-sensory experiences of non-human animals & explore how they experience aesthetic pleasure to expand beyond traditional aesthetic dimensions of design.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Animals

The trick to collaboration amongst diverse arts & sciences stakeholders is decentralization, dispersion, undisciplining, with a focus on how to approach problems & finding common ways of interacting.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Collaboration

Creative writing & cognitive neuroscience jointly illuminate how writing can change our minds by enhancing our tolerance for uncertainty. Creative writing promotes dual cognition involving both sensory experience & detachment, is therapeutic, & shares the benefits of mindfulness.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Writing

Incorporating the arts into our daily lives improves overall well-being across age groups. Art provides a method/tools for retraining the brain to let go of habits that are not serving us & cultivate ones that do.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Wellness

Dominant (colonial) models of creativity consider it a cognitive mechanism, disregarding/minimizing the body as merely responding to what the brain thinks/perceives, rather than the body as a place of creative generation.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Embodiment

The experience of meaningful coincidences or apophenia, the propensity to perceive meaning in random occurrences, is linked with paranormal beliefs. Creative people are mor

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Apophenia

The creative process in new media art is high in uncertainty. Collaborative learning is key for the non-linear, intertwined explicit & tacit knowledge exchange of skills, ideas & resources. Curiosity & trust facilitate the conditions for knowledge exchanges.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Collaboration

Body awareness, sensory experience & spatial perception are increasingly diversified with mixed reality & motion-sensing tech. Kinesthetic/synesthetic experiences anchored in the lived body enhance the aesthetic sensibility of design thinking re: how people perceive sensory phenomena & mind–body connectivity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Design

Integrating the arts & sciences in education, enhances systems thinking, expands perceptions of interconnectedness & facilitates critical analysis of how & for whom actions, choices, & policies affect daily life.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Adaptation

Creativity is an indispensable element for individual flexibility & adaptation on 2 levels: psychological, which is the production of individual novelty & historical, which is the production of novelty for the whole culture.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Adaptation

While memory & imagination exist as rhetorically distinct cognitive phenomena, research increasingly converges around a unified architecture that provides a common basis for memory & imagination.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Imagination

The combination of two key factors—support from colleagues at work & compassionate love at home—make for the most successful employees, are valuable to career success & are most likely to lead to increased creativity.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Friendship

The power of arts & sciences is in “teaching” together; not in an additive way, but with each offering unique ways “to make sense”. Truly transdisciplinary implies entangling subject disciplines, as important activities of creation.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #CoCreate

Highly creative people have unique brain connectivity, with more direct, longer-distance connections. They are less efficient but faster & more random, enabling associations to solve problems which other people do not see.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Brain

Physical space is the context of creativity revolving around 3 questions: (1) What kinds of creative processes does a space enable/hinder? (2) How does it feel to work there? (3) What kinds of collective meanings are attached to it?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijmr.12286

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Context

Museums do so much for individuals & community: Ignite curiosity, share artifacts & tell stories; but to remain relevant, they must become more inclusive as facilitators of social change.

#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #SocialChange