FTP_Formless_anatomy created by Eugene Thacker

Ftp_formless_anatomy is a counter-anatomical response to the National
Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, presented as an online
archival work featuring cut-up images of the male and female body
from the perspective of technique and technology. Using software
applications such as Photoshop, morphing programs, and .GIF Builder,
the material was re-assembled into a Web-database structure.
The viewer naviagtes through the interface and experiences images
of anatomical cross-sections, samples of online surgeries, 3-D modeling
of organs and other images. These images construct and re-animate
the forms of a digital-anatomical body. How is this counter-anatomical?
All anatomical image files in the "FORMLESS" folder are appropriated
images which have been modified using digital imaging and animation
software. They are no longer a true replication of our own bodies, they
have been processed and altered and begin to reveal "the objectification
of the body by the sciences." Thacker believes that, " formless anatomy
attempts to do two things: (1) to ask how the body has been understood
within scientific-anatomical knowledge paradigms in the west, and (2) to
ask whether there are other means of knowing the body situated within
and not outside of contemporary technoscience."