The Consciousness Field

The Consciousness Field is a travelling interactive installation where ideas about what consciousness is are collected. The pompoms represent the neurons of the human brain. The creator Maria Lopes gathers all the definitions of consciousness, to conduct a frequency analysis and a word pattern emerges. she then compare these from place to place. Maria intends to have a giant Consciousness Field once she has taken the installation to several countries with definitions in different languages. The Consciousness Field is a piece of Experimental Anthropology where art and science interlay.  Maria is an artist/ anthropologist with a interest in neuroscience. In 2009 she declared: ‘Cartesian Dualism is Dead: Cogito et Sentio Ergo Sum’ (I think and feel therefore I am). Maria has exhibited and curated in London and New York. Born in 1977 in Portugal. Moved to London in 1996.