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Ellen Sandor, Keith Miller, Janine Fron, Jack Ludden, (art)n
with Jim Strommer, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
PET Study 2 (Lung Cancer): Man Ray/Picabia Imitating Balzac
PHS Cologram composed of Duratrans, Kodalith film, Plexiglas
40 x 30 inches
2003
Courtesy of the International Center of Photography, New York
© 2004 Ellen Sandor and (art)n
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(art)n
(art)n is a group of artists who have been collaborating with scientists since 1983 to create works that merge art and science. The virtual sculpture included in this exhibition, PET Study 2 (Lung Cancer): Man Ray/Picabia Imitating Balzac, is modeled on a photograph of painter Francis Picabia taken by Man Ray. In the original photograph, Picabia is believed to be mimicking the posture of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, Monument to Balzac (1897-98).
The layers of this piece include a PET scan of lung cancer made at UCLA’s School of Medicine embedded into a digitized, three-dimensional model of the lungs. After mapping this onto the virtual sculpture, the image was then rendered as sixty-four separate images, each offering a slightly different perspective. When viewed through a backlit barrier screen, the assembled images are perceived by the viewer to exist in three dimensions.
Similarity exists between the way that (art)n builds up the multiple layers of the virtual sculpture and the way that contemporary medical scanning technologies deconstruct the body in a series of planes.
View (art)n’s website
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