touching thoughts / kicking cancer / Sabina Köfler, Jan Maximilian Janssen, Błażej Kotowski, Eva Maria Dreisiebner, Francesco Luzzana, jiawen uffline, Simone C Niquille / technoflesh Studio, Chaeyoung Kim & Francesco Luzzana, Sofia Talanti/Photo: tom mesic
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Live-Presentation: touching thoughts / kicking cancer

Sabina Köfler (AT), Jan Maximilian Janssen (AT)

JKU MED Campus, JKU medSPACE, First Floor
Thu 5. Sep 2024 16:30 – 19:00

touching thoughts / kicking cancer is a collaboration between the Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology and the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the medical faculty of the Johannes Kepler University and the Linz-based network initiative, servus.at.

Situated at the intersection of art, science and digital culture, the project engages with advanced imaging techniques such as light sheet microscopy, confocal microscopy and expansion microscopy. It examines how these techniques are used in the creation of large 3D datasets of neuronal networks and cancer tissues.

Digital artists Błażej Kotowski, jiawen, kamo and Simone C Niquille have been invited to investigate the digital nature of such image-making processes.
The encounter with the artistic research widens scientific protocols by casting light on the conditions and methods through which such images are produced. How does the digital world enable and inform all of this?

Language: EN
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  • Photo: KUK

    Jan Maximilian Janssen

    DE

    Jan Maximilian Janssen is a group leader at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Johannes Kepler University, Linz. He is also a resident doctor at the Department of Otolaryngology / Head-Neck Surgery at Kepler University Hospital, Linz.

    After completing his medical studies at Heidelberg University, he joined Maren Engelhardt’s lab at JKU in 2021 and specializes in super-resolution microscopy to study neuronal plasticity and the structural composition of nano domains at the axon initial segment.

  • Photo: Petra Moser

    Sabina Köfler

    AT

    Sabina Köfler is a university assistant and research group leader in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology at Johannes Kepler University, Linz. She holds an MSc in Molecular Biology from JKU and the University of Salzburg as well as a Master of Arts in Photography from the Art University of Linz. Her expertise as a tissue researcher includes biomedical image analysis, digital histopathology and AI in pathology.

Credits

Sabina Köfler, Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, JKU Linz / Jan Maximilian Jannsen, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, JKU Linz / Davide Bevilacqua, servus.at – Kunst und Kultur im Netz / Andreas Roschger, FB Chemistry and Physics of Materials, MorphoPhysics Group, University of Salzburg / Serge Weis, Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, Neuropathology / Joachim Smetschka, Department of Time-based and Interactive Media, University of Arts Linz

This project is supported by the State of Upper Austria.