Week Four: Medicine + Technology + Art

 Med + Tech + Art

This week we have talked about the different ways medicine and art and interacted. On one side there is a need for medicine to be designed well, such as a hearing aids, which an artist will help look nice. On the other side there are artistic movements that bring awareness and information towards medical issues, such as the Aids pandemic. Specifically, I would like to focus on the Aids Quilt project, which I had no idea about until this week. The founder Cleve Jones started the project in 1985, and the premise is to create a memorial for those whose death is aids related. I think it is genius because as quilts they can be made in a way that represents the interests and personality of those who have passed, showing that they are more than just an unfortunate victim to aids. Such huge projects like these not only help improve the lives of those that are currently living, but also those in the future that may contract the virous as well.

Cleve Jones

 

In my elementary school these was a classmate who left school and eventually passed due to HIV/Aids which he was born with. As a child this was a little lost on me but years later in high school I realized just how tragic it is. Especially considering that it could have been prevented if his parents were more educated on the subject, or if there was less of a negative connotation around it.

Sources:  

Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations Between Science and Arts.” (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 26 Oct. 2012. 

Tyson, P. (2001, March 27). The hippocratic oath today. Retrieved April 24, 2021, from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hippocratic-oath-today/ 

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/psjnQarHOqQ.” Lecture. Medicine pt2 . Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ>.

 Jones, C. (n.d.). Quilt project. Retrieved April 24, 2021, from https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt 

Orlan – Carnal Art (2001) Documentary. Dir. Stéphan Oriach. Perf. Orlan. N.d. Film. YouTube. Web. 26 Oct. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=no_66MGu0Oo

Images

Aids quilt virtual exhibition [Video file]. (2020, November 30). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from https://youtu.be/tr0A9ssAzQM

Cleve Johns image: https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1440,w_2561,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_1044/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1491847035/articles/2017/02/22/cleve-jones-on-harvey-milk-when-we-rise-and-fighting-for-lgbt-equality-under-trump/170221-teeman-cleve-jones-tease_sboamb

Children's informational book: https://th.bing.com/th/id/R8430ecfda5d3c67566788ec270a94a59?rik=y4Jf%2brKeyTr0fw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.blurb.com%2fimages%2fuploads2%2fcatalog%2f006%2f949%2f111%2f7708134-0cd43c7721a01bb622a3f364ceabca94.jpg&ehk=S06K8JzKPRXaoMwt1W00PcX1F%2f83mXg%2b9bue7GR9AfI%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw