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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us […]

The on-line Journal of Visualized Experiments (mentioned in an earlier post on this blog), was the first web-based service dedicated to visual demonstrations of experimental methods and protocols. It has been followed by others, for example, LabAction. Both were started by young lab people with little financial backing and both (especially LabAction) have a nice YouTube feel about them. […]

The Arts & Genomics Centre at Leiden University is announcing three-month bioartist-in-residence positions as part of a larger research programme called ‘Imagining Genomics: Introducing Visuality in the Genomics Debate’ which focusus on “the role of visual art in moral debates on genomics”. The results of the bioart-in-residence projects are planned to be displayed in the Dutch National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis. The […]

I have to confess (blushingly) that I find this short, and very PIC, Onion News Network news item about the 100 year old neurosurgeon Carl Wainwright quite funny. Probably because it (somehow obliquely) reminds me of this summer’s much belated but nevertheless extraordinary reading experience — Ian McEwan’s novel Saturday, in which the major protagonist is a perfect neurosurgeon in his prime. It […]

Friday 17 August, Danish Television Channel 2 (DR2) program Deadline aired an eight minutes interview with sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard on occasion of the forthcoming premiere of his new sound work LABYRINTHITIS, commissioned by Medical Museion. See the interview here. Read more about the performance on Sunday 2 September in an earlier blog post here.

In connection with the conference ‘Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body’ held Monday 3 September, Medical Museion has commissioned sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard to create a new work. Jacob Kirkegaard has turned his listening ear inwards – to his own ear. By using specially developed listening equipment, he has captured the microactivity which the hair cells of the ear send […]

Just want to remind you all that we are arranging the public conference “Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body” here in Copenhagen on Monday 3 September, 10 am – 5 pm. Confirmed speakers include Ken Arnold, Wellcome Collection, London James Elkins, The Art Institute of Chicago Ben Fry, MIT Media Lab Wolfgang Knapp, Universität der Künste, Berlin Steve Kurtz, SUNY-Buffalo […]

Lynn Morgan er professor ved Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. Hendes forskning inkluderer social studies of science, antropologiske studier i livets begyndelser og afslutninger, og udviklingens politiske økonomi (se også http://www.phdpubhealth.dk/Seminarserier/stf06/). Lynn besøgte Museion i efteråret 2006 med oplægget “Embryo in/formation: the construction of embryo subjectivity […]

I love to discover new professional fields and knowledge-practices that I’ve never heard of before. Today Street Anatomy opened up the virtual door to one of them, viz., that of biocommunication and biovisualisation (formerly medical illustration). I believe what these professionals do is of great significance for what we are trying to achieve in medical museums, including this humble institution, especially exhibitionwise. Take for example […]

One of our new blog siblings is Street Anatomy: Medicine + Art + Design, created in December 2006 by Vanessa Ruiz,   a graduate student in the Biomedical Visualization programme at the University of Illinois (Chicago) — this is the largest medical illustration program in the US, with their own Virtual Reality in Medicine lab. A kind of ‘medicine on display’ programme. […]

Just found a short, but updated and quite useful bibliography of cellular and molecular imaging books and articles from a history of science and STS perspective, compiled by Maura C. Flannery, a St. John’s University professor, who’s major research interest is the visual aspects of biology and the aesthetics of science. Even better, Maura also has a page with […]

Medical blogs vary enormously with respect to quality, updating frequency, and aimed audience. Some are useful and interesting for medical museum curators. I believe Medgadget is one of them. Founded in December 2004 (same month as this humble blog was born) by San Francisco anesthesiologist Michael Ostrovsky, it was announced as “an independent on-line journal covering the latest medical gadgets and technologies, medical science, and […]