You can experience ‘Silicon Synapse’ within the repurposed historic setting of the Carnegie Library, in Swords, Co. Dublin. This library was once a place of knowledge and learning, shaping the minds and synapses of thousands. Now you have the chance to enter through the remnant doors of this library, and into the imagined mind of the silicon technology, which has largely replaced it.

‘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.