Week 4 Blog

This week’s readings were, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts.” By Casini, Silvia, “The Architecture of Life.” By Ingber, Donald E., and “The Hippocratic Oath Today.” By Tyson, Peter. The readings and video literatures connected three main concepts that surround our ever days life’s which consist of Medicine, Art, and Technology. One thing that stood out to me from The Hippocratic Oath, was the multiple versions they have, in fact that all of them had a key concept about having respect towards life and art. According to the video Medicine pt1, since the first dissection known to man, both doctors and artist have worked closely together in order to record different parts of the human body but also doing it in the form of art. Medicine and Art are both closely related due to medicine being its own subsection within art. 

“History of Anatomy.”

“Isonoe II.” Art Amy Helene

I never really noticed how interconnected the medical field was to art until last quarter. I was sitting in lecture one day learning about Polymerase Chain Reaction *PCR) which is a method many scientists and doctors use in order to make multiple copies of a specific strand of DNA. Our professor had a random slide of an art piece. She explained that it was art she made using the leftover paper stripes used in PCR. This piece of art also related to the reading “The Architecture of Life” because DNA is a building block of our own body. DNA fits perfectly under the definition of Tensegrity which is defined as “an architectural system in which structures stabilize themselves by balancing the counteracting forces of compression and tension.” (E. Ingber) 

The last experience with medical technology in relation to art was very personal. I once had a CT Scan preformed on me before I got my appendix removed. I never really thought of this situation being related to art but after reading I definitely do. My experience best correlated to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait because it was a mirror image of my own body in order to see what was going on. There is such precession within those machines to give a high-quality image that can be seen as art. Just like in the reading and Video Medicine pt3 how people were recording the use of medicine and technology as a form of art. 

“CT Scan.” Boulder Community Health

  

References 

“Isonoe II.” Art Amy Helene, www.artamyhelene.com/store/sinope.

Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts.” Configurations, vol. 19, no. 1, 2011, pp. 73–99., doi:10.1353/con.2011.0008.

“CT Scan.” Boulder Community Health, www.bch.org/Our-Services/Imaging/CT-Scan.aspx.

“History of Anatomy.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy.

Ingber, Donald E. “The Architecture of Life.” Scientific American, vol. 278, no. 1, 1998, pp. 48–57., doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0198-48.

Tyson, Peter. “The Hippocratic Oath Today.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 27 Mar. 2001, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html.

Uconlineprogram. Medicine pt1. YouTube. April 21, 2012. Length 12:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk

Uconlineprogram. Medicine pt2. YouTube. April 21, 2012. Length 6:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ

Uconlineprogram. Medicine pt3. YouTube. April 22, 2012. Length 21:19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4