How Long to Read Giving Bodies Back to Data

How Long Does it Take to Read Giving Bodies Back to Data?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Giving Bodies Back to Data by Silvia Casini

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An examination of the bodily, situated aspects of data-visualization work, looking at visualization practices around the development of MRI technology. Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In this book, Silvia Casini reveals the affective relations and materiality that turn data into image--and in so doing, gives bodies back to data. Opening the black box of MRI technology, Casini examines the bodily, situated aspects of visualization practices around the development of this technology. Reframing existing narratives of biomedical innovation, she emphasizes the important but often overlooked roles played by aesthetics, affectivity, and craft practice in medical visualization. Combining history, theory, laboratory ethnography, archival research, and collaborative art-science, Casini retrieves the multiple presences and agencies of bodies in data visualization, mapping the traces of scientists' body work and embodied imagination. She presents an in-depth ethnographic study of MRI development at the University of Aberdeen's biomedical physics laboratory, from the construction of the first whole-body scanner for clinical purposes through the evolution of the FFC-MRI. Going beyond her original focus on MRI, she analyzes a selection of neuroscience- or biomedicine-inspired interventions by artists in media ranging from sculpture to virtual reality. Finally, she presents a methodology for designing and carrying out small-scale art-science projects, describing a collaboration that she herself arranged, highlighting the relational and aesthetic-laden character of data that are the product of craftsmanship and affective labor at the laboratory bench.

How long is Giving Bodies Back to Data?

Giving Bodies Back to Data by Silvia Casini is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Giving Bodies Back to Data Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Giving Bodies Back to Data aloud.

What Reading Level is Giving Bodies Back to Data?

Giving Bodies Back to Data is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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