David Byrne opens a neuroscience-themed art exhibit

David Byrne is no stranger to making odd, tech-infused art exhibits, but he's kicking things up a notch.

David Byrne launches weird performance art exhibit in Silicon Valley

“Is it science, art, theater, or what?”

DAVID BYRNE’S BEAUTIFUL MIND

This fall, the artist and former Talking Heads frontman introduces an installation that taps into his scientific side.

Can Art Teach Us About Our Brains? Inside David Byrne’s Mind-Bending New Project

“Real beauty is something that knocks you a little bit off-kilter,” David Byrne once said in an interview.

David Byrne to stage neuroscience exhibition at Pace

David Byrne announces neuroscience art exhibition at Pace.

David Byrne Brings Neuroscience to Pace Gallery

The two fields have more in common than meets the eye.

Dimensions Variable: Art Installations, Interventions, and Environments To Experience This November

The following list highlights installations and environments now on view – from new site-specific installations, to historic works, restaged.

To Do List: January

The Institute Presents: Neurosociety made the list!

David Byrne on not being afraid to fail

The iconic artist talks about trying new things, being seen as something other than a musician, and creating Neurosociety, a large-scale immersive art piece.

David Byrne’s Theatrical Thought Experiment in Silicon Valley

My first reaction? It looks like a nail salon run by Barbarella.

David Byrne’s Psychological Fun House

The former Talking Head messes with our minds.

David Byrne’s science experiment with art, theater

The good news is that, from what I can tell, it’s not absolutely fixed. Our biases have changed.

Talking Heads’ David Byrne Brings Neuroscience to an Art Gallery

Just shy of a year at its new 20,000-square-foot Menlo Park digs, Pace Art + Technology has opened a second 4,000-square-foot space next door to house its latest exhibit featuring multi-talented artist David Byrne, the Talking Heads frontman, and tech investor Mala Gaonkar.

The Institute Presents: Neurosociety

Now in the heart of Silicon Valley, David Byrne has a new performance installation up challenging the way we make decisions – political and otherwise.

David Byrne Announces Art Exhibition on Neuroscience

“We won’t be running these experiments like the labs do, but recreating some of their work in more entertaining or theatrical ways.”

David Byrne Gets In Your Head With Immersive Neuroscience Theater Show

In the course of creating The Institute, the work of our partner labs has become both a window and a mirror through which we view ourselves and our larger interactions with the world.

Like Humans Do

"People will come to their own conclusions. Let them have those intuitions. It's a much richer and deeper realization rather than me ... saying this or that,"

David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar Talk Experiential Learning and Art at McMurtry

Yet their conversation made clear that they share both a deep curiosity about the workings of the human mind and an attention to the details of the human experience.

Happenings

Co-created by David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) and technology investor Mala Gaonkar, The Institute Presents: Neurosociety is an experimental exhibition that directly involves its audience in cognitive demonstrations.

David Byrne’s Neuroscience ‘Neurosociety’ Exhibition

When science meets entertainment: David Byrne’s ‘Neurosociety’ uses art to teach us about our brains and takes us on an immersive theatrical experience while he's at it.

David Byrne announces “immersive theatrical” art exhibition on neuroscience

Byrne and Mala Gaonkar create “The Institute Presents: Neurosociety”.

Artful State of Mind

Then the challenge is: how to do it so it's fun.

David Byrne opens theatrical neuroscience exhibit

The idea is that rather than people passively gazing at exhibits, they immersive themselves with the installations and engage with the research outcomes.

Tour David Byrne’s Brain-Twisting New VR Experience

David Byrne, former Talking Heads frontman, gives a tour of Neurosociety, his new experimental theater meets neuroscience experience in Silicon Valley.

Experience Interactive Experiments with David Byrne in NEUROSOCIETY

“This (experience) should provoke a conversation. I think that’s the point of this. It’s not to sort of dictate a lesson—you’re biased about X or Y—when you learn about these biases, how does that change how you make decisions maybe over time?”

Talking Heads’ David Byrne Introduces ‘Neurosociety’ Exhibition in Silicon Valley

"After an hour, I'd navigated moral dilemmas, got tricked into believing a moving object was standing still, predicted (with limited success) the winners of an election, and found myself experiencing life as though I'd been turned into a doll."