Digital Anatomy
On our last tutorial group meeting we were wondering how does the object of representation change through digitalization and if this way of making represenatations can be called objective or not.
Short list of questions to think about :
- how did the knowledge of human body change?
-how much do we know about the body?
-do we know more with the progress or is it a different knowledge?
-is digitalliazation continuing mechanical objectivity or truth to nature? both? none?
-whitch other knowledge/skills do we need to use the modern technologies?
-how does the object of represenation change through digitallization?
and last but not least - is digital imaging objective?
The last question is an interesting starting point for a discussion cause scientists through the ages were seeking for an objective tool to create representations. Firts mechanical objectivity now digital imaging seems to be the dream come true. Both mechanical objectivity and digital imaging involve the use of mechanical tools that seem to work by itself. Yet it is not the light that draws the image through the camera lens and it's not the MRI scanner that makes the brain scans just on its own. It is the scientist who decides what will be on the picture apart from the object, how the object will be positioned etc. ( in mechanical objectivity) or how the scans will be coloured, how will the body be positioned in the scanner, how the body will be resting etc.(digital imaging). Therefore it seems to me that the quest for an objective tool of creating representations is still going. Go inventors!!!