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Bone & Blood: Structural Bodies in Motion
Surreal Art In The Macabre Barts Pathology Museum, London
The impressive permanent co has been largely closed to the public since the 1970s but it’s filled with fascinating and macabre specimens such as a conjoined twin skeleton and the rotting hand of a leper.
The collection usually only opens to the public alongside special events and seminars; but for the next two weeks, it’s open to the public, giving you the opportunity to see such treasures as a collapsed windpipe simply labelled ‘strangulation’, with the rest of the story left to visitors’ imagination.
Until 27 of August 2013
For more info, check here
Leonardo da Vinci_The Mechanics of Man
Leonardo da Vinci_The Mechanics of Man
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
Long recognised as one of the great artists of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was also a pioneer in the understanding of human anatomy. Had his ground-breaking work been published, it would have transformed European knowledge of the subject.
This exhibition displays thirty sheets of Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical studies, which date from the winter of 1510-11 when he carried out some 20 autopsies at the University of Pavia in collaboration with the professor of anatomy, Marcantonio della Torre, and uses the latest medical technology including CT and MRI scans, computer simulations and 3D film of the body to explore the modern relevance of his anatomical research. This juxtaposition shows how far-sighted Leonardo’s work was, and how close he came to 21st-century medical thinking.
More info about the exhibition here
Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564): Art and Science Symposium in Zakynthos, September 2014
In September 2014, under the auspices of the municipality of Zakynthos and the Embassy of Belgium in Athens, the Ionian Island will host events commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius in Brussels. The Flemish physician, the father of modern human anatomy, died on Zakynthos, Greece, in 1564.
The 2014 events are being organized by an enthusiastic team of volunteers: Pascale Pollier, Ann Van de Velde, Mark Gardiner, Pavlos Kapsambelis, Gerassimos Coidan and coordinator Theo Dirix, financially managed by the Belgian not-for-profit organization BIOMAB: http://biomedicalart.blogspot.gr/
Account: IBAN: BE88 0016 1775 0741 / BIC: GEBABEBB
For the official website of the symposium check here
PROJECT ANATOME of Rachael Allen
Project ANATOME
Commenced October 2012 (funding applications in progress)
The collaboration between artist and medical academics,students and physicians will explore how contemporary art can offer new perspectives on how we come to see and know ourselves through anatomical studies.
The artist will be resident in Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham University anatomy labs (UK) during the academic year 2012-2014, with the dissemination of the project and artworks scheduled throughout this period.
Past and Current projects and exhibitions from Project ANATOME:
Death and Dissection: (solo exhibition)
Let Be Be Finale of Seem
A series of events presenting work about death and the way it structures life
studio 41, Glasgow
25th – 26th May 2012
Death and Dissection contemplates moral issues associated with the practice of human dissection, and offer a view into the anatomy lab through a sensual screen. Paying homage to the 16th-18th century medical students who would bear witness to bodily decomposition, and thus, were closer to death, the workshop invites one to view, and handle, the vital process without which life would not be possible – decay.
The waiting room (solo exhibition)
Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne
7th September- 15th October 2012
Life Bioscience Centre, International Centre for Life
15th October – December 2012
In ‘The waiting room’, artworks of high skill and material expertise serve a richer, more creative perspective on human illness and suffering than can be achieved by quantitative measures, medical diagnoses’ and bioethical regulations.
‘Specimen Life (death) Drawing’ presentation & ‘Death and Dissection’ experimental project
Drawing in the University, International Meeting on Drawing, Image and
Research, University of Oporto, Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Architecture, Portugal, May 31 and June 1, 2013
Abstract for ‘Specimen Life (death) Drawing’
Abstract for ‘Death and Dissection’ experimental project
Picturing Diagnosis (workshop with medical students)
Published on The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Picturing Diagnosis will call upon the student as detective, to listen to dramatic stories of patients with debilitating symptoms, their challenges with medical treatment, the vagaries of medical tests, and the distress of diagnostic errors. Unaware of the patients’ condition, they will utilise visual material such as clinical and anatomical imagery to help assist in the diagnosing process.
Upcoming
‘Picturing Diagnosis’ conference paper, A Narrative Future for Health Care, King’s Guy’s Hospital Campus, London, June 19 to 21, 2013
For more information about PROJECT ANATOME, click here.. and here!
TEDMEDLive Athens talk of Brooke Roberts
Brooke Roberts inspired us with her talk and her fascinating med-inspired fashion show at TEDMEDLive Athens 2013. Brooke Roberts, as a radiographer and fashion designer, connects the seemingly unconnected and is sending out a new message in fashion design.
In her work, our inner world, as observed under CT scans and X-rays, is transformed into an absolute muse.
Thank you so much Brooke for this magnificent show!
You can watch the talk of Brooke Roberts at TEDMEDLive Athens, here:
Brooke Roberts at TEDMEDLive Athens.. Backstage!
Exclusive photos from Minas Minatsis.
http://eternal-optimist.com/section/fashion/fashion-news/brooke-roberts-tedmed-athens-backstage
Brooke Roberts in TEDMEDLive Athens
Brooke Roberts as a TEDMEDLive Athens speaker will inspire the audience revealing the linkage between medicine and fashion design. Her talk subject will be:
“How do Radiography and Knitwear Design mix?”
Brooke Roberts, is an award-winning Knitwear designer and Diagnostic Radiographer. Her fashion label, Brooke Roberts, creates digital knitwear from medical scans and x-rays, utilizing specialist programming technology.
She has 14 years Radiography experience in the National Health Service (NHS) in London, and has seven years experience in the luxury fashion knitwear sector, working in factories across Europe. Brooke has collaborated with The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, where her work is currently exhibited.
MEDinART presented at TEDMEDLive Athens 2013
MEDinART is a TEDMED Live Athens 2013 initiative.
ΤEDMED is a meeting place for innovative leaders from various fields sharing a common passion:creating a better future in health and medicine. It is an overwhelming experience that can not be described in words, but has to be experienced live.
For the first time in Greece the organisation of TEDMED Live Athens 2013 takes place on Sunday, 21st April 2013, at the Main Stage of Onassis Cultural Centre.
With the motto «Health Forward» and allied with medicine for a better quality of life, TEDMED Live Athens 2013 is looking forward to the challenges of the future and promises to be a memorable event that will include: Excellent speakers. Thinking participants. Brilliant ideas.
TEDMEDLive Athens is presented for the first time in Greece by SciCo.
SciCo is a Non Profit Organisation whose aim is to communicate scientific issues to the public via innovative and entertaining means. SciCo was founded with the support of the British Council in 2008 and it consist of scientists, academics, educators, artists and people with an interest in everyday science. SciCo operates as a social enterprise, undertaking corporate social responsibility initiatives for multinational companies.
