University of Central Florida STARS Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019 2008 Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, And Love On The Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up Lynn Koller University of Central Florida Part of the Medical Education Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019 by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. STARS Citation Koller, Lynn, "Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, And Love On The Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019. 3799. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/3799 GREEN CHAIRS, FICTIONAL PHALLUSES, INFILTRATION, AND LOVE ON THE ROCKS: MEDICAL IMAGING ARTIFACTS BLOWN UP by LYNN KOLLER B.A. University of Central Florida, 1995 M.A. University of Central Florida, 2004 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English: Texts and Technology in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Summer Term 2008 Major Professor: Melody Bowdon Copyright 2008 © Lynn Koller ii iii ABSTRACT This text outlines and applies a methodology for deciphering problems and producing new information by analyzing the artifacts produced by medical imaging technologies – text and images – using practices gleaned from Surrealists, semiologists, and visual artists, emphasizing its own form as being the product of the apparatuses that produce it and therefore untrustworthy.