Technology is revolutionising medicine with potential impacts for all of our lives. But how much do we understand the developments shaping the future of healthcare?
Carlos Cueto Mondejar from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging is developing faster, cheaper and safer ways to image the brain using ultrasound that could be made available to first responders to a major incident. Last year he began working with Melanie King, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art and co-Director of super/collider, an independent creative agency that explores science from a pop cultural standpoint.
They were brought together for the Great Exhibition Road Festival as part of a public engagement project called ART X SCIENCE to artistically help the public make sense of research into new medical imaging technologies. Together they have produced ULTRA, a two-part composition made up of an interactive computer-generated piece and a soundtrack that converts Carlos’s brain scanning data into audio to allow you to listen to a journey through the brain
At this talk we will find out a little more about Carlos and Melanie’s day jobs and daily challenges, how they got interested in the collaboration of science and art, and their ambitions for working together in the future.
Great Exhibition Road Festival
The Great Exhibition Road Festival is a free annual celebration of curiosity, discovery and exploration. Join us as Exhibition Road is transformed with events and activities from over 20 research and culture organisations around South Kensington including Imperial College London, Royal Commission of 1851, Discover South Kensington, Royal Albert Hall, V&A, Science Museum, Royal College of Music, Natural History Museum and many more.
This event is part of the Festival’s new online events programme, celebrating science and the arts from your home.