Med + Tech + Art

Art is something that is very influential to medicine because of the fact that art has helped us understand the human body. We have always said that technology has advanced over the years, but also the same can be said about medicine. This topic really caught my eye because of the fact that I am an athlete and have constantly had x-rays, MRIs, etc. These things have saved my career because if I wasn’t able to know what was wrong with my body I could have injured myself more. This is something that keeps us safe because we can’t just open the body up and close it when we need to look and see if something is all right or not. Being able to see inside the body through technology and also being able to see it through art and understand what is in the human body is huge.

Plastic surgery has been looked at as justifiable to get in our day and age, but do people know really where it came from. Plastic surgery came about a while back before Christ and the word plastic doesn’t mean artificial, but means molded. World War 1 was what made plastic surgery a big deal because chemical bombings and stuff of that nature that doctors had to deal with such serious injuries when it came to the face of soldiers and needed to reconstruct it.

When it comes down to it, this weeks topics, has been something that has helped my life out tremendously because I wouldn’t be able to be an athlete if I didn’t know if I was healthy or not. Being able to see in my body and have doctors that know exactly what is wrong with me when I am hurt it instrumental for my athletic development. The Hippocratic Oath is “inadequate to address the realities of a medical world that has witnessed huge scientific, economic, political, and social changes, a world of legalized abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and pestilences unheard of in Hippocrates’ time (Tyson). I somewhat agree that the times have changed, but the Hippocratic Oath is something that shows the necessities in medicine that are much needed.

Vensa, Victoria. "Human Body and Medical Technology: Part 1." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>.

Vensa, Victoria. "Human Body and Medical Technology: Part 2." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ>.

Vensa, Victoria. "Human Body and Medical Technology: Part 3." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>.

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)." Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <http://www.nibib.nih.gov/science-education/science-topics/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri>.

Tyson, Peter. "The Hippocratic Oath Today." PBS. PBS, 27 Mar. 2001. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

Art and Robotics

Everyone at first recognition believed that Johannes Gutenberg was the one who invented the printing press, however, it was the Chinese that first invented the printing press in 1040. The printing press led to the assembly line production technique and this helped with education and the growth of knowledge for people in the West. The one problem that has risen with industrialization is the fact that now a days it in in our everyday life. Robots constantly do things like wash our dished drive us around and wash our clothes, this is something that had taken jobs away like new technology in the work force that takes standard citizens out of the work force because they are not needed anymore.

Walter Benjamin stated that: “the unique value of the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value”(Benjamin 136). He also suggests that art resembles economic production. I agree with his view on it because of the fact that how art has evolved in time and in a day and age now where technology and the production of robotics has played a critical role. Robots are already now so influential in our life, what is going to happen 30-40 years down the road, how much more can they be involved? “One dire prediction is that by 2030, 2 billion jobs will be lost globally to robots and software” (Francis).

In the film, “I, Robot”, the question is raised that in the future, are robots going to be our own maids and will they try and take over our planet. Technology is constantly going to improve and for us as people it is only human to try and make our lives as easy as they can. The question is if we will go to far? I can relate this idea to the fact of the film industry. In the Fast and Furious sequels, we can see how action-filled it is and these movies are always constantly moving at a fast pace. In these types of movies, the cars are constantly moving and it can distract the viewer from the cars itself. The cars are great works of art that only a certain set of viewers will actually pay attention to and when you constantly see them going at dangerous speeds and crashing them into pieces, takes our minds of the actual work of art.

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.

Vensa, Victoria. Robotics + Art Lecture. UCOnline. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2015.

Robinson, Andrew. “Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura, and Authenticity.” Ceasefire Magazine RSS. N.p., 14 June 2013. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.

Francis, Diane. “As Robots Start to Take over Retail, Will There Be Any Jobs?” New York Post. N.p., 25 Jan. 2015. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.

Vesna, Victoria. "Robotics Pt. 2." YouTube. 15 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.