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Week 4: Medicine, Technology, & Art My knowledge of medical technologies today is rather limited as I personally have only experienced X-rays, MRI's and particular machines that I have only seen. But after watching the lecture videos, I would conclude that I have more of a broadened view of the advancements in medical technologies over the past several hundred years. While watching Professors Vesnas lecture video on this concept, it was interesting when she stated that "anatomy and dissection are at the intersection of art and science." I am still questioning that, as I do not fully comprehend. There is a wide array of things that incorporate both technology and art, but both work together to create one another, so to say. An article by the Medical Futurist discusses the most exciting medical technologies of 2017, and one in particular that goes hand in hand with the lecture videos is the "Narrow artificial intelligence" that has surfaced the United ...

Week 3: Robotics and Art Industrialization is something that is constantly evolving due to the change in politics, economics, population, resources, etc, and has been especially in the last 100 years or so. It can have both positive and negative effects, as well as a great influence on things such as life as we know it, or things such as art and science. Walter Benjamin, a Jewish German philosopher and eclectic thinker during the 1900s, a time when technical reproduction had grown into something much bigger than what people thought it was, discusses that even with the ability to reproduce a piece of art, it is still lacking one major element, "its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be." It was interesting to read about Douglas Davis' view on art in the age of digital reproduction. As he discusses how there is not much of a distinction between something that is original, or that which is reproduced, I figured I would...

Week 2: Math & Art When we think of mathematics, we usually would not assume that it may be correlated with art. But rather, it is actually critical in the study of visual arts. Mathematics in itself is a system or a language that includes several different operations and numbers. Professor Vesna introduces mathematics in her video, which states that typically, as an artist, mathematics would seem to be removed from the field, but it is necessary for things such as measurements, forms, and shapes. It was not until artists began to use mathematics, that art began to become more realistic. This was more explained in Marc Frantz's article Vanishing Points Looking at Art. Understanding this concept, for example, allows the artist to have things in the correct positioning for the art piece, therefore making something more realistic.  In addition, the article, "Of the Nature of Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbot, paints a picture in our heads about objects on the sur...

Week 1: Two Cultures Hello! My name is Claire Grover and I come from a very artistic and athletic family. From what I come to understand about the idea of Two Cultures, an idea introduced by C.P. Snow, there are the literary intellectuals the natural scientists. A prime example of this would be the division of the buildings of the science fields and the arts and humanities fields I notice on the UCLA campus. The relevance of this course contributes very much to my academic career as I am very interested in the field and hope to get into a design field following college. Not only am I interested in this class, but I am also a more artistically driven person, as opposed to science. When it comes to technology, I am interested only to a particular extent, meaning I believe it can have great uses and is very helpful in certain ways, but not always. One of the sources that influenced my understanding of this weeks topic was the RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms video prov...