Yuliana Garcia( desma-9/ event 2)

 HELLO BRUINS,

This week, I went to Henry's watch party for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a title that struck me as ironic after watching the film, considering that the lives of the characters depicted in the film were anything but sunny. The film was chaotic and very stimulating; it follows Joe, the protagonist, as he attempts to delete the memory of his significant other because it causes him too much pain to hold her in his mind. I assume this stimulus was done on purpose to connect the viewer with the main character's nuanced thoughts as he goes through this memory wipe-out. This also reminded me of Diane Gromala's TED talk, in which she used her pain to generate VR feedback; in the film, they use the pain of patients' memories to create a machine that will help them relieve themselves and give them a fresh start.

(selfie from the event) 



When debating the ethics of using living things to test medical and artistic procedures. I remembered a scene in which Joe, the main character, tried to interrupt the trial of erasing his memory, but there was no way for him to do so.It made me think about Ruth West's analysis of the ethics behind such procedures; in the movie, was it ethical for the individual conducting the procedure to ignore the patient's wants and needs as he began to respond negatively to the erasing of memory?





In the scene, the doctors who are about to erase the protagonist's memory are experimenting with objects to see what reaction they can elicit that corresponds to them. This scene reminded me of Joe Davis, a pioneer in the concept of biotech and art, and I found it fascinating how they used a similar concept to his when engaging cell body in music. 

Davis used a combination of jazz sound waves to study the reaction of the cells. They used the objects in the film to see how the mind reacted to them. In the film, we see the use of modern biotech technology on these patients to remove their memories without their knowledge.





Citations :


Miranda, Carolina A. “Weird Science: Biotechnology as Art Form.” ARTnews.com,

 ARTnews.com, 18 Nov. 2019, 

www.artnews.com/art-news/news/biotechnology-as-art-form-2184/. 



uconlineprogram. “5 Bioart pt1 1280x720.” YouTube, YouTube, 18 Sept. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaThVnA1kyg&t=1s. 



uconlineprogram. “Biotech Intro NEW.” YouTube, YouTube, 26 Mar. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvp924_pbgc. 



TEDxTalks. “TEDxAmericanRiviera - Diane Gromala - Curative Powers of Wet, Raw Beauty.” 

YouTube, YouTube, 7 Dec. 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdarMz--Pw.








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