Medicine + Technology + Art

         With the advancement in technology, healing through medicine has become a lot better. There are new technologies to understand better the human body showing how the human body is a piece of art. The different systems operating the body are works of art such as the nervous and circulatory systems with their complexities. They both travel throughout the body, reaching every part of it, creating a complex and complicated work of art.


        I have learned a lot about medicine, technology, and art this week from Donald E. Ingber. Ingber thinks that art inspires creativity and innovation in the science and engineering departments. He believes that art and science are not mutually exclusive but rather can inform and enhance each other. He encourages the collaboration of science, technology, and art as the creative thinking and problem-solving skills that artists develop can be valuable in scientific research and technological innovation. 



           Examples of the human body being a piece of artwork are the body’s natural mechanisms on a microscopic level and symptom data portraits. The body has multiple reactions going on at the same time which really intrigues me as my sister works with such reactions. While looking through a microscope can a new world be seen as everyone has a different code to their bodies with the same reactions. Similarly, when looking at symptom data portraits, the portrait gives off the feeling of an art piece inspired by specific diseases showing pain. It is unique in everyone would have a different portrait and description of pain but ultimately have similar experiences.











Pictures:

“Male Cardiovascular System by Sciepro/Science Photo Library.” Science Photo Gallery, https://sciencephotogallery.com/featured/92-male-cardiovascular-system-scieproscience-photo-library.html.

Hunter, Jane. “Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics.” Education Technology Solutions, 26 Mar. 2019, https://educationtechnologysolutions.com/2019/03/science-technology-engineering-arts-mathematics/.

Stem Cells : Cell Press. https://www.cell.com/pictureshow/stem-cells.


Sources:

“Moma Learning.” MoMA, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/investigating-identity/the-body-in-art/#:~:text=People%20alter%20their%20bodies%2C%20hair,bodies%20in%20their%20creative%20process.

Ingber, Donald E. The Architecture of Life. 1998.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. “Body Code.” WEHI, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1 July 2021, https://www.wehi.edu.au/body-code.

“Artist + Digital Technologist Transforming Human Health.” Virgil Wong, 28 May 2022, https://www.virgilwong.com/.

Stem Cells : Cell Press. https://www.cell.com/pictureshow/stem-cells.

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