Week 1 Blog

I never really viewed medicine and technology as art. This weeks lesson I find really interesting because I have had medical issues last year involving a knee injury. I had torn my ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) and meniscus due to sports. I've had to get three MRI's because they could not tell if the ACL was torn. After seeing a doctor back at home and here at UCLA they all agreed to repair the meniscus then ACL, but due to how bad I tore my meniscus they thought it was in best interest to stage this surgery. I got my meniscus repaired at home during the summer of 2015 then when I got here to UCLA during summer school they fixed my ACL. During my rehab, I pushed myself too hard and ended up re-tearing my meniscus involving a third surgery. Medicine, tools, and technology are considered art according to Vesna's Lecture Pt.2. MRIs and X-Rays are is used to show organs and tissues within the body.  Silvia Casini states in her article, “MRI has a ‘look’ in the same wa...

I attended the activity workshop on April 20, 2017. I had an interesting experience at this workshop because we got to look at materials that were not mass production. Everything in that workshop was found by a women, Linda Weintraub, who was from New York and she put everything in boxes and separated it throughout the room. Before entering the room we were given specific rules.    1. There was no talking.    2. we had to take our shoes off. She wanted us to get a feel with our feet of the ground. It was an awkward feeling because we would step on things that we would normally step on with shoes. We all then walked aound then room and split ourselves up into groups and sat around boxes. Each box had a different material inside. Each group also had different activities as well. Some of the hands-on activities involved touching feathers with our eyes closed and seeing ifwe could tell the difference between them. We looked at a honeycomb and then discussed w...

After last weeks unit, it gives me a better understanding of why this unit robotics does relate with art. There are many different types of robotics that are invented by artist. For example, robots and cyborgs. For me its interesting how someone can create such a thing that can interact with humans like in the video of the Homeless Robot. A lot of people didn't even realize that he was a robot till they took off his hat or even touched him. In professor Vesna's lecture, she mentions how the industrialization led up to robotics. In addition, the philosophers that she mentions in her first lecture have a huge impact and influence today's artist on robotics.  Figure 1: Cybrog                                                    ...

I have always thought math was a form of art. Math is used in a lot of graphics, for example, ratios, geometry, and simple basic math. In professor Vensa's lecture, she mentions that a lot of art majors hate math, but they use math on a daily basis whether they like it or not. Computers are what connect math and art. She also mentions how artist use horizontal lines to get the realness and depth of paintings and she uses the Mona Lisa for example. The Golden ratio gives the painting its beauty and  symmetry. Leonardo Da Vinci studied perspective and he used artificial and natural perspectives.      Figure 1: Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci created this drawing and it influenced so much art in the 20th century. It was created in 1847 that shows a male drawing and was used as a symbol of art and science.   Figure 2: Fractals Fractals use math in its art. It uses the formula z=z^2+c. The Mandelbrot Set is the most popular fractal. There are a v...

WEEK 1 Growing up as a child I was always surrounded by art. My mother is a graphic artist and would involve me in some of the work she did. By helping her it gave me some interest in that area of work. I am not too familiar with museums, I have only visited the LACMA museum but I would like to visit more in the future.  Figure 1: The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA  After reading CP Snow’s The Two Cultures and Scientific Revolution , I do strongly agree that science and the intellectuals art are two separately different cultures. While reading Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between, they discuss how technology brings science and art together.      Figure 2: Dividing the Brain from Science and Art After reading both articles, it made me realize that both science and art can be combined by a  third culture and Snow lacks this data in his article.   Figure 3: Student Athelte My entire lif...