Anja Johansen

PhD project

The body, remediated. Scientific images of the body in art and popular science. (NFR, KULVER 2010-2014)

The topic for this project is how scientific images and visualisations of the human body are used and produced for exhibitions and events within the contexts of art and popular science. With theoretical perspectives and analytical strategies from the fields of aesthetics and visual culture studies I want to examine in what way the values of scientific images and technologies are negotiated and possibly transformed when used for different purposes and in different contexts, ie. the visual discourses of art and popular science.

The project is part of Inside out. New Images and Imaginations of the Body, led by Prof. Merete Lie.

Research interests

Visual culture of science and medicine, Aesthetics, Contemporary art, Politics and culture of displays/exhibitions

Publications and paper presentations

The sublime aesthetics of the cell. Paper presented at Visualization in the Age of Computerization, Oxford, March 25th-26th, 2011

Seeing is believing? On the evidential nature of scientific images. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Norwegian Association of Media Researchers, Ålesund, October 27th-28th, 2010

Stedbundne minner – om Frøydis Lindéns prosjekt "Hvor kommer du fra?". (Memories related to place. A presentation of Frøydis Linden´s art project "Where do you come from?") Seminar presentation at the seminar Contemporary Art, Geography and Home; Department of Geography, Trondheim, March 4th, 2008

Generator: ni kunstinngrep i Trondheims offentlige rom. (Generator – 9 public art installations in Trondheim) Edited by Kristin Mandt Heim, Solveig Lønmo and Anja Johansen. Trondheim: Generator 2008 (ISBN 978-82-997847-0-2) 201 p. 2008

Den postmoderne kroppen - mellom mytologi og teknologi (The postmodern body – between mythology and technology), Master thesis supervised by Associate Professor Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007

Når estetikk og politikk møtes - resepsjonen av tre skulpturer fra Skulpturlandskap Nordland. (When aesthetics and politics meet – the reception of three sculpture from Artscape Nordland) M : tidsskrift for kunst- og medieforskning 2007 (1)

Tanken og fenomenene. (Thought and phenomena.) M : tidsskrift for kunst- og medieforskning 2006 (1) p. 6-11