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Week 4: Medtech + Art I view art and medicine to be very different from one another but also share some commonalities. I believe that every human being has a different perception of what art means. Some people might perceive art to be purely artistic but others might think of art to be more science oriented. The human body and its anatomy are what bridges the gap between art and science. This traces back to the Renaissance when our ancestors first started dissecting human bodies to study human organs and its bodily functions. This was the start of a journey into medicine. Human's ever-growing curiosity has driven us to explore the human anatomy from a microscopic level, now that we have access to scans like MRI, CAT, and x-rays  With these new medical technologies, we have a better idea of how humans are programmed and how we work as a whole. Being able to explore ourselves, biologically has really opened the doors to many opportunities. The way we understand humans has al...

Event #1: Museum of Jurassic Technology My time at the Museum of Jurassic Technology was an interesting one. Excited and curious as I can be, I was unaware of what I might find in a place like this. I was surprised I encountered such unusual artifacts at this museum. I took the words "jurassic technology" quite literally and thought this museum was about old technological artifacts but it was much more than that. There were a couple artifacts that I really enjoyed and found to be out of the ordinary. Henry Dalton's micromosaic relics were something I have never encountered before that amazed me. This was Dalton's way of combining his interest microscopy and passion for science. The artwork that was put into it, required patience, precision, and definitely talent. These microscopic works of art were just mind-blowing because to the naked eye, it looked like damaged slides but it was more than that. This made me think back to week 3's assignment on industrializa...

Week 3: Robotics + Art The topic of robotics and incorporation of machinery dates back to many years ago. Nikola Tesla and Henry Ford were significant pieces to the introduction of robotics in modern society, they had great influence on the advancement of technology. Their idea of a wireless world and assembly lines marked a pivotal point in human history. These ideas influenced and drove the vision of a modernized society. It brought about the concept of industrialization and production of machinery, which influenced the creation of movies like Metropolis  or Blade Runner. These movies heavily reflect on the fast-moving, mechanization of production during that time period. Illustration of Ford assembly lines The introduction of assembly lines was a genius idea that marked a starting point in modern society. But little did they know that assembly lines meant mass production and mass production meant that there would be a lot of replication. Walter Benjamin stated, " th...

Week 2: Math + Art You might think that mathematics and arts are two opposite fields of practice. Little do we focus our attention to our surroundings and acknowledge how much of the world actually applies both of these domains. A simple example would be, any car ever made. Before companies actually have the approval to create a car, blueprints of these cars are planned with complex mathematical calculations. If cars followed a universal model and all cars would look the same. There would be no beauty in the creation of cars, which is why every vehicular company (BMW, Benz, Honda, etc.) all have a design crew. Car blueprint of a Citroen DS with measurements.  In Professor Vesna's video, she tackles the concept of the Vitruvian man and how it uses symmetry as a mode of finding beauty in art. As a psychology major, I have learned that as human beings we find symmetrical objects or people (more specifically faces) to be more attractive. Most things in the worl...

Week 1: Two Cultures Arts and science have been viewed as two opposing points in a spectrum. Creative individuals are seen as pertaining to the art culture, meanwhile, intellectual and hardworking people belong to the science culture. Currently, in the 21st century, these two cultures have started to fade and have become less of a focus.  Arts and sciences have never been seen as two complementary topics and it is why as a person we tend to prefer one over the other. Currently attending a four-year university, I am able to relate to this in a sense that we forced to choose between an arts-oriented (bachelor of arts) or science-oriented major (bachelor of science).  We are exposed to the history of art and science through education but since we were not there to experience them firsthand, it is harder to associate with. https://goo.gl/images/1xbS7N Being born in 1996 has allowed me to take a front row seat to view the growth of technology. I witness computers tur...

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