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       Bioart allows artists to express their creativity through transforming organisms into artworks using biological techniques. From Professor Vesna’s series of videos about the various contributions of bioartists including Joe Davis and Adam Zarestky, one can confidently say that biological technologies have helped increase the public attention in regards to art (Vesna). This is because bioart can be representative of the appreciation of artists’ infinite creativity or it can be representative of the controversy between the scientific community and the artistic community. Joe Davis's audiomicroscope to record audio frequency signature of microorganisms https://www.elsevier.com/connect/creating-art-with-genes-and-bacteria             SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory in Australia, allowing artists to have a place to be engaged in science. The fact that it is the first official group to work on bi...

         I was interested in attending this event because I am curious to find out about the kind of research that a social scientist focuses on as I have only been exposed to research of scientists in neuropsychology and biochemistry. Clemence Pinel, a social scientist of bioscience and biomedicine at King’s College London, presented on her research in answering the question: “what do the environment and the epigenetics allow labs to do?” (Pinel). Throughout her presentation, she elaborated that collaboration, mobility, and profitability are avenues that will allow for the expansion of epigenetic research. She was able to determine these three avenues through extensive research about the influence of the environment on epigenetics. For example, she discovered that the collaboration of laboratory materials and data between two laboratories has lead to their success of proposing a biomarker that helps identify chronic back pain to large pharmaceutical companies ...

The advances of medical technology owe much to art, from teaching about medicine, appreciating the human body, to optimizing medical equipments. Art is essential in educating health professionals because visually understanding the human body is imperative to treat patients. Like Professor Vesna said in lecture part 1, artists play a critical role in documenting the anatomy of the body, allowing health professional students to learn the external and internal anatomical structures before working with living human beings. One of the today's most advanced educational tool is Anatomage, an interactive dissection table that I know is used in dental anatomy classes and could be used in medical school classes as well. I believe that significant artistic elements were incorporated in the creation of Anatomage in order to make this advanced creation to be highly informative yet user friendly. Although learning anatomy is a challenge, the interactiveness offered by Anatomage shows that art ...

Space shuttle repurposed For my first event, I went to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Although the museum appeared small from the outside, it contained artworks, reclics, and creations across different time periods that sparked my curiosities. The theme of each exhibit was mysterious as it was a challenge for me to create a category for it because compare to larger museums, there is always a title/name for each of its exhibits. There were two exhibits that caught my attention. First, I was amazed by the exhibit where I could see a mosaic depicting a bouquet of flowers when viewing through a microscope. Relating to week 1 materials of two cultures, this creation is representative of the third culture because the creator utilized both science and art to construct his mosaic. In addition, it made me questioned the definition of an artist: can scientists be artists and can artists be scientists? Although I am not too sure of the answer, I think that artists and scienti...

 Realtime hologram of a live concert   Technology and art have a dynamic relationship, inspiring one another. Commonly, each field is perceived to advance the other such as in the advancement of Pixar animation. However, when analyzing their influence on human knowledge throughout history, I find that while technology and art had expanded knowledge in the past, they have limited our knowledge in the presence. In lecture, Professor Vesna highlighted the importance of the printing press, pertaining to its contribution to novel artistic approaches in the Renaissance and to the expansion of scientific knowledge such as the scientific methods. It is apparent that inventions from the past have positively contributed to our intelligence. However, when analyzing the use of technology today, its impact on human knowledge appears to be contrary to its impact in the past. http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=469 In the paper, ...