British Academy-funded visiting fellow to join CoDE
CoDE is happy to welcome Dr Roberta Buiani from Toronto as a Visiting Fellow for the Autumn of 2010. Dr Buiani's project 'Marginalized: images of viruses and the culture of contagion' received funding from the British Academy Visiting Fellow programme.
The project focuses on iconic and stereotypical representations, as well as scientific visualisation of viruses in the sciences, popular culture and the arts. These visual expressions are often utilised as a spectacular and aesthetically attractive background supporting a negative scenario of fear and anxiety. In this project, she proposes an analysis of visuals that combines a cultural studies examination of the discourses converging in scientific visualisation and visual representation of viruses, as well as a study of the technological tools and scientific methods needed to concretely assemble such images.
Dr Buiani will be joining CoDE in August.
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The project focuses on iconic and stereotypical representations, as well as scientific visualisation of viruses in the sciences, popular culture and the arts. These visual expressions are often utilised as a spectacular and aesthetically attractive background supporting a negative scenario of fear and anxiety. In this project, she proposes an analysis of visuals that combines a cultural studies examination of the discourses converging in scientific visualisation and visual representation of viruses, as well as a study of the technological tools and scientific methods needed to concretely assemble such images.
Dr Buiani will be joining CoDE in August.
Back to CoDE news archive
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