galenlDESMA9

This week, I learned and understood the connection between medicine technology and art. In the lecture, Dr. Vesna provides many examples where renowned artists perform with the tools of medicine technology. One of that artist is ORLAN, and her art did render uncomfortable when I tried to understand the overall purpose. Though I believe it is brave for her to bring gender issues by describing her process as one that focused on the stories of different women into the limelight with her art form.  ORLAN before the cosmetic surgery operation she broadcast to galleries worldwide.  Photograph: Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock To me, ORLAN's art used medicine technology for physical alterations. It is amazing to learn that medicine technology could also work for mental and sensory satisfaction as described by Diana Gromala, with virtual reality, sensory information in the form of art can act as a distraction to help alleviate pain. MRI Brain Scan Resutls In Different Views P...

Cutie C-3PO from Star Wars In this week, I learned about the progression of robotics and art with time. Dr. Vesna mentioned that art often does not receive enough credit for the advancements in robotics when robots themselves were a product of artistic vision and reaction to the industrial revolution (Vesna 2018). The time era that started the movement of bringing robotics into many lives is the industrial revolution and up to this date, there is the constant debate over uniqueness with mechanical production. As Walter Benjamin mentions in his book, “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be”(Benjamin 2005). Through Walter’s artistic lens, he puts mechanical production in a negative light. I’d like to comment that I do agree that the uniqueness of manufactured goods is put aside, but I think the compromise is a good one bec...

Bill Fontana's artistic vision In this presentation, Bill Fontana proposes his vision of art and how it was during certain state of minds, or moments, when he feels musical, that sounds around him also becomes musical (Fontana 1978). As a science student, I initially imagined that being like my ‘Aha! moment’, but as his presentation went on, it changed. Fort Mason in San Francisco, a presentation slide from Bill Fontana One of Fontana’s early project took place in San Francisco, which is also my home! He recorded the sounds of fog horns at Fort Mason, in San Francisco. In this project, Fontana approaches the sounds of the fog horns as a structure that allows sound to bring together the real time between different spaces. During the presentation, I felt conflicted because I was not sure how real time and different spaces could be connected through sound, since sound travelled at a set speed, 343 meters per second, people at different locations would e...