Justine Cooper pursues new ways of “seeing” the body by adapting medical technologies for artistic purposes. Working on the boundary between art and science, she incorporates ultrasound imaging, scanning electron microscopy, DNA sequencing and other “scientific” visual information into her media-based artworks. Cooper, who lives in Brooklyn, NY but is originally from Australia, collaborated with scientists at the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis in Sydney. In Rapt, Cooper used Magnetic Resonance Imaging to scan the interior of her own body. She then created an animated self-portrait—offering viewers access to her body by programming the visual data into a flying journey around and within. “Rapt poses the question of if and how new technologies shift the way we can conceive of space, by presenting us with an alternate, elastic interpretation of the body.”

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