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Week 4: MedTech+Art

When I saw this weeks topic I was confused on how Medicine and Art correlate. I then thought about the time I got my finger scanned to check and see if it was broken and I remembered the images. The technology was able to show a picture of my bone, I found this interesting. It was not until completing this weeks readings and videos that I learned more about the connection between the two.

X-Ray 

The new technologies give scientist the ability to identify all new types of genes and DNA as well as give them a visual (Ingber). We are able to see what is going on inside the human body and develop new cures. The images get microscopic imaging and can even show density. After reading, "The Hippocratic Oath Today" by Peter-Tyson, the section labeled the modern version expresses that they will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science. I agree because when I was explaining earlier about my X-Ray I was thinking about what what Casini had said about MRI. The MRI scans a portrait of the human being; my X-Ray gave an image of my hand. Art correlates with medicine because they present an image with multiple meanings and the outcome depends on the person who is looking at the image.

Brain Image with Color(ART)

We also learned about plastic surgery and the procedures people undertake in order to match beauty or the look they want. I disagree with the use of surgery and medical advancements to enhance a persons appearance just for fun. The silicon and practice is very dangerous in my eyes. I see it as art being used as a negative. The body out of its natural form is reckless and looses the originality it came to the world with. Medicine and art are one in the same and I learned that this week. I learned that medicine creates a different form of art for science.

Body Image

Plastic Surgery

Bibliography

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/Ep0M2bOM9Tk.” Lecture. Medicine pt1 . Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 23 April, 2016. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/FIX-9mXd3Y4.” Lecture. Medicine pt3. Youtube, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 23 April, 2016. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>.

Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations Between Science and Arts.” (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 23 April, 2016.

Tyson, Peter. “The Hippocratic Oath Today.” PBS. PBS, 27 Mar. 2001. Web. 23 April, 2016.<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html>.

Ingber, Donald. "The Architecture of Life."Jan 1998. Web23 April, 2016.<5-ingber_architecture-of-life.pdf>

http://images.radiopaedia.org/images/590933/a9df56159ce64b104114a5cf46dd5f.jpg

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1866056/thumbs/o-BRAIN-570.jpg?1

http://cdn.skipandgiggle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cosmetic-surgery-thailand.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/API3j0bMMRQ/hqdefault.jpg

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Rollercoaster

Week 3: Robotics+Art
       Initially I figured we would be learning just about robots and how art transformed how society perceives them. However I actually learned that robotics has to deal with computers, graphic design, the internet and much more. The industrializations of the different mechanisms used to create art have expanded over the centuries. To the left is a picture of myself on a rollercoaster, it wasn't until I read this week's readings and lectures that I admired the art. Not only is the rollercoaster a symbolic portion to robotics and the way society uses technology but the photograph itself and the digitalized animations. This image made me think about what Walter Benjamin argued about in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. He said,"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element it's presence in time and place...". This line was very powerful to me because as I looked at this image I realized that every single person had the same exact one, just with their face. Professor Vesna talked about Gutenberg and how the printing press was sort of like a bases for mass production and assembly. There was no individualism and no creativity. The art work was just being displayed. Benjamin talked about how the mass production of art can remove the creativity and originality from the artist from the piece of work. I think this is shown in the photo to the top left. Douglas Davis talked about pure and original. He talked about how the computers allow for the manipulation of art and its form. In the movie Big Hero6 the robot interacts with humans in a way to aid them from danger. Professor Vesna also spoke about how Karel Capek coined the term robot. This was sort of a bases and now that technology has advance the robots shown in dramas and movies have have become more elaborate. The people in Big Hero 6 responded to the robot as a member of society because the robot was helpful. However in other featured movies of robots, for example Irobot, the town responded based on how the robots treated them. Art has many realms and can be analyzed, perceived and created in many different ways. Art has only grown and will continue to do so.

Irobot

Big Hero 6

Iron Man[humanized robots]

References

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Marxists. N.p.. Web. 17 April 2016. <http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm>


Davis, Douglas. “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” The MIT Press, 1995. Web. 17 April 2016. <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1576221uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101286048881>


Uconlineprogram. “Robotics MachikoKusahara 1.” YouTube. YouTube, 14 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 April 2016. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded>.


Vesna, Victoria. “CoLE.” CoLE. N.p.. Web. 17 April 2016. <https://cole.uconline.edu/~UCLA-201209-12F-DESMA-9-1

"Links and Cool Stuff." Links and Cool Stuff. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2016.

http://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/images/irobot2.jpg

http://bpar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Big-Hero-6-Movie-54.jpg

http://harvardpolitics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/iron-man1.jpg

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Week 2: Math+Art

Math+Art

This week, Dr. Vesna, talks about how artist use mathematics to create art. I learned that mathematics is driving reality through the use of computers. Some artist state that they hate mathematics but then they use computers and using computers is using mathematics. I also learned that all artists didn’t use perspective and vanishing points, which correspond to math techniques, to create art. Using the math techniques made the artwork more realistic and gave the image a focus point. The vanishing point theorem expresses that the lines are parallel to one another but not to the pictures plane. This is important to an image because it gives the image a real world affect.

