The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin
Flags of Our Fathers by Barry Bostwick
“Police in London are trying a new shock tactic in the war on drugs. Images showing the decline of addicts will be shown on posters, bar mats and flyers. This first image shows Roseanne Holland at the age of 29 before her heroin habit took hold.”
“Art images for the cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases are selected for communication effectiveness, audience appeal, artistic quality, stylistic continuity, and technical reproducibility. Art is drawn from many periods (ancient to contemporary) to ‘humanize’ and enhance the scientific content by creating order and harmony, showing chaos, revealing truth, raising consciousness, immortalizing, surprising, fantasizing, illustrating ideas, stimulating the intellect, and firing the emotions. … Emerging Infectious Diseases is not about art. The journal has a cover to protect the scientific content from the elements. But as a communication tool, art seems to work. Our readers enjoy the covers. We don’t know exactly why. But as Georges Braque once said, ‘There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.’”
The Frank Netter Award
“For the Vesalius Trust, developing and supporting research and education in visual communications means more than simply raising and dispersing funds. It also means raising the awareness of the health-care community about the value and impact of visual communications, and encouraging researchers and educators to effectively use visual communications.
The Frank Netter Award for Special Contributions to Medical Education annually recognizes the person or persons who have recently developed visually oriented educational materials with either proven or potential impact on the way health sciences are taught and/or practiced. The Award was established in 1990 to honor Dr. Netter’s lifetime contribution to medical education, which greatly aided the advancement of visual communications in the health sciences, and contributed immeasurably to the promotion of medical illustration as a profession.
Entrants have come from around the world, exemplifying excellence in the integrated use of visual communications and instructional technology in medical and health science education.
The application deadline for the 2004 Dr. Frank Netter Award is December 10, 2004.”
The 2005 HeSCA Media Festivals
“The Health and Science Communications Association is proud to announce the 31th annual HeSCA Media Festivals. The Festivals are an international forum for health sciences media. Our goal is to showcase and recognize those individuals and organizations whose works represent the very best in health sciences media production.
Productions entered in the competition are subjected to a demanding peer review using standardized judging criteria. A select number of these entries are presented prestigious awards at special ceremonies held in conjunction with the HeSCA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, June 4, 2005.
All productions are highlighted in the HeSCA Media Festivals Catalog, which has become a standard media reference for the health sciences. Selected entries may also be presented in the “Winners Festival” at the HeSCA Annual Meeting. The Catalog, including a list of winners, will be posted to the HeSCA website ( www.hesca.org) immediately following the Annual Meeting.
The HeSCA Media Festival Catalog offers access to your work to a concentrated group of health science communications professionals while providing a widely disseminated, permanent media reference.
Entries, Forms & Fees must be Received by January 31, 2005“
“Q: Why a comic strip?
A: It was the right medium for the story I wanted to tell. Comic strips meld words and pictures to convey an idea with more economy and grace than either could alone. I was inspired to pursue the idea when I accompanied Mom to chemotherapy one day and did a quick sketch of her napping during the several-hour session. That sketch became ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black’ and encouraged me to give “Mom’s Cancer” a try.”
[via metafilter]
“Posters highlighted on this page were included in ‘HIV/AIDS in Africa’ exhibit at Northwestern University Library. They represent a small sample of posters concerning HIV/AIDS in Africa that are part of the collection at the Herskovits Library.“
Just found out the other day that our department’s West Point, Pennsylvania office is looking to hire a graphic designer.
“Successful candidates will hold a degree in Graphic Design or related field and have at least 5 years prior work experience. Requirements include proficiency with industry standard graphic design software, such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word is also needed as well as understanding of scanning techniques and principles, specifically color correction and appropriate resolutions. Competency with specialized software such as Microsoft Excel and Access, Sigma Plot, ChemDraw or Macromedia Flash is a plus. Successful candidates must also be able to work within set deadlines with minimal supervision. Previous pharmaceutical experience is desired but not required.”
There’s no direct link to the job listing, but you can search for job number ADM001786 here.
Slated for August 25-29, 2005, registration for the 3rd World Congress of Medical and Scientific Imaging should be open soon:
“In keeping with our theme, ‘Explore: Discover the Possibilities’, the 2005 World Congress aims to inform delegates of the latest trends in medical and scientific imaging so that the potential of modern technologies can be fully realised. … The program will consist of 3 days of academic papers, a professional exhibition, and a unique opportunity to take part in a Great Barrier Reef expedition.”
See you there? (Oh who am I kidding? Like it would be possible to get the powers-that-be to shake loose the necessary funds.)
When gratuitous sex and violence won’t capture the eyeballs any more, it shouldn’t be surprising that gratuitous decomposition seems like the appropriate next step in the progression to some TV executive somewhere.
Britain’s Channel Four Recruits Rotting Corpse
(Thursday, November 04 03:00 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Which is more entertaining: watching paint dry or watching a human body decompose? Thanks to Channel 4, British audiences may soon get to decide for themselves. The tentatively titled documentary “Dust to Dust” will tackle the taboo of rotting human flesh and bring those images into British homes.
According to the Guardian newspaper, producers on the show are currently searching for a terminally ill patient whose family is willing to sign off on letting a national television audience watch him rot. After the patient’s death, the body will be placed in a private area of London’s Science Museum and a number of cameras and scientists will get to watch the body decompose.
[via boingboing]
“My current work plays on the sensuality and beauty which underlies sense and being itself. My work takes a literal look at the foundation of our physical existence. I create sculptures of proteins, the universal building blocks of life. … Creating organically shaped sculptures out of a large number of geometric pieces fascinates me, because the complexity of a living being is similarly made up of simple “inanimate” subunits. I want to follow science in its reductionist approach and present its isolated finds in an art context. Science needs to separate; it requires the scientist to detach himself from the observed object and separate the object into its parts in order to objectively analyze it. Art, on the other hand, requires the artist to become one with the object in order to transform it into an art object. Because of this, art has the unique power to heal what has been separated: The art object is an object that has been given life by the artist and the ability to live in the viewer. My protein sculptures offer an emotional experience of a world that is usually accessible only through our intellect.”
[via Btang Reblog]