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Makoto Azuma's New York exhibition features botanical design Visit In Exobiotanica, artist Makoto Azuma used plants to figure out “how life came to be” and “what are [the] specific elements and conditions that allow for life” (Claudia Schnugg).  Makoto sent plants into the universe to see how they interacted with air outside of the earth. This was so interesting to me and I loved looking at the beautiful photos from this piece. This really relates to DESMA 9 because it involves the use of art to figure out questions regarding biological science, specifically evolution. It also showed the way art is needed to answer certain questions in the science and technology fields.                Makoto Azuma's New York exhibition features botanical design Visit I also found the mining asteroid piece by Michele Boulogne very interesting and enjoyed learning about the important questions that come along with scarcity in regards to space. I left a com...

It really stood out to me how MRI’s are used in both art and in the medical field. I can personally relate to this because I had to have an MRI when I was very young, when I was in 3rd grade. To me, the most informative part of the reading was on page 75. Author, Silvia Casini, stated “the appeal of brain imaging as a technique of self-portrait is powerful for an audience outside the medical field, because information is conveyed through images” (Casini). I related this back to what I have learned during weeks 1 and 2, because it served as another example as to how technology, even in the medical field, overlaps with technology used in the arts. MRI Scans: Definition, uses, and procedure What's in My MRI Report? Decoding Common Terminology | PocketHealth This class has been really important to me because of the way it showed me that science and art are so closely related. Another example of this interrelationship was seen in lecture 1 at 05:20. Professor Vesna stated that basically...

I decided to choose robotics, specifically philosopher, Descartes, discovering and articulating the “mind with consciousness and awareness” (Vesna, Lectures 1).  This relates to the preface in the required reading, “The Work of Art in the Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin. Benjamin acknowledges human consciousness and how it works with pictorial reproduction stating that “the eye perceives more swiftly than the hand can draw” (Benjamin). I found this to relate to Descartes' work regarding human minds and consciousness because it demonstrated the ways that mechanical reproduction overlaps with human consciousness and aims to keep up with or even work better than the human mind.  Ex Machina robot "Ava"   Artificial Intelligence Both of these creators reminded me of a movie called Ex Machina. The movie is about a successful scientist/computer programmer named Caleb. Caleb is recruited by a high profile CEO to work on a robot called Ava. Once Caleb begins his work,...

     This week, I learned that mathematics has greatly influenced art through symmetry and the overall geometry of a piece of work. Through the utilization of mathematics, artists like Charles Csuri are able to create proportions and symmetrical aspects of their art. As Csuri stated, in order to create a piece “ you use an additive and subtractive process until the picture is finished” (Csuri, CharlesCsuri.com/bio). Obviously, adding and subtracting are basic foundations of math so this showed me the prominence of mathematics in the artistic realm.   I got a deeper understanding of the way mathematics greatly influences art through learning about Brunelleschi, who came up with “the first correct formulation of linear perspective” in 1413 (Vesna). This influenced art from this point on to distinguish a vanishing point and correct measurements “in which parallel lines should converge” through the use of mathematical principle (Vesna). This exemplified the way that math...

      Week 1- Two Cultures Specifically at UCLA I see both science and art cultures through the use of computers and the various websites we use, like Canvas and MyUCLA. These two websites feature a strong presence of both art and science and serve as great examples of their overlapping relationships. Each of these websites are obviously coded with lengthy scripts involving computer science, but there is also a large component relating to the arts. The codes that are created for these websites are basically used to display the art and exterior of how the websites should look. In addition they each serve the purpose of mass communication and basically bringing large groups of people together to share ideas. As Stephen Wilson stated, these kinds of websites and “new technologies [are] tools that give profound new ways of doing what artists have historically done” with the addition of science (Wilson, “Myths and Confusion in Thinking About Art/Science/Technology). ...