The alliances are most valuable when scientists and artists have a shared stake in a project, are able to jointly design it and can critique each other's work.

I am keeping my critique, because the site did feature the bad design for more than a year - and in any case you can still learn from their mistake, even after they [partly] fixed it.

Upon completion, students should be able to understand and critique published fMRI papers, have a good grasp on what is known about high-level vision from fMRI, and design their own fMRI experiments.