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Portraits and other hoaxes: Why some research about Andreas Vesalius is not picked up

Many details in the biography of anatomist Andreas Vesalius have been confirmed as hoaxes in the past few decades. The most malicious ones concern his alleged trouble with the Inquisition and his death in a shipwreck. Nobody can ignore, though, the sources proving that Vesalius travelled to the Holy Land as a devout pilgrim with the support of his employer, and that, upon his return, he did not die on a deserted beach along the Ionian coast, but expired in Zakynthos, where he was buried in the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church, now destroyed.

A HUMANISED BUTTERFLY NAMED LEDA MELANITIS

A work of inserting a human gene (artists‘ Melanitis Yiannis) in a butterfly (species: Leda Melanitis).

Yiannis Melanitis work initiates from an intense conceptualization on the strategies of the contemporary artist and the artwork itself, deviating from its epistemological origins, implying the use of heterogeneous artistic media, through installations, performances, critical texts, sculptures, paintings and drawings.

Exploring interconnectedness

Christiana Kazakou is a multidisciplinary arts practitioner based in London. During the last two years, she has participated in a number of projects blurring the boundaries of art and science. Her artistic practice explores interconnectedness and the open-ended dialogue between art and science by combining scientific concepts, laws and theories from different disciplines with an arts practice.

Between Art and Biomedicine

For over 10 years, Cindy Stelmackowich has investigated the relationship between art and biomedicine. Historical anatomical images have been made into digital collages that ask new sets of questions about medicine; its histories, methods and knowledge structures. Vintage medical equipment has also been integrated into laboratory-themed installations. These artworks allow for an interdisciplinary dialogue between digital technology, contemporary biomedical science and art – three disciplines that are ultimately not as far apart as they initially might seem.

The Greening of the Galaxy

Suzanne Anker is a pioneer in BioArt, working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her fastidious experimentation in a wide array of mediums and subjects, ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights, is an effort to push at the boundaries of BioArt and is an incitement of fearlessness and tenacity in the creation of scientific artworks. In The Greening of the Galaxy she presents images and objects that speak to the 21st century.

LaΒ. Bio-Conceptual Creations

Vasia Hatzi stands between two different worlds: Science and Art. With a BSc in Genetics and a PhD in Cytogenetics, she is continuously exploring the cellular world and investigates the mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Ιn 2012, Vasia created LaΒ., a hybrid world of Science and Art, as a child with two equally developed brain hemispheres. In the world of LaB., typical biological structures are transformed into unique bio-conceptual creations. Basic functions of life return to their primitive form. All equally combined, they embody the charm of a balanced and magnificent microcosm. In the world of LaΒ., Intelligence is the new Beauty.

Talking About Consciousness 2 (Blog)

Links to the Interalia Magazine blog, ‘Talking about Consciousness’, featuring – His Holiness The Dalai Lama: The Relation between Matter & Consciousness ; Alva Noë : Why is Consciousness so baffling? ; Marvin Minsky on Consciousness ; J Krishnamurti: On the relationship between thought and consciousness ; Peter Russell: The Reality of Consciousness

Exploring the Nature of Consciousness

By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. In this article, he explores the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness.