Author: Amy Ione, PO Box 12748. Berkeley, California
94712-3748
Email: ione@lmi.net
/ URL: http://users.Lmi.net/ione
Abstract
Images are everywhere today and when we look at them closely it quickly
becomes clear that the technological innovations of the twentieth century have
allowed us to see formerly unavailable information. One compelling aspect of
this, and my primary area of concern in this paper, is that while artists have
pierced through surfaces and created dynamic pictures of the brain working,
scientific imaging technologies have generated images that have revolutionized
our understanding of our minds. This paper discusses these new ways of 'seeing'
the world and ourselves, defining visual representation as a creative and
interactive modality.
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In R. Paton & I.
Neilson (Eds.), Visual Representations and Interpretations (1999).
London: Verlag-Springer Publishing Co.. Presented at Visual Representations and
Interpretations’98. 22nd - 24th of September, 1998, The Foresight Centre,
University of Liverpool, London, UK