Medicine On Call With Dr. Elaina George

Tessa Lena, a strongly opinionated artist and writer living in New York city discusses regaining our humanity in a time of technology, big data, and machine-like people.  Tessa describes how treacherous the growth and merging of technology will be for humanity. This “agenda” uses humans as a resource. We are a means to an end to serve technology. Our humanity is stripped as we become less free and less able to touch and communicate with each other.  She is a classically trained pianist and singer, born and raised in Moscow. As a teenager, Tessa had the honor of performing her own composition at the Moscow Conservatory. Additionally, she wanted to be a geneticist. As her interests expanded to Tibetan music and language, she headed to Lhasa with a backpack to do a field study in linguistics and ethnomusicology. Tessa settled in Chicago where she started a band working with her hero Ian McDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner. She also worked with drummer Alan Lake, who has played and recorded with Madonna, Brian