Installation view at Hanging Around, CBK Amsterdam, 2014

Perceiving the Internet as a virtual cloud of information is not dissimilar to how I visualise my brain and all the thoughts and chaos of my mind. And it is not dissimilar to how I envisage the universe either—a similarly complex and not fully empirically observable entity. The universe, the Internet, the brain, are infinitely complex and hard to visualise or map out. Through (digitally) fabricated and modified representations, we have created an image of what the Internet, our brains, and the universe might look like.

Ideas and questions about chaos, imperfection, connections, infinity, virtual clouds, analogue versus digital, nature versus technology, expansion, shreds of imperfect knowledge, borders and pathways: this is what I wanted to explore with Brain-net. I want to consider what the Internet, brain and our microcosm of the universe feels like, looks like, I want to know how it smells.

With Brain-net I am suspended inside my physical and tactile web, suspended in the complex network of my mind, hanging, floating in space, surrounded by planets, stones, fragments of information and memories.

Gold-, brass-, stainless steel-, coated-, telephone- and copper- wires. Stones, minerals, a potato, copper sheet, paper, encyclopaedia and atlas pages, printed circuit board, wood and cardboard.