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Bianka Hofmann

Sep 3, 2022
1 min

Forgotten feelings and false memories

Don’t miss this #artsci work! It was an intriguing, remarkable and rewarding process leading the residency program STEAM Imaging IV for Fraunhofer MEVIS with artist Zeynep Abes! A vital part of the program are joint activities with school students and their parents. #medicine #mri #science #art #STEAMImaging #sciencecommunication #transformingeducation #knowledgetransfer More: https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2022/08/28/fraunhofer_zeynep_abes/

Summer in Berlin?! Join us at the event "The Art of Complexity"

Bianka Hofmann

Jun 5, 2018
1 min

Summer in Berlin?! Join us at the event "The Art of Complexity"

On the 5th of June, Yen Tzu Chang will perform WHOSE SCALPEL, the artistic outcome of the residency ”STEAM Imaging.” The STEAM-team and prominent keynote speakers Horst Hahn and Gerfried Stocker looking forward to discussing the topic complexity in medicine and arts with the guests. Gerfried Stocker, Alexander Köhn, Yen Tzu Chang, Bianka Hofmann, Sabrina Haase Copyright: Fraunhofer IuK-Verbund WHOSE SCALPEL addresses the future of the human-machine relationship in surgery. Th

New 3D short movie! Physicians’ Colleague, Patients’ Helper: The Cognitive Computer

Bianka Hofmann

May 3, 2018
1 min

New 3D short movie! Physicians’ Colleague, Patients’ Helper: The Cognitive Computer

Great pleasure being back in the Deep Space 8K at Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria and see our new produced short movie for the first time in this 3D space! We had the toughest test audience: primary school children - it was great fun! The film shows how deep neural networks contribute to the evaluation of medical data and how this also changes the role of physicians and patients. In the future, doctors will compare their patients' medical images and treatment informatio

Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis Nominated at the 12th FullDome Festival!

Bianka Hofmann

Apr 11, 2018
1 min

Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis Nominated at the 12th FullDome Festival!

Delighted to be nominated with my colleagues Alexander Köhn and Mathias Neugebauer at FullDome Festival ShortFilms 2018 with Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis. #shortmovie #immersivemedia #medicalimaging #producer #artsci #sciart

Flesh and Voxel: Making Sense of Medical Images | UCLA

Bianka Hofmann

Jan 8, 2018
1 min

Flesh and Voxel: Making Sense of Medical Images | UCLA

Design and realization of a workshop and talk: "Flesh and Voxel: Making Sense of Medical Images | STEM TO STEAM." Talk about the potential of connecting scientific expertise and artistic creativity to mold the future. With the pilot artist-in-residence project called STEAM Imaging, I designed for Fraunhofer MEVIS, the scientific disciplines were departed beyond knowledge silos, and not only an artistic approach but also school students were integrated. I see involving the you

Workshop: Science + Art = The Next Generation of Researchers?

Bianka Hofmann

Jan 7, 2018
1 min

Workshop: Science + Art = The Next Generation of Researchers?

Delighted to give a workshop with the mathematician Sabrina Haase at the intersection of art, science, technology, media, and entertainment at the Raw Science Film Festival. We exhibited the steps of our journey from STEM to STEAM workshops and provided a demo of ”Inside Insight,” an interactive web tool for a practical introduction into creative mathematics, physics, and computer science, with a focus on enhancing medical data artistically. We are preparing ”Inside Insight

Bianka Hofmann

Jan 6, 2018
1 min

Industry Award for Best Immersive Media

For the short-movie Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis, Raw Science Film Festival, California, January 2018. I received the award with my colleagues Alexander Köhn and Mathias Neugebauer. This special 2017 vortex half-dome edit is based on the longer 3D stereoscopic immersive installation Virtual Journey Through the Heart which I produced for the Deep Space 8K, Ars Electronica Science Center. It shows the dynamic reconstruction of the blood flow of a healthy human heart. New imagi

Poster at The Workshop AESTHETICS get SYNTHETIC: Knowledge Link Through Art & Science

Bianka Hofmann

Nov 27, 2017
1 min

Poster at The Workshop AESTHETICS get SYNTHETIC: Knowledge Link Through Art & Science

This workshop was an opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners to jointly discuss and reflect on contents, approaches and methodologies that draw the link between synthetic biology and artistic research and how those can synergically interact by mutually interrogating and reconsidering their methodologies and modes of operation in an Artist in Residence program like KLAS. In this workshop they were particularly interested in discussions and perspectives that ex

Bianka Hofmann

Oct 21, 2017
1 min

about ALEX: Meta-realistic Medical Moving Images of the Brain at Largest Science Festival in Germany

Delighted to present a new method to convey medical interrelationships quickly and intuitively. Visitors can discover the brain’s functionality interactively at the largest science festival in Germany: The Long Night of Sciences in Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen. Come, be amazed and learn! Visit the town library to explore "about Alex," Fraunhofer MEVIS' & AUDIOVERSUM's interactive brain exhibit presented by Kortizes. October 21, 2017, 6:00 pm to 1:00 am. Children’s program 2

Conference: Art and Science at the Ars Electronica Festival 2017 | Talk and panel

