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Papilloma
Virus, Third Edition,
1990
A computer generated
image of the Papilloma virus, which can be spread by sexual contact.
When left untreated, this virus can cause several kinds of cancer,
including cervical and breast cancer. The background is a mammogram
of a woman who died of breast cancer. The cancer is seen as a
black spot to the lower right.
Credits:
Stephan Meyers, and Ellen
Sandor, (art)n Laboratory
Donna Cox, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin, Electronic Visualization Lab, School
of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago
Media:
PHSCologram rendering output to Cibachrome film, mounted on plexiglas
Software: Proprietary
Exhibitions:
- SIGGRAPH '92 Chicago
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field,
CA
- Computer Museum, Boston, MA
- Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago,
IL
- Images du Futur '92 Montréal
- Feature, New York, NY
- Carnegie-Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh,
PA
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington
D.C.
Literature:
- Science in Depth catalogue, NASA Ames,
Computer Musuem & Museum of Science and Industry
- NASA Ames Science in Depth video documentary
- "FOSCOLOGRAMMI" (article),
fotografare, October 1989, pp. 86-87
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