Medicine, Technology, and Art The Material that most influenced my understanding of this topic was the TED Talk by Virgil Wong. Virgil is an artist, technologist, and a researcher and he is using his art to help people's health. We wouldve never thought that art could in fact help people's health, but it does in Virgil's Medical Avatar LLC. I found it interesting in his TED talk how he revealed that people can connect to other people who suffer from similar health problems through this design app that monitors people's health. I feel like this is the most interesting side of how art and medicine can connect in technology, because human relations can be benefited through this connection. For example, war veterans who suffer from similar injuries that Virgil mentioned. 1-alchemy.jpg community-health-1500x938.jpg My knowledge of medical technologies in relation to artist's projects first begins with Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings of The Mechanics of Man. T...