Louise Whiteley

It’s been an interesting week for ‘Heirloom‘ – the artwork we’re currently exhibiting that grows cell portraits of the artist’s daughters in bioreactor tanks, and then preserves them for display. The cells have grown so successfully that last week the tubes became blocked, causing increased pressure and a leak. Then on Monday we discovered a […]

On Sunday July 3rd at 7pm, Medical Museion will be hosting a tour through the Scandinavian history of neuroscience, organised by the FENS History of Neuroscience Committee as part of the FENS 2016 conference. Speakers include Albert Gjedde, Hans Hultborn and Troels Kardel (University of Copenhagen); Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Lorenzo Lorusso (Chiari), and Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford). The talks […]

Do you have an excellent science degree from outside Denmark, but want to move into a research career in science communication studies, medical humanities, or museology?  Would you be keen to deepen your understanding of bioscience by studying first year courses and working alongside 15 other students who will do their PhD projects in metabolic, stem cell, protein, or biosustainability […]

We’ve been delighted by the response to our call for collaborators on Mind the Gut, thanks to all who applied! Please excuse us if we haven’t acknowledged receipt of your application yet, we’ll be in touch in the next few days, and if you’ve let us know about technical issues preventing you meeting the deadline we will […]

  Mind the Gut kurator Louise Whiteley deltog den 23. august 2015 i symposiet “Considering Exhibitions”, om tværfaglighed i udstillinger. Præsentationen af Louise Whiteley løftede sløret for nogle af de første idéer og visioner for udstillingen. Mind the Gut vil invitere kunstnere, kuratorer og forskere til at deltage i udarbejdelsen af udstilling. Formålet med udstillingen […]

On Thursday 22nd October at 12.30, artist Gina Czarnecki will present an informal lunch seminar at Medical Museion. All are welcome, but please register with Louise Whiteley (lowh@sund.ku.dk). Medical Museion’s new exhibition The Body Collected explores the collection and preservation of the human body for medical research. Specimens from the museum’s historical collections are on display alongside materials […]

On May 28th 2014, artist-scientist François-Joseph Lapointe set out with a team of assistants to conduct a unique performance/experiment. He shook hands with over 1000 people at the University of Copenhagen’s Panum Institute. Every 50 handshakes, the microbes on his palm were sampled, and the data is being processed to reveal how his hand microbiome […]

As part of her Velux professorship in Copenhagen in September and October 2014, Professor Annemarie Mol will be offering a series of master classes on ‘Material semiotic explorations’ in conjunction with the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund – CSS). Below is information on the master classes and how […]

Visions of mimicking, synthesising, or designing life forms have an ancient pedigree, bouncing back and forth between the occult, the philosophical, and the scientific. Artists working with the tools of science and technology have also played a key role in shaping and interrogating imaginations of creation – and in revealing the way that tools shape the […]

Vi leder efter studerende, der vil være med til et unikt kunst-videnskab performance-eksperiment d. 28. maj og en forberedende workshop d.20. maj. Ny forskning har vist, at der i voksne mennesker er ti gange så mange celler fra mikroorganismer som bakterier som der er fra vores egne celler. Vi er befolket af bakterier, som påvirker […]