Speakers Alexander Tsiaras: Medical image maker
Using art and technology, Alexander Tsiaras visualizes the unseen human body.
Why you should listen to him:
Alexander Tsiaras is an artist and technologist whose work explores the unseen human body, developing scientific visualization software to enable him to "paint" the human anatomy using volume data. He's the author of Body Voyage and co-author of Information Architects. Most recently, he is the author of From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds and The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed.
His latest project is The Visual MD, an online compendium of health visualizations.
Quotes by Alexander Tsiaras
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“Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?”
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“The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go — the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.”
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Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized
- 09:37 Posted: Nov 2011
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- INK Conference