Week 5: Midterm Project

Week 4: Medtech + Art

I am particularly interested by the rapid evolution of technology in the medical field because of how much technology influences every aspect of our lives – but this week I enjoyed learning about where the field of medicine originated. I found that reading the Hippocratic Oath was interesting because of how it has changed over the years. In the original oath, its contents were generally based off of respecting the body, the patient, and the art form that is medicine – encouraging those who have this knowledge to share it with others. It is interesting how the field of medicine has changed since then, in that it is seen as separate from art, and the knowledge of medicine has been restricted to those who are intelligent enough to survive medical school as well as have the monetary stability to afford it. To me, this modern view of medicine does not seem to coincide with the original standards it was founded on as seen in The Hippocratic Oath. ...

Event #2

For my second event, I attended the Chemical Entanglements Symposium and had the opportunity to hear from multiple female speakers about different hazards, and unknown truths about the way we interact with chemicals on a day to day basis. My favorite lecturer of the day was Liza Grandia, who’s presentation was titled, “Sickly Green: a parable of carpet and EPA”. Her presentation basically summed up all of the negative health effects that come from carpet installation, carpet maintenance, and the all-around existence of it. When she first mentioned this, I thought the idea of it to be pretty funny and was initially skeptical. However, she made an increasingly enticing argument with examples from her own life that made her case hard to ignore. Grandia gave some astounding statistics regarding the negative health effects of carpet. There have been multiple instances of people in concentrated areas (ie. Shared work environments) developing cancer with ...

Week 9: Space + Art

This week, I found the connection between Space and Art to be significantly more obvious than the topics that have been introduced in the past few weeks. As mentioned in the lecture videos, throughout history, from the earliest civilizations all the way up until now, we as a human race have been intrigued and curious about space. This includes the sky, the stars, the planets, and its mysterious and unknown nature. The idea of the unknown is enough to motivate scientists to learn more, and also acts as a medium of inspiration for artists. You can see the inspiration it has given artists in several different areas especially through the films and television shows that have been created from the pure imagination of what space, or even the future of the human race may look like. In the Lecture part 6 video, Professor Vesna introduced examples such as Star Trek and The Jetsons, which at first glance seem to be un...

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