Collaboration imPRINTING the medial prefrontal cortex

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’, allows you to listen to the brain’s Collaboration Channel imprinted in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPC) and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years.

Collaborations include

Bell Labs & rebooting E.A.T., Brian Eno & OneFlow, DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh & Postcards for Democracy, Dr Robert Wilson & the Raw Space Broadcast, EarthPercent x Michael Stipe & the Bioplastic record, Linda Perry & studio sessions, Mr Fish & the Album Jacket, NASA & From Green to Red

Locations include

34 Montagu Square, Ars Electronica, Barbican, Bell Labs’ Anechoic Chamber, Brian Eno’s Studio, COP26, Holmdel Horn Antenna, Mutato, Rauschenberg Gallery, Svalbard Global Music Vault, V&A

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The MPC covers the front part of the frontal lobe directly behind the forehead

Conversations imPRINTING the Wernicke’s Area

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’, allows you to listen to the brain’s Conversation Channel imprinted in the Wernicke’s area and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years

Conversations include

Aaron Rose, Allee Willis, Brian Eno, Fred Armisen, Henry Rollins, Laraaji, L. Frank, Lesley Chilcott, Linda Fleming, Linda Perry, Mark Mothersbaugh, Dr Melissa Neuman, Money Mark, Queen Cora, Rick Carter, Sarah Finn, Sara Sidner, Shirley Manson, Stephen Pavlovic, Timothy Morton, V. Vale

Topics include

Art, Ancestry, Change, Courage, Creativity, Death, DIY, Ecology, Ego, Energy, Equality, Feelings, Freedom, Ideas, Intuition, Joy, Life, Love, Originality, Our Planet, Play, Power, Presence, Purpose, Simplicity, Truth

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Wernicke’s area  resides in the cortex of the left cerebral hemisphere

Music [Rewind] imPRINTING the limbic system

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’ allows you to listen to the brain’s Music Rewind Channel (incl. live tracks & demos) imprinted in the limbic system and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years

Music [Rewind] tracks include

Pink Balloon (age 9), Let It Boil (1st studio recording), Troubled (age 15), Let’s Crash (tape demo), For the Ego (first 8-track recording, age 17), From Green to Red (inspired by An Inconvenient Truth), Need Somebody (dementia research tour), Little Moth (world’s first 360 AR livestream), As You (live from the world’s quietest room), The Man Who (live BBC Radio Theatre),  Barely Living & Lose Myself (with Linda Perry), To Be Saved (live from She Rocks Awards), Oh My Heart (live Nobel Prize Summit), Something (live Dodger Stadium), Space and Time (with Laraaji), Oh My Heart (world’s first bioplastic record with Michael Stipe) 

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The limbic system is located in the brain's cerebrum, underneath the cerebral cortex

Sounds imPRINTING the Primary Auditory Cortex

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’, allows you to listen to the brain’s Sounds Channel imprinted in the Primary Auditory Cortex (PAC) and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years

Sounds include

Alex Kidd, Anechoic Chamber, The Archers, Basketball, BBC Pips, Bells, BT Landline, Buses, Captain Planet, Car Radio, Carioca Bar, CERN Hadron Collider, Checkout Beeps, Devils Garden, Doorbell, Fax Machine, Holmdel Horn Antenna, Ice Cream Van, Jingles, Letterbox, Mail, Ninjutsu, Popcorn, Portuguese, Prince of Persia, Rainstorms, Record Crackle, Sainsbury’s, SF 49ers, Shipping Forecast, Skateboarding, Slot Canyons, Sonic Phonics, Space Broadcast, Speaking Clock, Spelunx, Street Noises, Strokie, Studio Sounds, Tape Cassettes, Terence McKenna, TFL Mind The Gap, Toad Tossing, TOTPs, Tube, TV, Walking, Willo The Wisp, Wood Pigeons

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The PAC is located in the superior temporal lobe of the brain within Heschl's gyrus

Outer Self imPRINTING the cerebral cortex

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’, allows you to listen to the brain’s Outer Self Channel imprinted in the cerebral cortex and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years

Philosophy includes

Activating Awareness, Anti-Stream, Art & Nature, Box-Free, Bridging Worlds, Ceremony Tangibility & Storytelling, Deeper Experiences, Detours, Imprinting, Inner Vision, Intention, Nature’s Technology, New Formats, Reclaiming & Updating, Retro-Future, Tangible-Digital, Why, Why Not

Projects include 

8ight, From Green to Red, imPRINTING, Montagu Square, Music for Dementia, OneFlow, Orange Juice for the Ears, Postcards for Democracy, Raw Space, Smoke and Mirrors, V&A retrospective

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The cerebral cortex is the outer layer that lies on top of your cerebrum

Inner Self imPRINTING the Hippocampus

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’, allows you to listen to the brain’s Inner Self Channel (made up of journal entries, age 11-19) imprinted in the hippocampus and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 yrs

Adolescent journal themes include

Autonomy, Awakenings, Being, Body, Brainwaves, Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, Clarity, Confusion, Consciousness, Darkness, Determination, Dreams, Epiphanies, Expectations, Explorations, Evolution, Feelings, Freedom, Healing, I Am, Ideas, Identity, Illusions, Imagining, Intuition, Light, Lyrics, Meditation, Messages, Metamorphosis, Pain, Philosophy, Poems, Portal, Power, Presence, Projections, Process, Ramblings, Rants, Reality, Release, Rememberings, Reflections, Self, Signs, Soul, Synchronicities, Time, Transmissions, Truth, Vision, Understanding, Watson, Wisdom, Wounds, Wolfe

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The hippocampus is located deep within the temporal lobe 

Music [Forward] imPRINTING the limbic system

Music Forward Channel imprinted in the limbic system & encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years

Music [Forward] tracks include

Little Things  >>>  I Guess  >>>  Break Away  >>>  Elbow  >>>  Infolding  >>>  Wolf At Your Door  >>>  Do You  >>>  In This Town  >>>  Oh Lord  >>>  Something  >>>  Be There  >>>  Cold in LA  >>>  Circles  >>>  In The End  >>>  Move Through You  >>>  Let’s Crash

Liner notes include

All the tracks here have been written, performed and produced by Beatie Wolfe, recorded in her home studio in the last few years. This music is only available here in Boston Museum of Science

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The limbic system is located in the brain's cerebrum, underneath the cerebral cortex

Memory Channel imPRINTING the neocortex

This telephone, plugged into Beatie Wolfe’s ‘thinking-cap’, allows you to listen to the brain’s Memory Channel imprinted in the neocortex and encoded in glass to be preserved for 10,000 years

Formative memories include

88 Stephendale Road, Arizona, Aurum, Birthdays, Bryce Canyon, Carioca Bar, Char, Colorado, Collide-A-Scope, Devils Garden, Dorset, Driving, Family, Fender Strat, Friends, Gigs, Home Life, Hopi Mesas, I-70, Ibstock, Iris, Leukerbad, Libre, London, Music, Mi Mi, Moab, Mum, N64, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Ninjutsu, Nutville, Paradise City Radio, Petroglyphs, Plays, Portugal, Papa Bear, Rehearsals, Riverside Studios, Road Trips, Rooftop Ninjas, Salema, Sands End, School Trips, Self Reflections, Sketches, Slot Canyons, Smoking, Songwriting, Steranko, Strokie, Swimming, Swiss Boys, Teo, Terence McKenna, Tilly, Utah, Youngblood, Ze

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The neocortex encompasses the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes