Between Glass and Magnetic Fields

Between Glass and Magnetic Fields is an interactive talk, accompanying an art installation by Gregory Alliss, emerging from his time as Creator in Residence for STEAM Imaging VI: Resonant Connections through Design and Data, at the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Digital Medicine. This project combines design thinking with medical data science through glass art and immersive installations. Come along and meet the artist and scientists, to experience hands-on creative playful representation of complex Magnetic Resonance Imaging software technologies, through remote live imaging at the MR lab in Germany.

From the world's first clinical MRI scanner in Aberdeen to today's frontier research, Scotland has long defined MRI physics. German researchers at Fraunhofer MEVIS are currently pushing these boundaries further with the vendor-neutral gammaSTAR platform, eventually streamlining the rollout of cutting-edge imaging techniques into everyday clinical practice. 'Going Global' this year's festival theme seeks to highlight science 'as a shared human story of inquiry, experimentation, failure, and breakthrough', and it is this spirit that is reflected in the making process at the heart of Between Glass and Magnetic Fields and in the collaborative journey undertaken by Gregory Alliss, Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists, and school students during the STEAM Imaging VI Residency & Science Engagement project in Bremen, Germany, last November.

The exhibition is open from April 15 to 26, 2026.

Presented by The University of Edinburgh
 

STEAM Imaging VI, hosted by Fraunhofer MEVIS, Germany, in collaboration with the Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, creates a unique opportunity to explore the potential for application of creative multi- and transdisciplinary approaches in digital medicine. The collaboration involves the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen and the Oberschule am Waller Ring in Bremen, supported by Ars Electronica, Austria.