BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260416T004720CEST-0163KbRR6n@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260415T224720Z DESCRIPTION:\n Hollywood and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have faced similar challenges in visually representing microscopic threat s to the human body. The iconic sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage (1966) and th e ubiquitous 2019 illustration of COVID-19 both render elusive yet life-th reatening ailments. \n\n\n The Academy Award-winning Fantastic Voyage\, di rected by Richard Fleischer\, is a landmark for its depiction of the body and its interior. Starring Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence\, Fantastic V oyage imagines a future in which medical technicians literally enter the b ody to treat illness\; they are shrunk and injected into a dying scientist who knows Cold War military secrets\, in order to annihilate a blood clot situated in an inoperable area. Nanorobots and laparoscopic cameras can n ow enter these inner realms\, so Fantastic Voyage remains intriguing for t he prescience of its cinematic vision. Medical illustration\, like special effects\, can present an aestheticized image with the unique capacity to capture the imagination\, as well as to inform and educate. In 2020 the sp iky blob—the illustration of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19—has become an iconic image associated with the current pandemic\, more preval ent and provocative than any direct technological visualization of the vir us. \n\n\n On June 25\, Museum of the Moving Image’s Science on Screen ser ies is thrilled to welcome CDC medical illustrator Alissa Eckert\, the per son responsible for creating the image of the spiky blob\, for a conversat ion and Q&\;A\, including clips and images\, with science and technolog y scholar and author David Serlin (Imagining Illness: Public Health and Vi sual Culture). The conversation will consider illustration and visualizati on\, public education and accessibility\, and the development of the image of COVID-19. \n\n\n In advance of the conversation\, we encourage you to watch Fantastic Voyage\, which can be rented from these platforms. View tr ailer. \n \n\n\n Watch the live conversation on YouTube here. \n\n\n While this event is free\, we hope you will consider supporting the Museum with a donation. Staff are working hard to fulfill our mission via remote prog ramming. This comes with opportunities to experiment but also profound cha llenges. Your support is critical to ensure our work remains vital and vis ible to a broad public. Suggested donation: $10. \;Donate here. \n\n\n About the participants: \n\n\n Alissa Eckert is a medical illustrator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She created the illu stration of the novel coronavirus\, together with colleague Dan Higgins. S he has been at the CDC for 14 years\, working on health information\, educ ation\, and emergency response illustrations including for Ebola\, cholera \, gonorrhea\, Zika\, measles\, and more. Alissa Eckert has a bachelor’s d egree in scientific illustration from the University of Georgia and a Mast er of Science in medical illustration from the Medical College of Georgia. \n\n\n David Serlin is Associate Professor of Communication and Science S tudies at UC San Diego. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. Professor Serlin’s books include Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (Univer sity of Minnesota Press\, 2010) and Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press\, 2004). He is an editor-a t-large for Cabinet magazine and a founding editor of the online journal C atalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience. \n \n DTSTART:20200625T200000 DTEND:20200625T210000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image SUMMARY:Fantastic Voyage and Representing COVID-19 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR