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.
My knowledge of medical technologies in relation to artist's projects first begins with Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings of The Mechanics of Man. These early drawings of the late 1400s were my first knowledge of art and medicine connecting. These drawings however, weren't published until years later. In my opinion, if Da Vinci would've made his work public immediately his art would've led to an earlier inovation in anatomical science and our medical feild would be even more advanced today. His art was among the first depiction of what human anatomy looks like internally. This to me is an impressive example of how art furthered medicine.
Sources
1. http://virgilwong.com
2. http://virgilwong.com/virgils-ted-talk-the-medical-avatar/
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. http://virgilwong.com
2. http://virgilwong.com/virgils-ted-talk-the-medical-avatar/
Jenna, I really liked your commentary about how people can connect to other people who suffer from similar health problems through an app. You did a great job of using examples to show how medicine, technology, and art are connected.
ReplyDeleteI like your example of Da Vinci's Mechanics of Man. I also agree that it would have been interesting to see the result of Da Vinci's discoveries about human anatomy earlier than it actually came out. Would we be even more advanced medically? Great question and blog!
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