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Week 4: MedTech + Art Medical Sciences and Art never appeared to me to be intertwined; however, after this week's lecture I have experienced a drastic change in my perspective.  It's not as if the two fields work together, but rather they affect each other in many different ways. The most impactful form of this being, in my opinion, arts affect on plastic surgery.  Plastic surgery can be very useful sometimes, especially for victims of injuries or disease.  I don't always look down upon it especially for cases like the ones previously listed; however, this medicinal form has changed drastically over the past thousands of years since it was created in b.c India and is being taken advantage of.  Plastic surgery is being used by many people who solely seek to make themselves appear more beautiful.  While medicinal practices have had a relatively positive impact on art, I believe that it has had a negative impact on this specific form of medicine.  In artwork, a majority of

Event 1: Metaphors on Vision: Fims by Stan Brakhage Stan Brakhage's "Metaphors on Vision" questions preconceived restrictions on vision and instead looks to change the way in which we view things so that we see objects in their truest of forms.  Before going to the viewing, I was unsure of what I would see and whether I would enjoy it; however, the films were really interesting as they were unlike any films I had ever seen. They initially seemed quite weird but I soon came to realize that Brakhage was trying to create a new and different type of film that contradicted the usual methods of cinemotography. For instance, I believe that Brakhage hopes for us to see things in the way they were initially created, rather than describing things with human made language such as "red apple" or "green grass".  These objects cannot be described as just one simple color, but rather a spectrum of different descriptions.  After watching the piece, it helped me furt

Week 3: Robotics+ Art After last week's lecture, I assumed that mathematics had a very positive impact on art as well as vice versa.  These same mathematics also helped produce the technologies we see and use today, so I also believed that it would further improve artwork.  However, after listening to Dr. Vesna's lectures, I had a slight change in my perspective.  Despite all of the resources technology provides to modern day artists, it also takes away the creativity and imagination in their pieces; however, there are still many positives that technology brings out of art and vice versa.  Without the help of technology, art would not be as wide spread as it is today One of the major positives that technology has brought to the artistic world is speed and efficiency.  Dr. Vesna discussed how Ford was able to utilize technology to mass produce vehicles.  Before this, it was unimaginable to be able to produce thousands of cars a year, let alone hundreds; however, thanks to th

Week 2: Math + Art It was fairly clear to me even before this week's assignment that mathematics played a key and pivotal role in artwork today as well as the past; however, what did surprise me was how much shapes in nature followed mathematical principles.  For example, the seed heads of flowers follow the Fibonacci numbers in an uncanny way.  One flower that follows the number system almost perfectly is the sunflower.  This flower provides a stunning example of this type of spiraling pattern.  The seedbeds of the sunflower can be as large as 144 seeds that are tightly compacted, but the sequence will still closely follow that of the Fibonacci numbers. This type of instance in nature is not rare though.  Many different objects follow similar sequences to that of the sunflower such as pinecones and the number of petals on flowers.  But, many instances in nature follow other mathematical sequences.  For instance, their are many examples of the golden ratio.  This proportion be

Week 1: Two Cultures Puma created the evoSPEED SL cleat that only weighed 99 grams which was drastically lighter than the majority of the time period  Throughout my college journey of becoming a Business-Economic major, which has been a short process thus far as I am only a freshmen, I have been blind to the major division between the arts and science in which C.P. Snow described as the "two cultures."  It's not as if I had not noticed a separation between the two, most specifically the way in which UCLA segregates Arts and Humanities to North Campus and Math and Sciences to South, but rather the constant division in most everyday life.  Rather than discuss the integration of new science and technology as well as the importance of linguistic skills in business, I feel I have been relatively more impacted by these separate cultures in my athletic career.  Most of my lifetime has been spent training and perfecting my art on the soccer field.       Artistic skills