Artist12: Justine Cooper

Justine Cooper moves between art, medicine and science, binding the three disciplines together with her installations. She works with web design, multimedia, MRI, microscopes, Ultrasound, and DNA sequencing to create her art. Her interdisciplinary approach - like many of the other artists I've posted about - gives her a creations a fresh and unique feel, allowing her to communicate and represent new concepts in new ways.

Her RAPT I and RAPT II series, place MRI scans together, creating a 3-Dish installation:

 

 

Cooper's Living in Sim project, deemed 'mixed reality', is intended to expose the realities and flaws of the current healthcare system. She has created characters, physically represented by medical dummies, who debate and experience current medical issues, such as: failing health, mortality, malpractice and insurance.

Cooper focuses primarily on the science of the body in almost cold and detached manner, pulling apart pieces of our physical functions and examining them like what would be done in a medical dissection. She takes each piece and function and objectifies it somewhat. But she balances this with a far more warm, humanist approach - specifically, in Living in Sim. The Living in Sim project provides balance to her portfolio, in that she is taking cold, lifeless dummies and breathing life and personality into them, all the while examining the medical issues faced by regular people. Most of the rest of her works deal with taking something alive and breathing - like the human body - and representing it in the aforementioned cold and scientific manner. If nothing else, her work shows versatility in both her ability to move between art and science as well as her ability to effectively move between cold calculation and warm life/personality.