Conferences
Association for Medical Education in Europe
24-28 August, 2019. Austria Centre, Vienna, Austria.
Short Communication: Can a collaborative art-anatomy educational environment encourage creative thinking and learning skills? Krisztina Valter, Lillian Smyth, Bethany Lincoln, Alexandra Webb.
19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists
9-11 August, 2019. Excel London, UK.
Symposium: Anatomical sciences: a nexus for integrating medical education with the humanities and promoting humanism. Krisztina Valter, Alexandra Webb, Nalini Pather, Sabine Hildebrandt, Joyce El-Haddad, Goran Strikalj, Andrea Oxley da Rocha, Nirusha Lachman, Wojciech Pawlina, Min Suk Chung, Peter Abrahams.
13th ANZACA Conference ‘Artful Anatomy’
4-6 December, 2016. Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Dr Webb and Dr Valter organised and hosted this conference attended by over 100 international delegates. Inspired by the success of the Exquisite Corpse course, the conference was titled ‘Artful Anatomy’. Two international keynote speakers representing art and anatomy, respectively, contributed inspiring presentations and workshops. Alex, Krisztina and Elisa also coordinated and contributed to an art and anatomy symposium with national and international colleagues.
Workshops
ANU Gender Institute Seminar Series
9, 16 and 23 October 2020. ANU Medical School, Canberra, Australia. Workshops: Imperfect Bodies of Research. Lillian Smyth, Elisa Crossing, Krisztina Valter, Alexandra Webb.
19th Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists
9-11 August, 2019. Excel, London, UK.
Symposium: The hand, the eye and the mind: multisensory approaches to learning anatomy using visual arts. Alexandra Webb, Krisztina Valter, Elisa Crossing, Iain Keenan, Leonard Shapiro, Dora Reglodi.
Frankenstein 2018: Two Hundred Years of Monsters
12‐15 September, 2018. The Australian National University and the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.
Exquisite Corpse Creative Workshop, facilitated by Elisa Crossing and Alexandra Webb. ANU School of Art and Design.
Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools 2017 Conference 28-29 September 2017. ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra, Australia. Exquisite Corpse: A contemporary marriage of art and anatomy. Elisa Crossing
Presentations
ANU Lunch Vox #5 – Productive Partnerships: Co-construction and collaborations in education 3 June 2021 Alexandra Webb
Collaborations
Artist Residency
Joshua Sleeman-Taylor (2019)
Joshua Sleeman-Taylor undertook a 3-month residency at the Medical School working with Associate Professor Alexandra Webb and Associate Professor Krisztina Valter. He has exhibited the work from this residency at Connections Part 2, CSIRO Discovery Centre, 31 July to 6 September 2019. Artist prints generously donated by Joshua are displayed in the Medical School.
ANU Vice Chancellor’s College Artists Fellowship Scheme
Anna Madeleine (2016)
Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach collaborated with Associate Professor Alexandra Webb and Associate Professor Krisztina Valter to research how animation and interactivity can create a new way to experience anatomy. The project explored medical imaging technologies such as computed tomography (CT) and x-ray, with the aim of creating an interactive installation that incorporates hand-drawn stop animations of various parts of the body that change shape, form, scale and motion in response to interaction from the viewer.
Anna created a series of four 360° virtual reality videos and a projection installation
- Raupach, A, Webb, A & Valter, K 2017, Eclipse.
- Raupach, A, Webb, A & Valter, K 2017, MRIs.
- Raupach, A, Webb, A & Valter, K 2017, Swimming.
- Raupach, A, Webb, A & Valter, K 2017, Vital Organs.
- Raupach, A, Webb, A & Valter, K 2017, Xrays.
Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme (VCCAFS) 2016
Exhibition February 15 – 25, 2017 – Exhibition Catalogue
Liz Coats (2015)
In 2015, Dr Liz Coats collaborated with Associate Professor Krisztina Valter in an exploration of the physiology and function of colour vision. Layered transparent and semi-transparent colour arrays in painting, can appear to shift in and out of visual focus and vary in intensity and hue. Liz related these effects to the known physiology of vision, while seeking out language that accords with an artist’s direct experience. Colour abstraction was approached as an organic process of discovery, in which choices made during construction associate with perceptual depth in the colour field.
Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme (VCCAFS) 2015.
Exhibition February 17 – 27, 2016 – Exhibition Catalogue
Shadow Light a. & b., 2015 acrylic on board each painting: each painting: 60 x 50 cm.
Awards & Grants
ANU Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence 2020: Dr Krisztina Valter, Elissa Crossing, Dr Alexandra Webb 2020 Awards Program
ANU Gender Institute grants 2019: Dr Lillian Smyth, Elissa Crossing, Dr Krisztina Valter, Dr Alexandra Webb
ANU Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme 2016: Dr Anna Raupach, Dr Alexandra Webb, Dr Krisztina Valter
ANU Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme 2015: Dr Liz Coats, Dr Krisztina Valter