(The Netherlands, 2020)
Augmented Reality

Location: virtual environment (part of AR city tour)

The Anatomy Lesson presents specimens of the future represented on dissection tables of a not too distantly imagined anatomy lesson. Like current procedures learned through working with cadaverous or modelled material, this installation shows the imagined surgeries that deal with the onset of new enhancement technologies. With advancements in biomedical and healthcare technologies the body is increasingly considered a site of change. Yet the exciting prospect of bodily advancement and enhancement -including digital twins- is rarely represented from the view of the professional practitioner who will have to implement or maintain this technology. In a quasi-simulation of future medicine, the AR version of the installation invites the audience to probe futuristically modified body parts in order to consider how to prepare for procedures such as removing a cyst that has developed on a bionic eye implant, or cleaning a nanoparticle filter from the trachea.

Audience: All ages
Accessible for people with hearing impairments.

AFK, The Waag Society
Mediamatic
Vrij University
Transtechnology research
CogNovo