Flesh and Voxel: Making Sense of Medical Images | STEM TO STEAM

TALK AND DEMO: STEAM IMAGING: FRAUNHOFER MEVIS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY
BIANKA HOFMANN, SABRINA HAASE

How can we better use the potential of connecting scientific expertise and artistic creativity to mould the future? In the field of medical technology, we are accustomed to working across disciplines. But with our pilot artist-in-residence project called STEAM Imaging, we departed from the scientific disciplines beyond knowledge silos and integrated not only an artistic approach but also school students. We see involving the young generation as a chance for transdisciplinarity.

At Fraunhofer MEVIS, we have developed several communication concepts to encourage people to get involved in STEM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The aim is to foster engagement with and ownership of future technology. In the talk we will exhibit the steps of our journey from STEM to STEAM, integrating the ART and give a demo of Inside Insight, an interactive web tool for a practical introduction into creative mathematics, physics, and computer science, with a focus on enhancing medical data artistically.

WORKSHOP:
FROM CLINICAL APPLICATION TO ARTISTIC EXPLORATION
SABRINA HAASE, ALEXANDER KÖHN

In this workshop, you get an introduction to MeVisLab, a powerful rapid development & prototyping platform for medical image processing. From algorithms to applications: Use MeVisLab to learn about basic medical image processing algorithms and create a sample application. Use prepared networks to explore more complex scenarios and visualization techniques. Learn how to use it as an artistic tool.

RSVP to artscicenter@gmail.com

LINKS:
Download MeVisLab:
https://www.mevislab.de/download (You can select the OS, for windows you can select any Visual Studio version, which is not relevant for us, since we won’t develop C++ modules.)

More about the artist residency STEAM Imaging which we realized in cooperation with Ars Electronica and the Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen, in:
The Practice of Art & Science, The European Digital Art and Science Network, Hatje Cantz 2017, Ed. Ars Electronica Center Linz, page 50 – 55.
http://archive.aec.at/media/archive/2017/228790/File_06390_AEC_RES_2017.pdf

SCIART MAGAZINE’s Special Topics August 2017 STEAM: STEAM Imaging: A Pupils’ Workshop Experiment in Computer Science, Physics, and Sound Art
http://www.sciartmagazine.com/steam-imaging-a-pupilsrsquo-workshop-exper

The Evaluation Summary, STEAM Imaging: Art Meets Medical Research, by Claudia Schnugg, 2017:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication318572754_STEAM_Imaging_Art_Meet

More about the artistic outcome of our residency STEAM Imaging: Whose Scalpel – An artist’s exploration of AI in heart surgery
https://babyforest.co/yen

More about our science communication projects:
https://www.mevis.fraunhofer.de/en/press-and-scicom/science-communication