Biomedicine in museums

In a post from 6 December I marvelled at the fact that there were about 22,4 million blogs registered by the Technorati search machine. Today, two months later, there are 27,1 million blogs, i.e., an increase of more than 75.000 blogs every day! Read more here.
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We’ve just missed the NEUROfest in New York

where some 100 artists in 70 events over 3 weeks presented performances inspired by various neurological conditions. Ended last weekend, unfortunately …

SUTURE: ARTWORK WITHOUT ANAESTHETIC, 14 January – 31 March 2006, Old Operating Theatre Museum

SUTURE is a two part exhibition of works, made in response to the The Old Operating Theatre Museum’s collection of medical artifacts. Following the relocation of the Museum from the Garret to the Crypt of St Thomas’ Church, SUTURE PART 2 presents new works by Richard Squires and Phillip Warnell.
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The Museums and Galleries History Group is pleased to announce the first issue of its biannual newsletter is now online at the MGHG website, www.mghg.org, containing news of projects, publications, research and events in the field of museum and gallery history.
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SymbioticA at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, is an evolving place of artistic investigation that is accessible to people throughout Western Australia and beyond, offering artists-in-residence cutting edge technology and the ability to realise projects that involve scientific/biological experiments. See http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au

SymbioticA Tissue Engineering and Art Workshop prepared by Oron Catts of SymbioticA – The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, Laboratories of the Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona.

Tissue culture and tissue engineering represent a new area for artistic engagement. These branches of biomedical research have a major influence on perceptions of body, self and medical thinking. Tissue engineering enable researchers to grow three dimensional living tissues constructs of varying sizes, shapes and tissue types.

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Arte Contemporáneo arranges the following seminars on biomedicine / biotechnology and art in Madrid, 9 – 13 February 2006:
— “The Era of Posthuman Engineering” (presentation vs. participants),
— “From Body Art to the Transgenic Body” (participants vs. presentation) ,
— “The Posthuman Body: Hybridization Between Flesh and Prosthesis” (presentation vs. participants),
— “Biotechnology: the Theoreticians and the Artists” (presentation vs. participants),
— “Biotechnological Thinking” (presentation vs. participants), and
— “A Mutating Corporality” (presentation vs. participants).
For further information, see Arte Contemporáneo’s website.

Peter Morris har lige sendt følgende overblik over Louise Thorn’s PhD-project ved Science Museum/Imperial College — som forberedelse til Museion-seminaret tirsdag den 31. januar. Read More

The Nobel Museum in Stockholm opens a new exhibition, ‘Läkekonst blir vetenskap’ (‘Medicine from art to science’), Tuesday 28 March 2006. It’s not on their website yet, but soon …

Here’s the abstract and a link to the full paper “Who’s afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?” from the UMAC conference in Uppsala, September 2005.
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