Medical Literacy through Art

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Intersections II: Art, Healthcare, and Well-being

Panel Discussion

Medical Literacy through Art

Špela Petrič (SI), Mary Maggic (US), Patricia Stark (AT), Haley Marks (US)

The reputed opacity of healthcare systems is the symptom of a gap in knowledge, mutual understanding and empathy between medical services and patients. Understanding and having access to health-related information matters greatly to individual health and well-being. According to the WHO, health literacy can be a strong predictor of an individual’s health status.

We invite artists Špela Petrič and Mary Maggic to discuss how their practice contributes to health literacy, not only by telling stories differently but sometimes by telling different stories.

POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall
Fr. 5. Sep. 2025 14:25 – 14:55

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    Patricia Stark

    Together with her team at the JKU Linz’s LIFT_C, Patricia Stark produces formats that facilitate real collaboration between science, society, and students. Drawing on fifteen years of working in the industrial sector, she is most interested in what happens in between disciplines. She is trying to understand how we can achieve transformation and shape the future together.

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    Mary Tsang

    Mary Maggic (b. 1991, Los Angeles) is an artist using “workshopology” and practices of collectivity as critical sites of care and knowledge production that can help us address today’s ecological crises. Through transformative strategies that collaborate with the planetary wounds, such as waste and pollution, Maggic leans on our shared permeability to explore the true meaning of being in relation. They are currently leading the plastic forest project, FLORESTANIA IM DRITTEN (Vienna).

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    Špela Petrič

    Špela Petrič is a Slovenian hybrid media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic research and practice combine (bio)media and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that question the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies. Recently, she has been looking closely at the automation of care in agriculture and medicine.

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    Haley Marks

    Dr. Haley Marks is a biomedical engineer specializing in microscopy, nanotechnology, translational medicine, and biomedical optics education. At UCLA’s CNSI, she develops advanced imaging tools and trains researchers from a variety of fields in their use. As a member of UCLA’s Art|Sci collective, her lectures and collaborative work introduce students and the public to medical photonics, showing how microscopy reveals hidden insights and serves as a bridge between science, technology, and art.

Credits

Intersections II: Art, Healthcare, and Well-being was initiated by Open Innovation in Science Center at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, and developed in collaboration with EIT Culture and Creativity and EIT Health.