Visible Man, 2007-2009
Pierre-Philippe Freymond & Florence Vuilleumier
228 cm x 82 cm x 94 cm, laser engraved drawings on plexiglas, chromed steel.
Forty-one sections selected to reconstruct the body which was in 1994 used to build the Visible Human Project Atlas, the first virtual human body in three dimensions. This project turned to a milestone in the history of the human body's representation, providing for instance the first effective brain digital representations in neurology. To create this atlas, scientists used the body of the convicted named Joseph Paul Jernigan, executed by injection in Texas in 1993. His body was cut in 1878 slices of 1 mm and completely digitized.