Science in the Arts seminar at Medical Museion on 9 April, 1-2 pm
On 9 April 9, the international art laboratory Hotel Pro Forma organizes a seminar discussing the connections between science and artistic process in collaboration with Medical Musieon, the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen, and the research project Robot Culture and Aesthetics (University of Copenhagen).
The point of departure for the discussion is the Japanese visual artist and performer Ayaka Okutsu’s current art installation Meating Ghost that combines art and scientific research. Ayaka Okutsu is artist-in-residence with Hotel Pro Forma from January to April 2014. See more below.
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Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 25, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
It’s #MuseumWeek next week!
Next week is #MuseumWeek on Twitter. We’ll be joining hundreds of museums around Europe and the rest of the world in taking over Twitter using a new museum-related hashtag everyday. Here’s what to expect from us at MM:
We’ll kick off the week on Monday by dropping in on pretty much every staff member of the museum and see what they’re up to. All gory details will be shared on #DayInTheLife. This is your chance to get acquainted with our staff.
On Tuesday you get to be a #MuseumMastermind. We’ll have quizzes and puzzles for you to wrap you mind around. And who knows, there might be prizes!
Joi...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 20, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Daniel Noesgaard Tags: Twitter Source Type: blogs
Im/materiality and seminar at Sorø Kunstmuseum
On April 5th, I will take part in an exciting one-day seminar at Sorø Kunstmuseum. The occasion for the seminar is the third exhibition in a three-part series on materiality curated by Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen. The series is intellectually spurred by new materialism in philosophy, such as speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, and features artworks that respond to these thoughts from artists such as Troels Sandegård and Lea Porsager. If you read Danish, there is a review of the exhibition here and an in-depth review of the series here. Here is a description of the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue in ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 20, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: art and biomed seminars Source Type: blogs
Visitor typologies and flip experiences
In the recent issue of Curator there is an interesting and empirically well-founded paper on visitor experience of exhibitions, entitled IPOP: A Theory of Experience Preference. It lays out a typology called IPOP of what draws people to exhibitions – Ideas, People, Objects and Physical. The authors claim that
an individual’s relative attraction to the four IPOP dimensions influences 1) what that individual pays attention to, 2) what s/he does, and 3) how that person responds.
One of the interesting things the authors point out is that people often rate their experiences the highest when they have what is called a ‘fl...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 19, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: material studies museum studies Source Type: blogs
Francois-Joseph Lapointe visiting artist at Museion
We are (very!) happy to announce that Canadian researcher/artist Francois-Joseph Lapointe will be in residence at the Museion and the CBMR Section for Science Communication for three weeks during May and one week during October. Francois-Joseph is head of the laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at Université de Montréal and full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He has more than 100 scientific publications in the areas of metagenomics, bioinformatics and population genetics. Alongside his scientific work, he also completed a PhD in dance in 2012 with a thesis entitled ‘Choreogenetics, ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 17, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
Touching The Tactile — workshop at Medical Museion, 10-11 April, 2014
Next month, Jan Eric Olsén is co-organizing a workshop titled “Touching The Tactile” here at Medical Museion.
The aim of the workshop is “to approach the sense of touch via a series of hands-on investigations and discussions that will take place within the context of art and museum practices”.
By focusing on touch, the workshop draws attention to features that are often overlooked in the fabric of art exhibits and museum displays. More particularly, the workshop will unfurl the experience and knowledge that comes with touch and the things that we touch. These are experiences that span from intimat...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 4, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: seminars senses Source Type: blogs
Online course in Public Health Emergency Risk Communication
In conclusion, it’s definitely a course worth spending 2,5 hours on. As said it is not very theoretical or academic oriented, but it has great references if one feels like digging into more of that, and is relevant for students as well as public health professionals proned to get involved in public health emergencies in one way or the other. You get a nice little diploma when passing the final assessment test and can, if relevant also apply for official credits for the course. (Source: Biomedicine on Display)
Source: Biomedicine on Display - February 7, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication emergency risk communication Northwest Center for Public Health Practice online course public health emergencies public health professionals Public Health Risk Communication Social media university of wa Source Type: blogs
Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) in Switzerland
As member of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) I receive a monthly newsletter with relevant Public Health news from the region. I have previously criticized EUPHA for their lack of focus on public health communication (see blog post “European Public Health Association and the missing communication category”). I maintain my critic, but must also congratulate them when public health communication does sneak its way into for example their newsletter.
