[ISEA2011] Artist Statement: Mike Paulin – Computational Visualization of the Electromagnetic Sensory World of Sharks

Artist Statement

How the shark’s electro-sensory system evolved, from simple(r) to sophisticated creatures? Seems to me there’s a story there, about art and science and storytelling as ways of seeing and navigating.

  • Mike Paulin is Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He studies fundamental questions about brain function using computer models of early nervous system evolution, and models of nervous system function in animals as diverse as spiders, sharks and humans. He takes a synthetic, rather than an analytic, approach to understanding brains and minds, by embedding brain models in virtual animals and robots, in simulated and real environments.

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