Week 4 - Medicine + Technology + Art

It was very interesting in the professors video lecture learning about the way the human body has been studied and where the results of these studies have lead. for the first art of the lecture we learned about human dissection and anatomy. Many artist and sciences have studied the body throughout history to have a better understand of how and what the body is capable of. drawing figures of the body using skeletons and cadavers of living human body is a common practice among artists. An example that was used of how anatomy and art exist together is the famous BODIES exhibit. The artist used preservatives to making sculptures of once living forms in a way the people have never seen the inside of a human body before. this is a perfect segway to the part of the lecture about plastic surgery and robotics and technology. i love the artist Orlan and her live plastic surgery art piece. her attention to detail for her artistry is great. using famous paintings as a reference to the surgeries shes getting to everyone in the room being dressed in designer outfits to the philosophical literature she reads aloud and to the actually physical changes she is making to her body.

The entire time i was watching the lectures and reading the articles i kept think about people are part of the world of bio hacking or body hacking. essentially people use different technologies and incorporate them into there bodies to become in a way cyborgs. people sometimes put magnetic in there ears to have built in speakers or wifi implants to monitor there vitals, the possibilities are limitless. the apple watches and fitbits we all use are typical but once it is attached to our bodies that open a whole new world. the artist below was born color blind and uses a implant antenna to hear color. watch below.


Artist Dustin yelin uses layers of painted glass to crate abstract paintings of anatomy of humans. this reminded me of the part of the lecture about MRIs and the human body project where they took images of the individual slices of the human body. Yelin began by studying the human anatomy and creating bodies inside of resin. fearing his health from resin fumes he moved to panels of glass. This process of painting individual glass panels reminded me so much of mri imaging and how it creates a body and i could help but see a direct connection between the two.










sources:

Cborkhataria. YouTube. YouTube, 17 Apr. 2016. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOw5syFSK-8

 TEDtalksDirector. YouTube. YouTube, 15 Sept. 2015. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN820hIQ17Q

"Dustin Yellin." Psychogeographies | Dustin Yellin. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.  

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/Ep0M2bOM9Tk.” Lecture. Medicine pt1 . Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>.

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/FIX-9mXd3Y4.” Lecture. Medicine pt3. Youtube, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>. 

 Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/psjnQarHOqQ.” Lecture. Medicine pt2 . Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ>.

Images:
http://www.creative-mapping.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Artist-Orlan-Operation-Reussie-Creative-Mapping-667x1024.jpg

 http://dustinyellin.com/img/works/psychogeographies/psychogeography_67.jpg

 https://tedideas.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/dy_ted_2-0341.jpg?w=770&h=433

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