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Preface |
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Art also plays a high-profile role as interface between science and the public(Ars Electronica 99)
We have leaped into the 21st century...the century of the brain and life sciences and the era of the genome. Every day the news follows the trends of neurology, human genome planning, organ transplants, reproductive medicine, cloning and regenerative medicine. We are being challenged by the ethical interface between the human race and scientific technique.
Television and the internet allows us many opportunities to see many modern wonders...medical images taken using state of the art technology such as MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and CT scans (Computerized Tomography), real and CG images on cells in reproductive treatments afforded by the remarkable progress in genetic engineering. Our changing sibility of the body has major influences on birth, old age, sickness and death, indeed on our outlook on life itself.
This exhibition will mainly feature artists working in art inspired by developments in medical and life science technology and in social expression using "medicine" as a metaphor.
Spanning the wide variety of medical science found in brain science, plastination anatomy, genetic engineering, organ transplants and terminal care through art, this exhibition is an experiment in reading (or listening to) the world "clinically" using "medicine as metaphor". |
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Jan.18 (Friday) - Mar.24 (Sunday), 2002 Gallery A, B, Lounge
Talk "Art, Medicine, Metaphor"