Interesting thoughts about the definition of death from James Tibballs and Neera Bhatia in the Medical Journal of Australia https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2015/203/6/transplantation-heart-after-circulatory-death-donor-time-change-law Fiona Davies Blood on Silk / Surgery (detail) Installed foyer of the Science Building Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Why experts are rethinking blood transfusions - Health & Wellbeing.
'Many people ask me what scientists “get” from work with artists. I feel James Wells, the theoretical physicist who was the ‘inspirational partner’ for Collide@CERN’s first artist in residence Julius von Bismarck expressed it so beautifully when he talked about valuing having someone around who saw the world in a different way, whose influence, he felt, could [...]
NHS to give volunteers 'synthetic blood' made in laboratory within two years. Click on image to go to a link to an Independent Article
'Multi-Functional Printable Silk Inks Tap Common Print Technology to Address Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine, Bio-Sensing Needs - In the photo - ' When printed on surgical gloves in functional silk inks doped with bacteria-sensing agents, the word "contaminated" changed from blue to red after exposure to E. coli.'
Having a difficult but interesting time reworking my work from Cementa_15 where it was located in a site where the intention was very obviously to consider buying and selling anything. The new site is a white cube gallery space where the importance of the economic transactions tend to be hidden with not everything on show as in the first site or [...]
Interesting article in Medical News Today on the benefits in paediatric procedures of using fresh whole blood from a single donor
https://youtu.be/CLDTyNKMRDk Click for the link to a you tube video of the work Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015 found objects, sound video and print 420 x 220 x 80cm Don't forget to turn the sound up Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15. April [...]
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