Epilepsy art project wins prize

Australian scientists who created an interactive art project that emulates the uncontrolled activity of nerve tissue in epilepsy are celebrating first prize in the prestigious VIDA 12.0 art competition, announced recently in Spain. The Silent Barrage installation, researched and developed at the University of Western Australia, comprises 32 robotic poles, each responding via the Internet to the electrical activity that occurs in the “brain” - a neural network grown in a petri dish in a lab thousands of kilometres away....