Book ID: CBB935991554

Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology (2021)

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Casini, Silvia (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

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' body work and embodied imagination. She presents an in-depth ethnographic study of MRI development at the University of Aberdeen'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.

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Authors & Contributors
Kranke, Nina
Haën, C. de
Mintz, André
Siibak, Andra
Włodzimierz Gogołek
Lukyanova, Olga
Concepts
Data analysis
Data collection; methods
Visualization
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Big data
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Ecuador
Norway
Denmark
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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