Hi Suzy, This looks like a fantastic event which I would definitely attend had I not an unavoidable time conflict. Great to know about the project though and I will follow the other resources.
Yesterday I attended a presentation offered by Columbia University medical school in which Peter Sterling presented on his book What is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design. Seeing how all the many various elements and processes of the human organism (and our evolutionary relations) make up the grand scheme is central to his ideas of health and shared some origins with the "connectome" project of mapping the brain. I know that Wellcome is supporting great work in this realm, and encourages collaborative approaches which are of such great importance to innovation and new insight as well as participation and relevance. Your mention of the Renaissance is intriguing as I do believe that Leonardo had a speculative eye toward something like the future we inhabit, where science and art have made enormous strides but still face tremendous challenges of a rather inevitable and foreseeable sort. In this sense I believe that the Mona Lisa is something like an atlas, with Leonardo's detailed anatomical studies "hidden" as it were in the notebooks but embedded in the painting, structured moreover on a vision of the relationship we have to technology. He foresaw, I think, a technocentric hazards of our future and wanted to help protect the human-centered and nature-valuing potentials we still are trying to protect and balance with the ongoing expansion of technology. My speculation is that the bridge in the Mona Lisa represents the flow of the history of technology, the garment its present, and the sitter direct human experience and agency in present time. The three realms -- nature, humanity, and art -- each have their own "atlas" but are also integrated with each other by dynamic flows. The key point of contact of all three is the slight synapse where the sitter's right index finger barely alights on the curving fabric of the left sleeve, indicating our fragile but resilient power of agency in shaping the way forward. Your project seems to be a wonderful example of science and art pooling their resources to imagine a positive future that values the human. Very best regards, Max ________________________________ From: NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on behalf of Suzy O'Hara via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 8:33 AM To: netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> Cc: Suzy O'Hara <ohara.s...@gmail.com> Subject: [NetBehaviour] (no subject) Dear all, I am delighted to share some information about our upcoming event, Human Cell Atlas ArtSci Salon II The Human Cell Atlas and Technologies of Seeing on 2 December 2020 @ 4 - 5.30pm GMT. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/128287801267> The HCA: ArtSci Salon II welcomes the creative team behind a newly commissioned artist film that explores theHuman Cell Atlas<https://www.humancellatlas.org/>. The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is a pioneering, multidisciplinary global research project that aims to map the function of all 37 trillion cells in the human body, paving the way for new understanding and treatment of disease. This international consortium involves over 1,000 researchers from over 50 countries. Since the Renaissance, artists and scientists have mapped our bodies in all of its knowable and unknowable complexity, the process of categorizing, classifying and naming fragments undertaken to understand the elusive whole. The Human Cell Atlas aims to create an open-access atlas of knowledge, mapping how all body systems are connected, impacting almost every aspect of biology and medicine in the future. Stewart/ Teichmann’s artist film will explore themes of language, the invisible, the unknown, and imagination in relation to the Human Cell Atlas, looking at the interconnected histories of technologies of seeing, scientific discovery and our relationship to our own bodies. The Story of the Human Cell Atlas is part of One Cell at a Time Bringing Together Communities, Patients and Researchers to Build The Human Cell Atlas<https://www.humancellatlas.org/wellcome-engagement/>, funded by Wellcome Trust. Situated at the nexus of art and science, the One cell at a time public engagement project provides a powerful opportunity for artists to explore the science of HCA critically and materially in collaboration with a community of biologists, clinicians, technologists, physicists, computational scientists, software engineers, and mathematicians and diverse communities across the UK. Participants: Host: Suzy O’Hara, Human Cell Atlas (UK) Public Engagement: One cell at a time<https://www.humancellatlas.org/wellcome-engagement/> Project Curator Speakers/Panelists: Boris Jardine<https://www.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/fellows-associates/jardine-boris>: A History of the Scientific Atlas Boris Jardine's research deals with the history of the instruments and material culture of science. His current research project 'The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science, 1865–1936' tells the story of the 'New Museums Site' in the centre of Cambridge, focusing on the way in which collections were amassed and then dispersed in the various museums that once occupied the site. Jardine is also completing a book project with the working title The Plans for Utopia: Modernism and the Sciences in Interwar Britain. This is the culmination of his PhD research into the social survey movement Mass-Observation, and the links between socialist scientists and artists in the 1930s. Jardine was previously Curator of History of Science at the Science Museum (London), and Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the Cambridge University Library (2014/15). https://www.borisjardine.com/ Christopher Stewart<http://www.dialecturnal.com/>: The Apparatus of Looking Christopher Stewart's practice explores themes of surveillance, the invisible, secrecy and power. Stewart's work has been exhibited widely including at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art in Norwich, The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, Open Eye in Liverpool and Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland, with work held in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Martin Z. Margulies collection, Miami. Writing and curatorial research projects are also central to Christopher's practice. He completed an MA at the Royal College of Art and a PhD in the Faculty of Art & Design at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. http://www.dialecturnal.com/ Esther Teichmann<http://www.estherteichmann.com/>: Feeling the Invisible Esther Teichmann's practice looks at the relationships between the maternal, loss, desire and the imaginary, working across still and moving image installation. Recent solo museum shows include Heavy the Sea, Transformer Station, Cleveland and Mondschwimmen, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim. Collaborations include Phantasie Fotostudio II with Monster Chetwynd at John Hansard Gallery, and the co-curation and editing of the exhibition and book, Staging Disorder, with artist Christopher Stewart. Teichmann received an MA (2005) and PhD (2011) in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art (RCA) and is Head of Programme of the Master of Research, and Coordinator for Critical and Historical Studies at the RCA.http://www.estherteichmann.com/ Sarah Teichmann<https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/teichmann-sarah/>: Human Cell Atlas Sarah Teichmann is co-founder and principal leader of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) international consortium. The International Human Cell Atlas initiative aims to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells to further understand health and disease. Sarah Teichmann is interested in global principles of protein interactions and gene expression. In particular, her research now focuses on genomics and immunity. From 2016, Sarah has been the Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Sarah is an EMBO member and fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and her work has been recognized by a number of prizes, including the Lister Prize, Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, Royal Society Crick Lecture and EMBO Gold Medal. About this series: Human Cell Atlas: ArtSci Salons is an online space that aims to bring artists together with scientists working on the Human Cell Atlas initiative through critical dialogue, cross-disciplinary exchange, networking and collaboration. Through a curated series of flexible and experimental online discussions and public conversations, we will welcome our ArtSci community, partners, collaborators, colleagues, friends and anyone else who would like to join us to share their thoughts and help shape a post-pandemic future in which scientists, artists and wider society can thrive. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. I look forward to seeing you there. Best Suzy SUZY O'HARA PROJECT MANAGER AND CURATOR HUMAN CELL ATLAS - PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WELLCOME GRANT TEL ++44 (0) 7891719319 EMAIL: s...@sanger.ac.uk<mailto:s...@sanger.ac.uk> https://www.humancellatlas.org/
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