Roberta Buiani

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I am a cultural theorist and a media art practitioner.
My work examines the encounters between technoscience, politics and creativity in theory and practice.

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Transition in Progress: Making Space for Place http://www.space-for-place.ca/
ArtSci Salon http://artscisalon.wordpress.com/
Activism Beyond the Interface: The Sandbox project http://www.sandbox-prj.org/
Subtle Technologies Festival http://subtletechnologies.com
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James Elkins

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

B. Harun Küçük

University of Pennsylvania

Javier Díaz Noci

Pompeu Fabra University

Mark Deuze

University of Amsterdam

Perdita Phillips

Independent Researcher

Pau Alsina

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

danah boyd

Microsoft Research

Stephen Muecke

University of Notre Dame (Australia)

Simon O'Sullivan

Goldsmiths, University of London

Kim Akass

Rowan University

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Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology

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Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and tech... more Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In this book, Silvia Casini reveals the affective relations and materiality that turn data into image—and in so doing, gives bodies back to data. Opening the black box of MRI technology, Casini examines the bodily, situated aspects of visualization practices around the development of this technology. Reframing existing narratives of biomedical innovation, she emphasizes the important but often overlooked roles played by aesthetics, affectivity, and craft practice in medical visualization. Combining history, theory, laboratory ethnography, archival research, and collaborative art–science, Casini retrieves the multiple presences and agencies of bodies in data visualization, mapping the traces of scientists&amp;amp;#39; body work and embodied imagination. She presents an in-depth ethnographic study of MRI development at the University of Aberdeen&amp;amp;#39;s biomedical physics laboratory, from the construction of the first whole-body scanner for clinical purposes through the evolution of the FFC-MRI. Going beyond her original focus on MRI, she analyzes a selection of neuroscience- or biomedicine-inspired interventions by artists in media ranging from sculpture to virtual reality. Finally, she presents a methodology for designing and carrying out small-scale art–science projects, describing a collaboration that she herself arranged, highlighting the relational and aesthetic-laden character of data that are the product of craftsmanship and affective labor at the laboratory bench.

The Indeterminacy of Viruses

Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary titled “Webwarriors ” for the series Doc Zone. As the title... more Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary titled “Webwarriors ” for the series Doc Zone. As the title implies, the documentary surveyed the latest wars against computer viruses and cyber-threats. According to this documentary, organized crime and international espionage have reached new heights. Increasingly complex computer viruses are now able to take control of the machines of the unaware users and turn them into weapons at the service of money thirsty cybercrooks; sophisticated spyware could already be breaking into top-secret databases, searching for sensitive information. All these new cyber-threats have transformed the Internet into an increasingly dangerous place, only waiting for the ultimate information accident to happen.

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