This week’s topic has been by far
my favorite. All the information was so
interesting and I just wanted to learn more about the human body and medical
technologies and how it relates to art.
I have never thought of an MRI, X-ray, CAT scan, plastic surgery etc. as
art but all of it really is. It just
blew my mind when I actually started thinking about it.
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| MRI |
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| X-Ray |
One thing this week that also
caught my attention was the Visual Human Project. This project gave us cross sectional
photographs of the entire human body.
This gave everyone an accurate perspective on everything in the human
body. This shoed how big certain muscles
were and the way every organ was shaped and where they were located
exactly. This just blows my mind! I
think it is so crazy to think project happened only about twenty years
ago. Image in twenty more years what
they will be able to do. I found a
really cool video on YouTube that quickly goes trough every slice of the Visual
Human Protect.
Visual Human Project
“This
movie contains over 1800 cross-section images of a male body. To obtain these
images, the body of an executed murderer was embedded in gelatin, frozen,
sliced crosswise into more than 1800 millimeter slices, then digitally
photographed - resulting in over 15 gigabytes of data.”
Another
thing that I found so fascinating was that Body Worlds was started by Gunther
von Hagens in the 1970’s and is still has exhibitions all over the world in
major cities. I have been to Body World’s
several times and I have no idea that it has been going for so long!
I
could talk about this topic for hours, I find it so interesting that way back
when they started exploring the human body by human dissections and we have
come so far. Human bodies are not just
science but are a huge thing in the art world as well! Human bodies are just so
fascinating !
Body Worlds Vital.
Digital image. Sout Carolina State Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2013.
Deborah, and E. Mendoza. Fetus in
the Womb. Digital image. Body Worlds Bizarre Real Human
Specimen Exhibit.
N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2013.
Horizontal MRI.
Digital image. Extracting Slices from a 3-Dimensional MRI Data Set.
N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2013.
Right hand x-ray. Digital image. Fizzics.
N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2013.
"The Visible Human Project." YouTube.
N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2013.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWP2HnPSMyo&feature=youtu.be>.
Hello Paige, I found your post very relatable, especially in the first paragraph where you said that this week's topics made you realize and think more about the relationship between medical technology and art. This is exactly how I felt after reading this week's resources because I was also amazed at how art is really present in science and the medical technology that exists today. I am glad to see that someone else shares this appreciation and amazement on this correlation!
ReplyDeleteGreat Post! I was also very interested in this weeks topic. It had never occurred to me either that art and medicine could be so closely related. Great pictures found from Body works and that exhibit is very interesting to me, because it gives such a real life approach to art. Great post and I am looking forward to yours for next week!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI did not think that anatomy is related to art, but I changed my mind! Your YouTube link is really interesting. I only heard the visible human project, but I perfectly figured out now. Thank you for your material.
I found great picture with X-ray in my blog. Also you can visit web link that I put in my blog. < http://www.cultcase.com/2008/05/x-ray-photography-as-art-hidden-faces.html> I also searched the pictures for Gunther Von Hagens artwork. It was really fascinating that I realized person’s body can be the masterpiece like sculpture.
Hello Paige,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, this too I think is my favorite topic in the course so far. I already knew a little bit of the artistic applications that medical practices and technology can have, but learning more in depth about them is fascinating indeed!
I think you brought up a good point about the age of projects like the VHP and the Body Worlds exhibit. I was under the impression that a lot of these projects were only created recently, when really they have been going for at least 20 or 30 years. It reminds me how I thought the advent of plastic surgery was only a modern one, when really, it has been practiced since the time of the ancient Egyptians!
My question to you: what other projects or practices did you initially think were only recent advances, when in actuality they have been around for a long time?