Giving bodies back to data : image-makers, bricolage, and reinvention in magnetic resonance technology / Silvia Casini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casini, Silvia, 1977- author.

Series:

Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)

Leonardo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magnetic resonance imaging--History.

Magnetic resonance imaging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Giving Bodies Back to Data focuses on the entanglement between the history and practice of data visualization across disciplines and cultures, focusing on the invention of MRI"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Visualizing the Body in the Digital Age: A Brief Historical and Conceptual Background

Book Structure

1. Center-Periphery in Data Visualization: Concepts and Methods

The Relational View of Data

Epistemic Cultures and Their Trading Zone

Reorienting the Center-Periphery in MRI Innovation

A Stereoscopic Vision of Art and Science

I. Opening the Black Box

2. Histories and Practices in MRI Early Development

Encountering MRI

Visualizing Data in MRI: How the Journey Starts

Mark I as a Boundary Object

The Drive Toward the Patient in the Aberdonian Development of MRI

Opening Up the Black Box of Data Visualization in Biomedical Imaging

Scaling Up: From the Hand-Painted Image of a Dead Mouse to a Full-Body MRI Scan

3. Inside the Laboratory: From Signal to Coils, from Images to Bodies

That Obscure Object of Desire

MRI Development and Reinvention: Two Poles of One Experimental Trajectory

Fast Field-Cycling: Reinventing MRI

From Signal to Coil

Understanding Quality in Biomedical Data Visualization

4. Visualizing Uncertainty in MRI Reinvention

A Leap in Scale: From the Transparent, Molar Body to the Potential, Molecular One

Data Visualization and Uncertainty: What Are We Looking At with FFC-MRI?

The Eclipse of the Real

Biomarkers and the Uncertainty of Interpretation

Chapter Final Remarks

Intermezzo. Lives in the Grid

From Data to Image: The Grid in Biomedical Imaging

The Cartesian Grid: From Modern Art to Predictive Modeling

II. Art-Science Collaboration

5. Challenging the Neurorealism Fallacy through the Arts

Visualizing and Sonifying the Living Brain

The Neurorealism Fallacy and Its Visual Incarnation

Challenging the Neurorealism Fallacy through the Arts.

Body-Brain Systems: From Second-Order Cybernetics to Bio Art

Bio Art and Body-Brain Systems

6. Archives and Laboratory Ethnography: Giving Bodies Back to Data

Is This a Man?

A Cross-Disciplinary Project

Immobile Choreography: From the Idea to the Exhibition

From Where Do We See? The Role of the Archive in a Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

7. Bodily Sociotechnical Imaginaries in the Age of Operational Images

The Age of Operational Images

A Poetics of Private/Public Bodies and Health Spaces

Living with Demons-A Dialogue from the Future Past

Book Concluding Remarks

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Intermezzo

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Bibliography

Index

Color Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36616-9

0-262-36220-1

9780262366168

OCLC:

1256665453