Jasmine's DESMA Blog

As discussed by our Professor in this week's lecture, the human body has been critical the role of medicine has been historically speaking in regards to art. In lecture one, she discusses human dissection and how the act of being present for these intimate moments with the body has helped with the creation of art regarding it (Vesna). Throughout history the body has been symbolic and representative of so many different things, and are serves as a means to represent that. Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci via: Erickson Beyond the actual creation of art and medicine affecting that, there have been recent studies that explore how art itself actually affects medicine. In an article entitled "Can Studying Art Help Medical Students Become Better Doctors?" by Robert Glatter, MD, Glatter explores this different perspective. He writes about how creating art allows medical students who primarily use the left side of their brain will allow them to be more stimulated and use ...

Henry Ford's Assembly Line via: Weber Industrialization began in the late 19th century. This time was a period of technological advancement and increased efficiency within the work force and day to day American life. As machines were invented that could perform tasks at a quicker rate than humans, robots and other machines began to take their places--mainly because they were more cost effective ( The USA) . While this affected blue collar work, it also impacted other industries as well, including creative industry. American society was now moving at higher rate, expecting more things in less time, and this ideology became a fabric of American culture.  i, Robot via: madeinatlantis The idea of efficiency and the desire for productivity over humanity has been seen throughout many different films and stories shown to the American public as representations of effectiveness being greater than everything else. The movie iRobot follows the story of robots being used as forms of...

An example of the two-dimensional town. Via Abbott The distinction between arts, sciences, and mathematics has been established within American society since the earliest introduction of education. Through subject titles themselves, children are innately taught that there is no intersection between disciplines. In Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, the author explores shape and dimension through a fictional story. The plot line describes a two-dimensional world in which people and the hierarchy of society is determined by its shape. The story itself explores the ideas of the structure of society, but also how we as a community can attribute characteristics and behaviors to anything so long as it is in context (Abbott). In relation to this class, this story is interesting to explore in a few ways: 1) the use of geometry in art, the book itself and 2) its commentary on how we attribute stereotypes. My first introduction to the combination of art and math wa...

The separation of art and science occurred during the 20th century, and was first coined by C.P Snow. In the article “Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between” Victoria Vensa discusses the intersection between art and science and how scientific and artistic innovation go hand in hand. While historically art and science have been separated from one another because of stereotypes associated to each discipline, the emergence of the digital age has provided a landscape for both to work hand in hand.    This image shows the insights and data associated to someone's instagram via: Buffer Social Integrated Marketing, Saweetie Music Video Via: YouTube As social media has become more and more relevant, it has become a way in which people can support themselves and in many companies running social media equates to a job title. Social media marketing is an example of this pairing of both art and science. Instagram for example utilizes art, pictures and videos, as the main d...