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In this week's lecture, Professor Vesna discusses medical advances in technology and this also considered art in today's culture. The human body has undoubtedly always been looked at as a work of art, especially in the medical field when analyzing every little function of the human body. The invention of x-rays and other advances in technology in the medical field have given doctors, nurses, and any other medical professionals much more knowledge about the human body. This invention has also helped society in many ways such as TSA in airports. To try and keep out airports as safe as possible, the x-rays in TSA are constantly getting better to assure the safety of our communities.  Another invention in the medical field is MRI. Also known as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, this helps essentially when assessing injuries or going deeper into a specific area in the body that a normal x-ray can see. This really applies to me because when I tore my labrum in my shoulder, I wa...

This Wednesday I attended the workshop with Linda Weintraub. We began sitting out outside with Ms. Weintraub and spoke about how most humans today do not keep in touch with manmade objects and we are taken over by things like cellphones or cement-paved streets. She asked us all how much time we believed to spend touching manmade objects and her answer was 2%. This was a very interesting concept to me because I never really thought of life this way. Following this meeting outside the room, we finally found our way into the room she had set up for us. I was told not to talk and as I went into the room, I went to find my first box and read the directions. The directions told me to smell inside the box and explain what I had smelt. After I had completed this, I went over to my next box and I was told to keep my eyes closed and take a guess at what is in the box based on my other senses, such as touch and smell. After venturing around in the outside circles, I then approached the center and...

Robotics have had a huge influence on our world today whether it be economically or artistically. As more people have taken a more artistic perspective at the creation of robotics, the public has seen more use of robots around the world. For example, Honda has created a robot to act as a butler with the features of a human. As robotics become influenced more and more by art, the more advanced design becomes for robots. I think that robotics have another artistic point of view in the way they are used in assembly lines to get a job done more efficiently. For example, in all car manufacturing companies, the way the robotic machines move car parts and transfer them other areas to put together full bodies of cars is amazing. It is art. Without robotics, this process of building cars would take much longer and companies would essentially be losing money. One point Benjamin makes is when someone tries to recreate art over and over, makes the art less personal and genuine. Howev...

This week's topic, Math and Art, focuses on the idea that artists either intentionally or unintentionally use math to help create their art. As someone who has little knowledge in the arts, I always assumed that artists used perspective based on how they viewed the world because that's just how we see it. However, as Professor Vesna points out, it was Brunelleschi who first used mathematics for perspective drawing. Leonardo da Vinci was a very famous renaissance artist who constantly used mathematics to help create more visually appealing art.  For instance, in his painting the Mona Lisa , da Vinci uses the golden ratio (1:0.618) because it is believed to be the most appealing. We can also see he implements golden ratio rectangles in many of his works including The Vitruvian Man and The Last Supper . While looking at the Mona Lisa , I better understand how something so simple as placement of her features could offer a more pleasing visual. To the untrained eye, on...

C.P. Snow sets a clear distinction between the "two cultures" he believes is prevalent in today's world. Art and science are the two distinctions he refers when speaking of these two cultures. In the first article, '"Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between", Victoria Vesna uses a quote saying, "We shall...use the word 'science' in the sense which the Englishmen so commonly give it; as expressing physical and experimental science, to the exclusion of theological and metaphysical"' (Vesna). From this quote, I get the sense that people associate scientists with facts and not going deeper into the critical thinking processes. I can see the difference that Snow's idea is trying to express between the two cultures. A great example in our immediate world is the structure of the UCLA campus. The North campus of UCLA associates with the arts and South campus associates with science. It is a clear distinction of the two campuses when wal...

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