Silicon Synapse | a collaboration with AlanJames Burns

‘Silicon Synapse’ is an immersive Virtual Reality and psycho-acoustic experience that will take you on a simulated journey into the personified mind of ‘Technology’. Listening to the inner dialogue of ‘Technology’s’ mind as it replays both sides of a lovers’ quarrel. ‘Technology’ and its life partner ‘Nature’ argue about the sustainability of their relationship and their future as a couple. ‘Silicon Synapse’ explores evolution, genetic engineering and transhumanism. Each viewer is engulfed by a conscious dream-like realm, as they travel through intense listening and visual experiences. 

‘Silicon Synapse’ is created by the artist AlanJames Burns. ‘Silicon Synapse’ is a collaboration with writer Sue Rainsford, artist Jason Dunne and composer Michael Riordan. The artwork is jointly commissioned by Fingal County Council Arts Office and the European Commission’s SciArt programme and is funded by Arts Council of Ireland Open Call Award 2019. ‘Silicon Synapse’ coincides with Fingal County Council’s Arts Office Public Art Programme focusing on the development of the Swords Cultural Quarter project.

The experience is exhibited concurrently as part of the Datami Festival at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, Milan, Italy and will move to Bozar, Brussels, December 2019.