“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 […]
“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 […]