[spectre] Gabriele Leidloff / Kolloquium University of Freiburg [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

> From: QuentPr2005 at aol.com
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>  *** Invitation to the colloquy on 19 December 2005 at 14.00 c.t. in 
> the Bernsteinsaal, Universitaet Freiburg PORTRAITS WITH IMAGE 
> GENERATING TECHNIQUES. IMAGE GENERATING TECHNIQUES AND WHAT THEY DO 
> NOT GENERATE. Presentation of portraits, image and film sequences from 
> the artistic works of Gabriele Leidloff Discussion of the works and 
> the above subject-matter with Prof. Dr. Ad Aertsen (Biology, Freiburg) 
> Prof. Dr. Juergen Hennig (Radiology, Freiburg) Gabriele Leidloff 
> (Artist, Berlin) Prof. Dr. Angeli Janhsen (Art History, Freiburg) HD 
> Dr. Sigrid Schmitz (Biologist, Institute for Information and Society, 
> IIG and Competency Forum Gender Research in Informatics and the 
> Natural Sciences GIN, Freiburg) Prof. Dr. Cornelius Weiller 
> (Neurology, Freiburg) Moderation: Prof. Dr. Britta Schinzel (Computer 
> Scientist, IIG und GIN Freiburg) Gabriele Leidloff works in the media 
> of video, film, photography and image generating techniques, such as 
> radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetoencephalography, 
> and eye-tracking. By manipulating the scientific methods of imaging, 
> she challenges our habits of visual perception. She conceptualized and 
> launched the project l o g - i n / l o c k e d o u t - A Forum of Art 
> and Neuroscience - http://www.locked-in.com. Her installations have 
> been exhibited in galleries, museums and universities in Europe and 
> the United States. Considering art exhibition as an example, the 
> scientific discussion will consider, for example, the definition of a 
> border between science and art, the qualitative characteristics of 
> medicine/technical images, or the relationship between images and 
> produced images.
>
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