Artificial heart at the meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs held in Atlantic City in March 1961. At that meeting, Liotta described the implantation of three types of orthotopic (inside the pericardial sac) TAHs in dogs, each of which used a different source of external energy: an implantable electric motor, an implantable rotating pump with an external electric motor, and a pneumatic pump. In 1964, the National Institutes of Health started the Artificial Heart Program, with the goal of putting a man-made heart into a human by the end of the decade. The purpose of the program was to
Jeanne Liotta to discover what their world is made of and what they think about it - to observe and take notes and reflect upon - that's our jobs as human beings somehow, that's what I feel like I'm doing when I make things. It's just my thinking." The artist's films have been shown at several film exhibitions, including: In 2008 Liotta won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival for her film "Observando el cielo". Liotta's works can be found in a number of public institutions, including: Jeanne Liotta Jeanne Liotta (born 1960) is an American visual artist who is