Visualizing how art and literature “inform and misinform, represent and misrepresent” the topic of vaccines

[Katy Borner]

Dear all,
I hope you can point J.D. Talasek <JTalasek at nas.edu> to relevant 
visualizing on how art and literature “inform and misinform, represent 
and misrepresent” the topic of vaccines.
Thanks & regards,
k

On 6/29/2011 4:13 PM, Talasek, J.D. wrote:
>
> Katy,
>
> Thanks.
>
> Here is an overview of the project.  As they are looking primarily for 
> the representation of vaccines through art and literature, I raised 
> the issue of how striking much of the visualizations that you are 
> working with might be included if we can find something that fits.  I 
> highlighted the key info below ...
>
> The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will hold its annual meeting in 
> October 2011. Over 500 IOM members attend this event. Our focus this 
> year is Vaccines. Along with a broad and in-depth variety of 
> presentations and panel discussions on global, national, legal and 
> ethical issues. Dr. Seth Berkley, most recently appointed Chief 
> Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines 
> and Immunisation), will deliver one of the meeting’s keynotes and 
> Anthony Lake, PhD., Executive Director, UNICEF, will deliver a second 
> keynote. Our meeting chairs are: Dr. Tachi Yamada, Professor Ellen 
> Wright Clayton and Dr. Jo Ivey Bouford.
>
> Though the planning committee has not yet finalized our agenda, 
> several key components to the meeting will include:
>
> •       Global History and Ethical Challenges
>
> •       Current Science and Future Challenges
>
> •       Specific needs of African countries
>
> As part of our meeting, *The IOM Executive Office has conceived of 
> creating a visually high-impact, digital multimedia installation. The 
> concept is to explore ways in which art and literature “inform and 
> misinform, represent and misrepresent” the topic of vaccines.  The IOM 
> will engage a three-person content committee comprised of 
> consultants/curators/scholars who understand semiotics (the discipline 
> of how meaning is interpreted, how symbols create meaning), art 
> history and the history of medicine/science. This project also 
> underscores as part of its subtext a variety of health literacy 
> issues. The question that the art and literature materials will pose 
> is how institutions within different cultural contexts and with varied 
> cultural repertoires communicate vaccine-related topics to individuals 
> and how these individuals interpret what is being communicated to them.***
>
> The final product will be presented at the meeting, most likely as an 
> “art installation” (art communicating art). We may also edit shorts 
> from the material to screen at the outset and close of each section of 
> the meeting. Other products created from this material will include:
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> •       A DVD give-away to all IOM participants at the meeting
>
> •       A possible exhibit at the NAS Koshland Museum
>
> •       A posting of the digital material on the IOM website
>
> •       A possible Rosenthal Lecture on Art/Literature and Health Care 
> Policy in November
>
>

-- 
Katy Borner
Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science
Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu
Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org

School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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