Looking at ourselves
Imaging technologies applied in archaeology, brain science, then design
Exhibition at the ELSC Marin Dassault Gallery
Supported by Stratasys, and Elisabeth and Alain Krenstowski in memory of Martine Dassault
curator: Dr. Michal Mor
Of all the senses, humans have evolved to greatly rely on our visual system coupled with our ability to interpret what it is we are seeing; the movement of prey in a landscape, bodily cues in social interactions, color tint differences in eatables, facial expressions, to name a few.
It is not by chance that many of the tools developed to study ourselves, whether through artifacts we created in the past, or through our physiological workings, rely on, and output, visual data. Both the fields of Archaeology and of Brain Sciences make use of and develop such tools as a regular part of study methodology.
Technologies like fMRI have significantly enhanced our capacity to visualize localized neural activity, enabling us to chart the intricate landscape of our own minds.
The field of Computational Archaeology develops and applies digital tools to 3D scanned artifacts and excavated surroundings, in order to better understand past hominin activity.
While many of these tool's analytics have shared aesthetic value and a cultural­ technological context, they are what they are: as-objective-as-possible expressions of peering at what exists.
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Prof. Leore Grosman, Dr. Gadi Herzlinger, Prof. Yonatan Lewinstien, Tsahi Asher and Dr. Noam Saadon-Grosman, Prof. Dov Ganchrow