Week 4:Medicine + Technology + Art April 26, 2024 As a 34-year-old student of architecture at UCLA, and a veteran, I do have some different experience. There have been some experiences with medical technologies—military and not—that have been a part and parcel throughout my life as a parent. But that cross-section of experiences embeds within me the way I look at technology integrated into human life, an interesting area interestingly explored by a number of artists. This week, I delved into different projects that interweave medical technologies with artistic investigation. One of the projects that really resonated with me was Patricia Olynyk's "Dark Skies." Dark Skies is a multimodal installation referring to themes of biology and physiology in relation to the enhancement of sensory perception (About "Dark Skies"). Figure 1. Patricia Olynyk's "Dark Skies" Olynyk's work with Sung Ho Kim and Christopher Ottinger turns on comple...