Thus, in the January 2014 newsletter under Upcoming Courses and Conferences attention is given to the Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - February 2, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication COMET Communicating Risk and Uncertainty conference Conference on Communication Conference on Communication Medicine and Ethics doctor-patient communication EUPHA European Public Health Association hea Source Type: blogs
Collecting the online culture of medicine – on Tumblr
I have started a small experiment on Tumblr. To collect the online culture of Medicine.
Using the simple, but amazing IFTTT (it really does put the internet to work for you!) I’ve set up a number of automated recipes that collect content from a number of sources: Instagram, Youtube, Flickr, and Twitter. The original idea for which I was inspired by the Horniman was to include photos taken by visitors at our museum. But then I thought why not widen the scope. So I decided to look at how people portray medicine in the world of social media.
While setting up the recipes I started looking into what hashtags to follow on ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 24, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Daniel Noesgaard Tags: social web media flickr @en ifttt instagram Social media tumblr Twitter Source Type: blogs
#SM4PH – A Twitter chat on social media & public health
I actually thought I had blogged about it before, but a search through my posts shows me that the #sm4ph Twitter chat has been neglected. So hereby making up for that.
#sm4ph is a Twitter hashtag dedicated to exploring aspects of social media use and how it affects public health, including the academic field of Public Health and the public’s health at large. Until recently it was a monthly chat (although not really active in the second half of 2013) but since January 2014 it has been upgraded to a weekly chat. It is moderated by Jim Garrow, who is director of Digital Public Health in the Department of Public Health in...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 21, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication #sm4ph chat Digital Public Health discussion Jim Garrow Social media Twitter www.phsocmed.wordpress.com Source Type: blogs
Life, in Theory: 31st January deadline for SLSAeu 2014 conference
In 2012, Adam Bencard and I attended the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The conference was full of energy, curiousity-driven conversation, a perhaps unsurprising amount of great vegetarian food given all the animal studies scholars, and interdisciplinary in the manner of a delicious banquet rather than a fragmented and depleted vending machine.
Whilst in Milwaukee, I was also introduced to the European chapter of SLSA, and I’m now sitting on the board and very much looking forward to the 8th SLSAeu conference in Turin, Italy this June. The conference theme is ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 15, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: conferences Source Type: blogs
A metabolic christmas carol
A good friend of mine (thanks Zacha!) alerted me to this wonderful and very metabolically relevant passage from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol:
“You don’t believe in me,” observed the Ghost.
“I don’t,” said Scrooge.
“What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?”
“I don’t know,” said Scrooge.
“Why do you doubt your senses?”
“Because,” said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - December 13, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
Teaching Social media & science communication again
Discussion, points I tried to make and those that I thought of later
As I was ‘warned’ the students were a bunch of people with questions so the presentation of was interrupted by questions, which is great but of course also means that some questions would have been easier to answer later and makes keeping time a slippery task. Coming home after teaching I scribbled down some thoughts. Some especially targeted those students who are by definition skeptical and already think that they spend way too many hours in front of a computer screen. In bullet point format I thought I’d share some of these reflection...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - November 9, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: aesthetics public health science communication blog blogging Facebook I Fucking love Science Informations medieskole Microbiology Twitter Journal Club presentation research research communication researcher Rosie Redfield Rrresea Source Type: blogs
People are objects, too
On of the (many) issues when trying to think about object agency (as I’m trying to do at the moment – read more here, here and also here and here) is that it necessitates thinking about what consciousness and intentionality are and that leads down a rabbit hole of philosophical debates spanning decades, multiple traditions and an endless number of publications. I get dizzy spells and vertigo just thinking about it.
Speaking of rabbits, this NY Times piece entitled ‘Dogs are People, Too’ popped up on my fb feed. Neuroscience determines that dogs have feelings of sorts, and the immediate move is to say ‘wel...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 8, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: Do things act? material studies Source Type: blogs
Future of Art Science Collaborations workshop this week in Leiden, #fasc13
After a hectic few days preparation – from surveying artists who’ve worked at Medical Museion to cutting out 150 playing card sized images of art-science collaborations – I’m very much looking forward to the kick-off of The Future of Art Science Collaborations workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden tomorrow.
You can read a workshop description here, and we’ll be using the hashtag #fasc13 (after the usual surreal trawl around the menagerie of possible acronyms on twitter, this one appears to be a fairly blank slate…). I’m organizing sessions on Monday so may be a little scarce, b...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: art and biomed art and science conferences science communication studies Source Type: blogs
