Exhibitions: The Development of MRI and FFC-MRI in Aberdeen

Exhibitions: The Development of MRI and FFC-MRI in Aberdeen
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Grampian Hospitals Art Trust (GHAT) is excited to announce the opening of two exhibitions celebrating 40 years of MRI and FFC-MRI development on the Foresterhill Campus in Aberdeen.

Immobile Choreography - Beverley Hood

Saturday 20th April – Sunday 16th June 2019

Edinburgh based artist Beverley Hood has been awarded the commission to work with The University of Aberdeen team who are leading the research project, IDentIFY.  The University of Aberdeen is working alongside nine European partners on the IDentIFY project, to develop a new kind of medical scanner, Fast Field-Cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FFC-MRI). GHAT demonstrates the link between art, science and technology. These Grampian Hospitals Art Trust exhibitions demonstrate the link between art, science and technology. The Immobile Choreography Project is Beverley’s professional artistic reflections on the experience of MRI Scanner through sound and light.

As in standard MRI (found in tens of thousands of hospitals worldwide), FFC-MRI uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce images of the inside of a patient’s head or body. FFC-MRI generates extra information by switching the strength of its magnet during a scan, and it is hoped that this can help doctors diagnose disease more reliably. IDentIFY, funded by the European Commission, is aimed at developing FFC-MRI and bringing it closer to use in hospitals. The Aberdeen team have built a prototype scanner and is already using it to image patients who have suffered from a stroke.

 

From Where Do We See? - Craft skills and aesthetics in MRI

Curated by Dr Silvia Casini

Tuesday 23rd April – Sunday 16th June 2019 - Any Time

Retrospective narratives of biomedical innovation tend to omit the role played by aesthetics and craft skills, framing them as peripheral to science and privileging theory creation over practical making. 

This exhibition presents a selection of previously unknown archival sources related to the Aberdonian development of Mark-1, the world’s first whole-body MRI clinical scanner and material from the team leading the IDentIFY project. The aim is to explore how methods and theories from the arts and humanities, usually considered peripheral to science, feed into past and present MRI innovation networks. The archival material exhibited in The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary introduces visitors to some of the humanities aspects of medical imaging.

This exhibition is being supported by an award from the Aberdeen Humanities Fund

 

Talk and Publication Launch

Friday 24th May, 5.00pm – 6.00pm

As part of this year’s MayFest, GHAT is launching a publication to accompany these exhibitions. The launch event will be led by Dr Silvia Casini, with invited guest speakers.

Venue
The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN
Contact

For more information please contact Maggie at maggie.simpson2@nhs.net