Author Dr Michael R. Jackson was joined by artists with work in the book Derrick Guild and Marilène Oliver to talk about a long and intertwined history of artist's and scientist's visions of the world, how this has influenced imaging techniques and how this collaboration continues.

We had a fascinating conversation about how the images produced in art and science create parallel realities, opening representational spheres where conventions and interpretation are key to understanding. Where layering, both literal (slices in MRI scans) and historical (the interweaving of art and science), has allowed information to grow into images with culturally rich and diagnostically vital data. We sometimes think that art is subjective and science objective, when both actually construct systems in which images become meaningful in a web of overlapping relations.

Imagining Imaging is a tour de force of art historical insight and medical understanding. Author and Clinical Radiologist, Dr Michael R. Jackson, was joined by artists Derrick Guild, whose paintings are inspired by selective details from art history or the natural world and layered to create intriguing new combinations, and Marilène Oliver, who uses both new digital technologies and traditional print and sculpture to build metaphorically laden pieces based on various scanning technologies.