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Throughout these past few weeks, I’ve learned, through the lectures, readings, and research, that I have more knowledge and experience with the connection between art and science than I thought. This still holds true with this week’s topic of medicine, technology, and art. Growing up, my mother took my sister and me to the Bodies Exhibition in Las Vegas. This exhibition showcased multiple preserved whole bodies as well as partial body specimens, overall giving us a closer look at the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems. As a young girl, I never thought about the binding of medicine, technology, and art that the exhibition was accomplishing. Having the experience to see these works of art, that were actual bodies, makes me more personally involved and interested in this week’s topic. In Professor Vesna’s lecture, we learned about the Visual Human Project which really caught my attention. With more research behind this project of the slicing of tw