Golden Ratio

Dr. Vesna also talked about the Golden Ratio in architecture as well as art. She mentioned the Egyptians and the pyramids as a base for the Golden Ratio and that it was from the Greek. There is the incorporation of symmetry, geometry with artwork that has used the Golden Ratio rule. I found the “The Fourth Dimension and non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art” very interesting. It reminded me of when I was in Calculus and the teacher said that we were going to learn the equation for a 3-D line. I was confused because I did not realize that it was math that allowed for 3-D and 4-D movies and art to exist. The author of this talked about how 4-D enhanced art for the better. Artist would add dimension and abstract pieces of work to their artwork now because of the direction it took the art and how eye catching it became. The novel FlatLand: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott, was a little different, it focused on perspective. I learn that people perceive things extremely differently depending on their perspectives. How a person perceives an image can be different from another person. As well as the illustration itself can be shown from many different angles to create a different image. This weeks readings and videos have elaborated on my original ideas of how math corresponds with art. Math has enhanced the art form and has brought out a different aspect of imagery. Math provided specific boundaries that has enhanced how the art is seen. Without math, symmetry and 3-D or even 4-D would be impossible and some of the most influential paintings like the Mona Lisa would not exist.

4-D

Perspective

References

Vesna, Victoria. “Mathematics-pt1-ZeroPerspectiveGoldenMean.mov.” Cole UC online. Youtube, 9 April 2012. Web. 09 April 2016 <http://www.youtube.com/watchv=mMmq5B1LKDg&feature=player_embedded>

Math Intro. By Victoria Vesna. YouTube. Uconlineprogram, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHiL9iskUWM&feature=player_embedded>

Abbott, Edwin. “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.” N.p., n.d. Web. 09 April 2016.<https://cole.uconline.edu/content>

Henderson, Lynda. “The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art.” N.p., n.d. Web. 09 April 2016. <https://cole.uconline.edu/content>.

Frantz, Marc. Lesson 3: Vanishing Points and Looking at Art (n.d.): n. pag. 2000. Web. 09 Apr. 2016.

http://www.returnofkings.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/perspective2.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/16-cell-orig.gif

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7f/0f/0d/7f0f0df9513e09d48eea1b9807d74983.jpg

http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2014/April/Math%20art%20gallery/math-cover.jpg?mw=738

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    WEEK 1: TWO CULTURES  

       Snows' concept of two cultures did not become prevalent in my life until I attended UCLA. UCLA divides the campus based off the Left and Right side of the brain. Therefore, the more science and math based courses are located on one half of the school and the more arts and humanity based courses are located on the other half. I am a Financial Actuarial Mathematics Major with a minor in Gender Studies. I have the ability to have a dose of both cultures. In Snow's reading I can relate to the tedious and time consuming of dealing with my Math and Sciences courses that I have taken. I understand Snow's prediction that there is a middle gap between the two cultures and that bringing them together is fragile, but I also agree with Vesna's idea that there is a third culture that combines the two cultures.

http://asucla.ucla.edu/restaurants/
This image represents the two cultures on campus

There is a divide between the two cultures and an issue that I read about in, "A Dangerous Divide", explained that the lack of understanding was from both sides is an issue. 

Iphone 6s

For example, in today's society an IPhone is pretty popular. Both cultures are considered when manufacturing and advertising the phone. The scientific and technological advances made for an IPhone have to relate to the sociology and humanities of what society expects the phone to have. An IPhone as well as Androids have a voice command/system embedded in the phone that enables voice communication. The combination of human language and technology to produce the voice shows the connection of the third culture mentioned by Snow. As well as the finger print unlock option for IPhone. The ability for the phone to capture a single human print to allow access to the phone is a socially technological advancement, representing how both cultures fuel one another to advance society.

The three cultures

Before reading these articles and watching the video from David Bohm, I would of never looked at society in this light. I do not separate the world and things around me as science or humanities. After the reading I now realize the difference between them but I also see how well they come together and that without one, the other would be meaningless. 

References

Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1959. Print.

Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between." Leonardo. 34 (2001): 121-125. 

Print.Bohm, David. "The Implicate Order." YouTube. N.p., 7 July 2008. Web. 03 Apr. 2016

Williams, Christopher. "Academy EBriefings." A Dangerous Divide. The New York Academy of Sciences, 29 July 2009. Web. 01 Apr. 2016.

Bohm, D. "On Creativity." JSTOR. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Oct. 2013.

http://www.tagcloudproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/artscience.jpeg

https://ss7.vzw.com/is/image/VerizonWireless/landing-page-why-vz-iphone-6s-plus-homescreen-v1?$defaultScaleJPG90$

http://asucla.ucla.edu/restaurants/