Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 14, 2003|Volume 31, Number 18

Yale physician contributes to artist's
show linking art and science

Dr. Leonard Milstone, associate clinical professor of dermatology, has collaborated with local artist Lois Goglia on a project, currently on exhibit, that melds art and medicine.

Goglia has created a series of 18 collages created from X-ray film that chronicle the beginning of life from the growth of individual cells in petri dishes to the development of a full-term fetus. Titled "Genesis," her creation reframes X-ray film as an art image. It is currently on view at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The two will talk about their collaboration on Wednesday, Feb. 19, noon-1 p.m. at the museum, which is located at 900 Lafayette Blvd. The event is free and open to the public.

Milstone, who had seen Goglia's work in another exhibition, furnished the artist with X-ray films that had been exposed to radioactive DNA when placed adjacent to petri dishes covered with bacteria. He also supplied Goglia with linear images of DNA sequence gels that are used in "Genesis," and some of his hand-scrawled notes have also been incorporated into the work.

Goglia says the project is a distillation of her ideas over the past 18 years exploring the relationship between art, science and the metaphysical. "Cloning, gene mapping and altering, organ transplants and medical protocols give physicians the potential to control survival and death," she says. In addition to the issues raised by controlling gene destiny, her project, Goglia says, evokes the conflict inherent in electromagnetic radiation and DNA sequencing -- particularly how radioactive materials might be used in weapons of mass destruction and how information from sequencing gels may provide terrorists with the knowledge to produce lethal biological threats, including anthrax and smallpox.

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