Bianka Hofmann

Sep 10, 2017
1 min

Conference: Art and Science at the Ars Electronica Festival 2017 | Talk and panel

Dialog-oriented Sci-Comm: From "STEAM Imaging" to "Whose Scalpel" - An Artist-in-Residency including pupils - conclusion of my talk. From the perspective of the scientific organization. Scientists can contribute to developing utopias neither dystopias nor promises of technological salvation. Scientific organizations could host cross-disciplinary, intergenerational platforms to deal with the impact of new technologies at an early stage. STEAM Imaging, Fraunhofer MEVIS' residen

Bianka Hofmann

Sep 9, 2017
1 min

THE PRACTICE OF ART AND SCIENCE

Read more about the aims of the residency STEAM IMAGING to foster engagement with, and ownership of future technology and THE EUROPEAN DIGITAL ART AND SCIENCE NETWORK in this book: https://www.aec.at/artandscience/en/ #STEAM #artsci #artistinresidency #sciart #article

Bianka Hofmann

Sep 7, 2017
2 min

WHOSE SCALPEL: The artistic outcome of the residency STEAM Imaging by artist Yen Tzu Chang

The premiere of Yen Tzu Changs performance WHOSE SCALPEL at the Ars Electronica Festival 2017. The installation is the artistic outcome of the artist-in-residency project STEAM Imaging, which I designed, lead and realized with the mathematician Sabrina Haase for Fraunhofer MEVIS. YEN TZU CHANG on WHOSE SCALPEL: "WHOSE SCALPEL" is a sound performance combined with visual and 3D printed installation, realized with an application framework for medical image processing. Mixing se

From STEM to STEAM: Involving the Next Generation, Exploring Flexible Forms of Approaches and Cooper

Bianka Hofmann

Aug 1, 2017
1 min

From STEM to STEAM: Involving the Next Generation, Exploring Flexible Forms of Approaches and Cooper

STEAM Imaging: A Pupils’ Workshop Experiment in Computer Science, Physics, and Sound Art Published in SCIART MAGAZINE Special Topics August 2017: STEAM, 1. August 2017 By Bianka Hofmann, Sabrina Haase, and David Black, Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS Alongside Taiwanese media artist Yen Tzu Chang, Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists Sabrina Haase and Bianka Hofmann designed a creative workshop for pupils in the field of computer-assisted medicine and sound art

Evaluation Results of the Pupils’ Workshop ”STEAM Imaging: Art Meets Medical Research” Published

Bianka Hofmann

Jul 17, 2017
1 min

Evaluation Results of the Pupils’ Workshop ”STEAM Imaging: Art Meets Medical Research” Published

The independent evaluation results of the workshops with pupils in the course of the artist-in-residency program STEAM imaging were published. Together with mathematician Sabrina Haase and artist Yen Tzu Chang I set up the workshop for pupils in Bremen and Linz to explore medical imaging technologies and sound art in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen and the Ars Electronica in Linz. The workshops in Bremen and Linz were evaluated by the external scien

Bianka Hofmann

Mar 28, 2017
1 min

First Pupils’ Workshop Experiment in Computer Science, Physics, and Sound Art

With the mathematician Sabrina Haase I realized an interactive two day workshop alongside Taiwanese media artist Yen Tzu Chang for pupils in the field of computer-assisted medicine and sound art within the STEAM Imaging artist-in-residency program. The first workshop took place at the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute at the Technology Park in Bremen. Read the articel in SciArt Special Issue STEAM, August 2017 #workshop #artsci #sciart #STEAM #artistinresidency

Bianka Hofmann

Mar 20, 2017
1 min

Mentoring the Artist Yen Tzu Chang

Mentoring the artist Yen Tzu Chang from March to September 2017. Yen Tzu Chang was the recipient of the residency STEAM imaging which I designed and led with Sabrina Haase. The residency was jointly hosted by Fraunhofer MEVIS and Ars Electronica. It connected computer-assisted medicine with education and art. The Taiwanese media artist, whose previous works have included experimental sound performances and who specializes in creating customized electronic instruments, had a

How to Create an Artist-Residency: Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Bianka Hofmann

Feb 14, 2017
1 min

How to Create an Artist-Residency: Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

I presented the artist-in-residency program ”STEAM Imaging” as part of the SciCom activities at Fraunhofer MEVIS. Why and how did we realize it? Together with Claudia Schnugg, we discussed the concept paper of MPI's announcement of an artist as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and elaborated evaluation criteria for this new residency program based on other Artist in Residence programs. #workshop #artistinresidency #STEAM #sciart #artsci

Interview at Ars Electronica Blog –
STEAM Imaging: An Experiment in Art & Science

Bianka Hofmann

Jan 30, 2017
1 min

Interview at Ars Electronica Blog – STEAM Imaging: An Experiment in Art & Science

Interview about the background of an exciting artist-in-residency pilot project I designed with the mathematician Sabrina Haase that focuses on links between art and science. We’re also integrating pupils into this experiment. Image Copyright: Fraunhofer MEVIS #interview #producer #AudienceEngagement #artistinresidency #STEAM #mentoring #workshop #sciart #artsci