How do scientists use new kinds of imagery to show what they know?
Images like brain scans and botanical illustrations are central to scientific practice. But today, accessible technologies can create lifelike algorithmically generated images – photo-like pictures made through the manipulation of digital data.
These new kinds of images have introduced distinctive challenges to our ability to trust the things we can see with our own eyes. Show and Tell investigates the ways that we use new kinds of imagery to show what we know, and how we go about the work of convincing others to know it themselves. Click here to learn more!
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- July 16-19: 4S/EASST Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Engdahl, Gerber, Lee-Morrison & Olofsson)
- August 9-14: The American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (Gerber)
- October 1-31: Berkley, CA, USA (Engdahl)
- October 3-4: The Swedish STS Conference 2024, Norrköping, Sverige (Gerber & Olofsson)
News
23 Jan 2024 | News
Lila Lee-Morrison awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Lila Lee-Morrison was recently awarded the prestigious 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant under the book category. The program supports writing about contemporary art a...
10 Jan 2024 | News
Workshop: Now, then, and forever
How do narratives, prognoses, and visualizations of the past and future shape present-day events, decisions, and social structures? These themes will be explored in a for a two-da...
1 Jul 2023 | News
Round up of the spring semester
As Lund moves into a period of summertime stillness Show & Tellers are able to look back on yet another busy semester of fieldwork, writing, teaching, talks and presentations, and ...
16 May 2023 | News
Show & Tell welcomes colleagues to a workshop in springtime Skåne
May 15 colleagues from Uppsala and Berlin join Show & Tell for a three day workshop discussing the aesthetics of persuasion.
14 Apr 2023 | News
Alexandra Middleton awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship
