Week4: Medicine+ Arts

       Because both of my parents work in the pharmacy field, I always held an impression that MedTech are distantly separated from arts. However, this weeks's assignment changed my understanding of correlation with MedTech and arts.

        Currently, everyone seems to confuse about the relationship of MedTech and arts, when they encounter this theme on their first time. As Virgil Wong states medicine helps us live longer lives and arts is about why we live (para. 4), MedTech and arts enable each other to develop in diverse ways. MedTech makes humans' "INSIDE" body visible and how brain wave interaction works in a microscopic level. In return, arts advances the clarity of X-ray machines and medical apparatus. 
          Furthermore, MedTech itself can be used to be a part of arts. David Cronenberg employs the horror of humans towards intangible transformation, which the slow fusion of humans and fly becomes the key factor in this movie (Beny para. 5.) Also, Professor Vesna mentions that for artists, using plastic surgery to sculpt themselves and comment on society. Plastic surgery, therefore, represents the way of performance itself (Video 3.) 
         MedTech provides advanced techniques for injured artists to perform their artist talents or pursue their daily life. Artificial limbs allows more people to return their stages after the accidents. Barker shows an example that one ballerina continues her career after car accident and considers amputation of a limb is not a synonym of death, but rather the restoration of a body (para. 2.) In addition, plastic surgery helps disfigured people to back to the normal lives, which not comes from the vanity but from necessity as Meyer states(para. 3.)   
 Citation:
Barker, Alice. “When MedTech Meets Art.” This Is MedTech, www.thisismedtech.com/when-                     medtech-meets-art/.
Beny, Duff. “Looking Back at David Cronenberg's The Fly.” Den of Geek, 19 Nov. 2012,                             www.denofgeek.com/movies/23979/looking-back-at-david-cronenbergs-the-fly
Meyer, Mari, and Emmelie van den Wall Bake. “The Photos of the First Plastic Surgery Patients Hint at How Desperate You Had to Be.” Tonic, VICE, 17 Sept. 2018, tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nz4g/disfigured-wwi-vets-were-the-first-plastic-surgery-patients.
Vesna, Victoria. "Medicine Parts 1-3." Lecture. Web. 25 April 2019.
Wong, Virgil. “Art Exhibited in Galleries and Museums around the World.” Art. N.p., 2012. Web. 26            Oct. 2012. http://virgilwong.com/art/.

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