Would you purposefully burn or cut your skin to create “body art” out of the scar your self-mutilation leaves behind after your body heals? This process of “scarification” is gaining momentum on college campuses and we are left to wonder why. Do you find the scarred design on the breasts below appealing or appalling? WARNING: The third image in this article is brutal, bloody, and not safe for upset stomachs. Continue reading at your own risk.
The slums of Kiberia, Kenya take on a special, enigmatic, glow when viewed from above. The large face art is only visible on a grand scale in the surveilling, Panopticonic view:
Teaching can be treacherous if you don’t understand right from the start that your job is to facilitate discussions and get out of the way of the real teaching going on between students. Today, I am reminded of one student who taught me the power of a simple staple.
Another year, another list of favorites, and another year of my still not being Oprah – on the bright side, you know you won’t see any mentions of the va-jay-jay, after that one of course.
Le Corbusier was one of the greatest architects of the Twentieth Century.
He believed houses were machines and his early industrialization of building homes as metrics of functionality — instead of as just basic shelter — forever changed the way we consider both Art and science today.
At 35-years-old, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. warned in 1964 in Oslo — the day after accepting his Nobel Peace Prize — that we must, as a society, always be wary when science advances without a moral core.
The San Francisco Chronicle asks a fine question about the legitimacy of art meeting science as we ponder the image of an electrograph of a brass wire gauge in the year 1900:
Should we consider “Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible,
1840-1900” an art exhibition just because the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art has organized it?
Here’s an anatomical drawing of a colon from a medical school student:
As medicine and science converge to reveal the artistic, human, need to argue faith over facts, a tussle has broken out between the faithful and the scientific and medical communities. It seems, the argument goes, that nanotechnology — because it is so tiny and creative — is Godless, and that is unacceptable to those that believe in a Creator.
Last week, we announced three new additions to the Boles Blogs Network — Panopticonic, Carceral Nation and Memeingful — and today we are delighted to announce two more sites we have added to the network!
The first is ScientificAesthetic.com — that site used to be a website, but we’ve now made it more interactive in our ongoing effort to help bring The Arts to Science. We’ll be writing and wondering about the ways our innate aesthetic informs how to we relate to, and think about, science. Scientific Aesthetic has two logos you’ll be seeing along the Network. The first is the name and the second is the semiotic idea of name:
Continue reading → Scientific Aesthetic and Dramatic Medicine
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