The upcoming Journées Francophones de Radiologie (JFR) annual meeting will host an art installation called "First Intimacy of Being" created by French artist Ikse Maître. The conference begins on 3 October in Paris.
In a statement, Maître wrote that "[art] and science implicitly draw on the fundamental human capacities required by the creative processes of all research," and that "[medical] imaging extends our perception to depth, and we can probe and quantify the human body in all dimensions of space and time."
Maître's work "explores the boundaries between art and science, notably within the collective Les Vues de l'esprit," the organizers of JFR said. He founded Le SAS, a group dedicated to the research, design, and dissemination of art-science works, in 2014, and since 2015 has been in residency at the Institut d'Astronomie Spatiale and the Université Paris-Saclay.
At the meeting, there will be a special session called "Medical imaging, self-image" on 3 October, as well as opportunities to meet Maître that day and on 4 October.
