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 Medical Technologies + Art The mechanics of a bicep contraction is art-like, causing changes in multiple muscles of the arm, shoulder, and back. As a Student Athletic Trainer, I spend a lot of time studying the human body including how it changes through movement and injuries. Recently, I've spent more time considering how observing the art of the human body influences my understanding of the science.  Famous artist and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci, helped me see that no study of anatomy is complete without the art of dissection. His dissections and illustrations served as a large development in understanding anatomy by providing fundamental insights into the human body, documenting previously unknown characteristics for study as well as for artistic appreciation. His work, which is still used today in art and medicine, emphasizes the art in a surgeon's blade, and the science in a sculptor's chisel. Illustration of Fetus by Leonardo da Vinci The more I think about it, the m...

Cosmological Events On Friday April 21st, I attended the event Cosmological Elements, an exhibition that showcased projects from many artists centering cosmological themes. It was initiated by Angel An and curated by Claudia Schnugg and Iris Long. Schnugg described cosmology as the "study of the world", an area of study that unites the disciplines of science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, nature and beliefs.  Much like Brunelleschi, each artist used a variety of art forms, from displaying the elements of the earth to using "invisible light" or UV to generate images, all to tell a story of the cosmological elements that demonstrate their connection to us.  I was specially drawn to two of the exhibits, the first of which was Daniela Brill Estrada's Celestial Bodies , which she used to highlight the presence of natural elements in the human body. She classified and displayed multiple elements in jars to illustrate that all people and things are born of th...

Robotics and Art The development of machines from the development of the printing press, has been a topic of marvel but also an issue of debate across disciplines. It played a large role in industrialization and the automation of many labor-intensive tasks in factories. Today, improvements in technology includes artificial intelligence that can produce original material and robots that look human, and the progress is yet to down. However, the initial hesitancy against robotics persists. The Industrial Revolution One of the most important early arguments made against automation was in 1936 by Walter Benjamin. He argued that the authenticity or "aura" of art is depleted by mechanical reproduction. Many people believe creativity in children is hindered by tablets, TVs, and computers. However, by 1995 Douglas Davis contradicted the loss of authenticity that Benjamin described. Davis suggests, instead that the "aura" had been stretched to allow transmission of informatio...

Math and Art Anybody who has read a history, art, or math book, has likely come across the ideas of linear perspectives, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and fractals, each of which encapsulate the creation of art and science through mathematics.  I've often walked through art museums and wondered how artists make their work look so real, and one of the most essential methods used is linear perspective demonstrated by Italian Artist Brunelleschi. He demonstrated the intrinsic nature of perspectives by using mirrors to accurately draw the Florence baptistry. His findings were used to develop optics and even telescopes. The importance of his observation is preserved by the essential incorporation of perspective into art and math classes today.  Linear Perspective: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMKLCjZwjn1PnfdgkPZOVMpgta7bZwezi5doKaSOU2_gK9VC_OzSyhEP5DDCnlwRkNV0g&usqp=CAU Edwin A. Abbott's  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions  tells a story of t...

Two Cultures I'm a third year MCDB Major and Gender Studies Minor, which I picked to become a culturally informed future physician. Thus, undergraduate career exemplifies the experience of the seemingly isolated cultures of the arts and the science that C.P. Snow describes as "two groups- comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin... who had almost ceased to communicate at all," (2) in his lecture "Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution".  In his paper "On Creativity", Bohm highlights that the two cultures are similarly motivated by the desire to create, "in this respect, the scientist is perhaps not basically different from the artist... who all want to create this sort of thing in their work," (138). Much of this separation is artificially introduced by schools and reinforced as people grow older and must specialize their skills to their jobs, as is described in the video "Changing Educati...