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Typical BioArt of microscopic parasites This week’s topic is on biotechnology and art. Art expands with technology, in biotechnology, artist are also scientists that creates their art through scientific process at cellular level. It is a very interesting topic, but there is much controversy into it. Glowing Flowers in Exhibition in Hong Kong Natural Selection proposed by Charles Darwin has been the one theory defining our evolution for centuries. On the other hand, we have artificial selection where we human interfere and chooses the organism to breed. It was used to be done by cross-breeding and can only success if the organisms used for cross-breeding are closely-related. However, with modern technology, especially biotechnology, we can modify living things at cellular level. So we can literally extract a gene from one organism and put it into another organism. One example can be the flower that glow in the dark. This is an engineer for beauty where fluorescent protein f...

In t he Mnemoawari exhibition by E. Joteva, the artist divides the exhibition into three parts- the past, the present and the future and each part using a different representation of cryo sculptures. The sculptures will melt gradually over 3 days of the exhibition, conveying the process that any physical items will disappear eventually and all we have at the end is the memory and immaterial impressions.  One of the images The past is represented with three image of the cryo sculptures when they were still just made before melting starts. When I first entered the exhibition, I was confused by the images. There were just three huge image of ice ball spinning with some dripping sound(slightly annoying as well). The ice balls are gives mixed feelings. The leaves and flowers gives pattern and colors to the sculpture, making some pleasant to view while one slightly irritating. Standing in the middle of the images, my mind was blank. The other two Me experiencing the scu...

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Medicine and art? When I first looked at the topic of this week, I was like “what”. Even till now, I am still quite confused about how are this two areas related. So this made me go back to the very beginning of the class and look for the meaning of art. When I looked up the Oxford dictionary, art is very much related to creativity and imagination and not specific to visual. So far, we have been constrained to the visual arts. Thus, this week’s topic is a branching out to the less discussed side of art. With a fresh understanding in mind, medicine and med-tech are definitely parts of art. Medical drawing “have been made possibly since the beginning of medicine”.   Human body is a complex system where organs works hand in hand. A carefully drawn medical drawing can correctly depict our internal structures. Especially when the majority of us have the common structure, these drawings allows the doctors to “see” through our body without actually opening us up. Nowadays, with the...