Week 4 Medicine + Technology + Art

-

    Before viewing this week's material I had honestly never seen medical technology in connection with artists. I just hadn’t really thought about it. After reviewing this week's material I can say I became very intrigued with some of these artists. Specifically, I liked Virgil Wong's work. In his ted talk he talks about how he felt disappointed when his mother got sick and he wasn’t able to help because he didn't attend medical school like his parents wanted him to. His mother said “ Medicine helps us live longer lives but art is about how we live.”


     Virgil Wong with his artistic and technological expertise was able to  help co-create the Medical Avatar. The medical avatar is a state of the art visualization tool for patients to reduce costs and improve outcomes. The medical avatar helps visualize medical images of patients. One of the big problems with modern medicine is that unless people are doing regular checkups a lot of sicknesses can go under the radar. With the medical avatar people can regularly be up to date with their health which can help prevent certain sickness from advancing. This can completely change the way people go about their health. Virgil Wong may not have gone to medical school but I would argue that his work is just as important as modern medicine is. With art playing a big factor in medical technology the potential is endless.



Sources

Images

1) “Medical Technology and Art Make a Wonderful Match!” Ars Electronica Blog, https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2017/06/21/medizintechnik-und-kunst/.

2) Avatar, Medical. “Best of Ted: Art + Visualization at the Heart of Human-Centric Healthcare (Medical Avatar, Virgil Wong).” Vimeo, 5 June 2020, https://vimeo.com/67115737?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=17872498.

3) “See a Healthier You.” Medical Avatar 3D Healthy Selfie and the Health Time Machine, https://medicalavatar.com/.\

Other Sources 

1) “Artist + Digital Technologist Transforming Human Health.” Virgil Wong, 3 Apr. 2022, https://www.virgilwong.com/.

2) Define_me, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)69910-8/fulltext.

3) “Emily Watson: Metal & Enamel Jewelry: Home Page.” Emily Watson | Metal & Enamel Jewelry | Home Page, http://www.metalemily.com/.

4) BY: George Szasz. “The Art of Medicine, and Modern Technology.” -, 9 May 2018, https://bcmj.org/blog/art-medicine-and-modern-technology.

5) “Art of Life When Medtech Meets Art.” MedTech Europe, 25 Oct. 2018, https://www.medtecheurope.org/news-and-events/news/art-of-life-when-medtech-meets-art/.












Comments

  1. Shyam Patel Desma 9April 25, 2022 at 12:48 AM

    Really enjoyed reading your post! I also specifically enjoyed Virgil Wong's work and found it to be very interesting. The medical avatar is something that is so groundbreaking because it the impact it has had and will continue to have it massive. That is why your point about Wong's work being just as impactful for medicine even though he did not attend medical school is very accurate.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Event 2

-
Image
       The event I chose to attend was hosted by Jessica Irish. During her presentation she shows and talks about her short documentary film The Moral Plastik.  It's a film talking about one of the biggest active crises , the plastic crisis. When the documentary began my initial reactions were on how sophisticated everything was. The world play and knowledge being thrown help elevate the quality of the film.      To really touch the audience the main approach Ms Irish uses  in her documentary is an emotional one. She does include some statistics to back up her claim but she mainly focuses on using pathos. She talks about her daughter, mother and grandmother and how this problem has potentially affected their lives.  She talks about the lives of the animals and explains how sad it is that their lives are being taken away from these plastics. She also mentions how new industry plants are taking over pieces of land that many consider ...
Read more

Event 3

-
Image
            For this event I went to a color light motion by Toni Dove. Toni Dove essentially creates hybrid performance, installation and screen-based art that incorporates  film, game or instrument-based interaction with experimental theater. I was relatively new to this as I had never really seen any color light motion projects before. But I did find them to be quite unique and enjoyable. During the course of the  presentation Dove showed  different projects. The first project that she showed was a show called the lasso. These yellow lights were moving around everywhere while a blue sculpture was there in the background.  It demonstrated a thing called an  uncanny bell where the motion based sculpture looks almost like a human.      The next project she showed off was a show called Lucid Possession. This one was probably my favorite one out of all the ones shown. During the show in Brooklyn the tvs turn off an...
Read more