Week 4 : Medicine + Art

Even though I do not study professionally towards bioengineering, I know what principle was applied since my mother works for medicine. Therefore, before this week's lecture started, I expected that there would be some relationship between medicine and art. Moreover, I learned in detail how the medical innovation affects the art and how the art plays an important role in the medical technologies by taking the lecture.

Figure 1
Professor Vesna said on YouTube that medicine appeared through the art in ancient times. The anatomy of the process of making mummies has helped to understand the human body. In addition, the anatomical chart drawn by the artists has helped the development of medicine.

 Figure 2
As the technologies develop, the new medical technologies have had a good effect on the art. Casini argued that the invention of MRI improves the relationship between art and medical as well as MRI opens the way for new artistic possibilities by expressing what scientists and artists could not see visually. In addition, Orlan had expressed the body performance art to represent the plastic surgeon that helps to reach the ultimate goal of our perception of the beauty. Furthermore, Kac has created the transgenic artwork, called "GFP Bummy", that integrates the genetic study with the art, which shows the possibility of achieving the new art world.

The art has also played an important role in inventing new medical treatment techniques. Through the theory that the painting affects human emotions a lot, Gromala began to make the therapy, merging interactive art, multimedia forms, and immersive virtual reality, to help alleviate chronic pain.
 Figure 3

Like this, we are able to understand the relationship between medicine and art that we did not recognize. I hope that medicine and art continue to have a positive impact on each other so that people can live a better life.



source
1. Kac, Eduardo. "GFP Bunny." BIO ART. Ekac, n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2017. <http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html>

2. Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. Medicine pt1. Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>

3. Casini, Silvia. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts." Configurations 19.1 (2011): 73-99. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.

4. Gromala, Diane. "TEDxAmericanRiviera - Diane Gromala - Curative Powers of Wet, Raw Beauty." Dec. 7, 2011.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=cRdarMz--Pw>

5. Orlan. "Carnal Art (2001) Documentary." 13 March 2011.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1400&v=no_66MGu0Oo>

 Imagine
Figure 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk
Figure 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1400&v=no_66MGu0Oo
Figure 3 - http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html

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  1. WG2018년 4월 28일 오후 6:52

    The invention of MRI totally changes the medical treatment in our lives. So I agree with your sentence "the new medical technologies have had a good effect on the art".
    and I also think the art doesn't only represent the beauty but also improving medical techniques.
    So as you similarly mentioned above the art and medicine have the positive effects on each other.

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