Charlie Murphy, Spontaneous Synapse, 2019, reformed glass burettes, tubing & stopcocks, aluminium scaffold, 3D printed brackets, retort stands, lab clamps, tourniquet tape, robotic lasers, 3D printed brackets, magic arms, cheese plates, 400 x 400 x250 cm
Robotic lasers, interface & bracketry by Robin Bussell Photo: Charlie Murphy
This installation uses refractive properties of reformed scientific glassware to create a dramatic reimagining of neuronal activities. Robotic lasers are choreographed to trace light pathways across a forest of glass neurons creating elaborate caustic patterns of light evocative of the electric pulses of energy passing across networks of braincells.