NeuroArt 2019

Check out all the finalist pieces in the NeuroArt catalogue 2019

The 12th of March we celebrated the NeuroArt Gala, where students presented theirs works of art, at CCCB.

This edition counted with the collaboration of Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología – Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.

The awarded pieces were:
 

In your mind: award to the best presentation

The award to the best presentation was given to In your mind, with which the students of Jesús María Claudina school (Barcelona) show Zelig Syndrome, a disorder in which mirror neurons, whose cognitive function is linked to social behaviour and empathy, make people copy other people’s behaviour.

La caixa dels sentits: award to the most creative and original piece.

The piece La caixa dels sentits, by Institut de l’Alt Foix (Sant Martí Sarroca, Barcelona) won the award to the most creative and original piece. Through lights representing nervous impulses, this work shows what happens in the brain when people touch, smell, hear, see or taste something.

Mirant pel microscopi: de Ramón y Cajal a l’actualitat: award to the best artistic representation of neurosciences for 1st and 2nd grade of secondary education.

The award to the best artistic representation of neurosciences for 1st and 2nd grade of secondary education was given to the students of the Institut Ferran Casablancas (Sanadell) for their work Mirant pel microscopi: de Ramón y Cajal a l’actualitat, formed by two pieces that represent the before and after of microscope imaging techniques.

Reacciona!: award to the best artistic representation of neurosciences for 3rd and 4th grade of secondary education.

Escola Cooperativa El Puig (Esparreguera) won the award to the best artistic representation of neurosciences for 3rd and 4th grade of secondary education for the work Reacciona!, a video explaining the reactions of human beings to stimuli we receive when listening to different kinds of music (high and low).

 

For more information about the NeuroArt Gala click here

The awards of the 2019 edition of NeuroArt have been sponsored by CCCB, Pasqual Maragall Foundation, CosmoCaixa Barcelona and the Museum of Chocolate.