Roberta Buiani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Buiani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Buiani |
| SIGNATURE | BUIANI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8589-2911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Giving Bodies Back to Data
Giving Bodies Back to Data takes us on a fascinating journey into the history and complexities of MRI technologies. Specifically, the book emphasizes the role that aesthetics, affectivity, and craft practice play in the processes leading to the production of and the artistic responses to these technologies.The introduction presents readers with three compelling scenes that immediately grab their attention and set the tone for the entire book. In …
All models are wrong, but some are useful
Epidemiological models have been crucial tools throughout all stages of the 2020-21 Coronavirus pandemic: using promptly available or historical data, they have studied and tried to anticipate its progression, providing valuable guidelines for public health officials, policymakers, and other medical and non-medical audiences. While useful, models are not designed to be infallible, and for this reason, they have been frequently subject to criticis…
Uncanny Convergences
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Triage Culture
As businesses reopen following several months of lockdown, I can’t help but think of the way the pandemic has intensified and brought to the surface the persistence of inequalities. In this short essay I reflect on this persistence and on the tendency to treat them as special circumstances and as isolated news, when they are all the product of a culture based on triage, that is, a culture based on artificial scarcity that forces the most vulnerab…
Beyond Mapping
In this article, I use a recent research creation project and its mobile component (the TiP lab) to emphasize the importance of regarding the city as an entanglement of sometimes evident, sometimes hidden naturecultural geographies and more-than-human encounters. While official narratives are not interested in narrating such vibrant multidimensionality, traditional cartographic practices do not seem to be able to seize them. In exploring ways to …
Re-mapping life
In this paper, I discuss the significance of medical visualization in relation to recent creative practices that could dismantle, or at least redress, some of its most long-lasting tenets. In fact, driven by an almost cult-like and disproportional trust in mechanization, quantities (of data), quantification and medical visualization tend to either isolate and fragment life and its constituents, reducing it to a series of discrete fragments, or to…
Innovation and Compliance in Making and Perceiving the Scientific Visualization of Viruses
This article investigates the variety that typifies visualizations of the H5N1 virus. It argues for virus visualizations to be examined as products of processes, instruments, and socio-cultural assumptions, rather than as mere illustrations. Visualization unfolds through a series of tensions between two contending forces. The first implements normative rules and cultural narratives. The second seeks to escape them. This double tendency recurs at …
Performing the web
On October 1, 2011, following its public debut at a gallery in Toronto, the Sandbox Project made its appearance online, timidly emerging from the bursting folds of the popular Wordpress Content Management System (CMS). The Sandbox Project is an itinerant community art and activism laboratory consisting of a series of live events and a complementary online platform, both conceived as a collaborative effort of countless individuals. The project exp…
Little Brother Breaks the Fifth Commandment
In 1976 Antonio Negri wrote an introduction to the Italian translation of Jerry Rubin's Growing (Up) at Thirty-Seven, the book that followed his iconic Yippie manifesto ‘Do it’ (Fallo! In Italian). Out of print for some time, the former (with Negri's introduction) was reprinted in 2009. Negri appears to be interested in the transformation of a culture that had flourished with the Yippies, advocating, and coagulating into, new forms of actions, no…
Beyond Mapping
In this article, I use a recent research creation project and its mobile component (the TiP lab) to emphasize the importance of regarding the city as an entanglement of sometimes evident, sometimes hidden naturecultural geographies and more-than-human encounters. While official narratives are not interested in narrating such vibrant multidimensionality, traditional cartographic practices do not seem to be able to seize them. In exploring ways to …
Little Brother Breaks the Fifth Commandment
In 1976 Antonio Negri wrote an introduction to the Italian translation of Jerry Rubin's Growing (Up) at Thirty-Seven, the book that followed his iconic Yippie manifesto ‘Do it’ (Fallo! In Italian). Out of print for some time, the former (with Negri's introduction) was reprinted in 2009. Negri appears to be interested in the transformation of a culture that had flourished with the Yippies, advocating, and coagulating into, new forms of actions, no…
Innovation and Compliance in Making and Perceiving the Scientific Visualization of Viruses
This article investigates the variety that typifies visualizations of the H5N1 virus. It argues for virus visualizations to be examined as products of processes, instruments, and socio-cultural assumptions, rather than as mere illustrations. Visualization unfolds through a series of tensions between two contending forces. The first implements normative rules and cultural narratives. The second seeks to escape them. This double tendency recurs at …
Performing the web
On October 1, 2011, following its public debut at a gallery in Toronto, the Sandbox Project made its appearance online, timidly emerging from the bursting folds of the popular Wordpress Content Management System (CMS). The Sandbox Project is an itinerant community art and activism laboratory consisting of a series of live events and a complementary online platform, both conceived as a collaborative effort of countless individuals. The project exp…
Re-mapping life
In this paper, I discuss the significance of medical visualization in relation to recent creative practices that could dismantle, or at least redress, some of its most long-lasting tenets. In fact, driven by an almost cult-like and disproportional trust in mechanization, quantities (of data), quantification and medical visualization tend to either isolate and fragment life and its constituents, reducing it to a series of discrete fragments, or to…
Beyond Mapping
In this article, I use a recent research creation project and its mobile component (the TiP lab) to emphasize the importance of regarding the city as an entanglement of sometimes evident, sometimes hidden naturecultural geographies and more-than-human encounters. While official narratives are not interested in narrating such vibrant multidimensionality, traditional cartographic practices do not seem to be able to seize them. In exploring ways to …
Uncanny Convergences
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Triage Culture
As businesses reopen following several months of lockdown, I can’t help but think of the way the pandemic has intensified and brought to the surface the persistence of inequalities. In this short essay I reflect on this persistence and on the tendency to treat them as special circumstances and as isolated news, when they are all the product of a culture based on triage, that is, a culture based on artificial scarcity that forces the most vulnerab…
All models are wrong, but some are useful
Epidemiological models have been crucial tools throughout all stages of the 2020-21 Coronavirus pandemic: using promptly available or historical data, they have studied and tried to anticipate its progression, providing valuable guidelines for public health officials, policymakers, and other medical and non-medical audiences. While useful, models are not designed to be infallible, and for this reason, they have been frequently subject to criticis…
Giving Bodies Back to Data
Giving Bodies Back to Data takes us on a fascinating journey into the history and complexities of MRI technologies. Specifically, the book emphasizes the role that aesthetics, affectivity, and craft practice play in the processes leading to the production of and the artistic responses to these technologies.The introduction presents readers with three compelling scenes that immediately grab their attention and set the tone for the entire book. In …
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works)