“Two new Insight Artists-in-Residence announced: AlanJames Burns and Erin Redmond” (Insight Centre)
AlanJames Burns grateful recipient of Artist-In-Residence position at Insight Centre Dublin City University a Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Data Analytics. The Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics artist-in-residence programme awards artists in the community who wish to engage in scientific research to further their own practice, fostering links between the arts and […]
Review of ABAM at Contemporary LYNX
As I look at the artist’s brain, slowly pulsating, they begin to describe it to me. “Wrinkly foreskin” they say at one point. “A Picasso”. Minutes pass, and the MRI of the brain recedes into a smaller and smaller image. At the point of implosion, where it becomes less an object and more a vaporous […]
“Insight: ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind,’ delving into the workings of the brain(s) in real-time” (Clot Magazine)
There is an exciting interplay of technology and language in Burns’ practice. It is a specific use of language that layers on top of the work, creating space for feelings of affinity and allowing the possibility of an error; it embraces the fallibility of our minds, technology, and our relationship to it. It also points […]
This Must Be The Place: AlanJames Burns (RHA Talk)
Catch a talk by AlanJames Burns on their site specific work as part of the RHA This Must Be The Place Talk series on 27 Oct 2022 External Link
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AlanJames Burns AlanJames Burns produces collaborative, interactive, socially engaged and site-specific exhibitions. The focal points of their artistic and curatorial practice are disability, climate change and the human mind. Full Biography PDF Enquires General: studio@alanjamesburns.com
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Silicone Synapse
Silicon Synapse ‘Silicon Synapse’ is an immersive Virtual Reality and psycho-acoustic experience that will take you on a simulated journey into the personified mind of ‘Technology’. Listening to the inner dialogue of ‘Technology’s’ mind as it replays both sides of a lovers’ quarrel. ‘Technology’ and its life partner ‘Nature’ argue about the sustainability of their […]
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“Opinion: Neurodiversity could be a powerful tool to help re-shape the world” (Journal.ie)
IN 2018, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, having severely struggled for decades with my relationship to language, words and printed text. The diagnosis came as a relief in some ways, as learning I had double deficit dyslexia allowed me to describe and articulate my experience. I found that people had a clearer understanding […]