Brainmedia

<p>Will we ever be able to see the brain at work? Could it be possible to observe thinking and feeling as if watching a live broadcast from within the human head? <i>Brainmedia </i>uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies: from exhibitions of giant illuminated brain models and staged projections of brainwave recordings to live televised brain broadcasts brains hooked up to computers and experiments with brain-to-brain synchronization. <p/>Drawing on archival material <i>Brainmedia </i>outlines a new history of live brains arguing that practices of-and ideas about-mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. By combining accounts of scientists examining brains in laboratories with examples of public demonstrations and exhibitions of brain research <i>Brainmedia </i>casts new light on popularization practices placing them at the heart of scientific work.</p>