This conference is part of an ongoing collaboration between the sciences, arts, and humanities at UW-Madison and will include a public lecture, workshop, research colloquium and exhibition that take up issues of visuality and visual technologies in the sciences. All events are free and open to the public, and advanced registration is required for the research colloquium on Friday, February 8.
To register for the conference, please visit: http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/reg/catalog_course_detail.asp?course_key=18990
“Visualizing Science” is co-sponsored by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Eye Research Institute, the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, and the Departments of Art, Art History, Medical History and Bioethics, and Sociology.
For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Events/0708/newdirections.htm.
Public lecture by Michael Lynch, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.
MICHAEL LYNCH is currently Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is currently president of the Society for Social Studies of Science and editor of Social Studies of Science. His areas of research and teaching include ethnomethodology, sociology of science, and contemporary social theory. His long-standing interest in visualization in science goes back to his first book, Art & Artifact in Laboratory Science (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985) and his edited anthology (with Steve Woolgar), Representation in Scientific Practice (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) and includes papers on visualization in electron microscopy, digital image processing in astronomy, and other fields. He is co-author of a forthcoming book, Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
The colloquium will feature short presentations and discussions from UW-Madison faculty and graduate students on the following questions: How do issues of audience and communication shape the way science is visualized? What are the roles of culture, technology and subjectivity?
The colloquium is organized by Sheila Reaves, Professor of Life Sciences Communication at UW-Madison.
The workshop will involve examples and exercises in which participants explore how visualization is featured in scientific communication, demonstration, and argument. Topical contexture is a term used to describe the relationship between arrangements of visible details and the gestalt forms they compose.Open to faculty and graduate students. Seating is limited. Advanced registration with the Visual Culture Center is required. To register, and to gain access to the required readings, please send an inquiry to visualculture@education.wisc.edu. ***Please note that registration for the morning research colloquium and lunch does not guarantee a seat in the workshop.
Guest co-curators Amy Noell and Beth Zinsli (PhD Students, Art History) discuss "The Scientist's Eye: Dialogues between Art and Science." The exhibition features artist and rare books from the Kohler Art Library and Special Collections (Memorial Library).