Danielle Dixon DESMA 9

 Week 4:  Art and medicine go hand in hand in some aspects of life. There are many artists that like to use human anatomy in their art, and there are doctors and surgeons that can be considered artists seeing as they are changing the way someone looks through surgery. Because of the creation of the MRI machine, more artists have had the ability to incorporate the body in their art on a more intense level. Like artist Virgil Wong using the human muscular system in his art, or Justine Cooper who used the MRI machine to create different art pieces using the images and sounds. The first MRI machine Ramond Damadian  The largest crossover that was pointed out in lecture this week was plastic surgery. While plastic surgery was created to help soldiers that were wounded in war, it has evolved into something a lot more. People get plastic surgery all of the time because they want to look different. Their plastic surgeons are the artist, and the patient is the canvas. While plastic...

Event 1:  This week I had the honor of listening to Patricia Cadavid speak on zoom this week. This event was about Patricia Cadavid’s research about Native people and their art. During this event, she talked about and showed us a khipu. This was one of the earliest forms of what is now a computer. Patricia Cadavid turned the khipu into an instrument and showed audience members how it works and also where it came from. Khipu by Patricia Cadavid Photo: Tom Mesic  Another instrument that was shown and talked about is the Kanchay Yupana. This is another instrument that was created in the Americas before colonization. This instrument also uses electricity to create sound just like the khipu.  Kanchay Yupana by Patricia Cadavid Photo: Tom Mesic During this event, it was so interesting to see how far technology has come and how long it has been around. These instruments are two of the blueprints for a lot of technology that we have now. This just ties into what we covered in th...

 Industrialization is a form of change and society does not deal with change very well. While technological advances are praised by some, there are others that see these advances as a bad thing. When robots are created or updated, there is a section of society that believes that robots and artificial life are one step closer to taking over the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fl4OEZmVg With film and television, this fear of artificial intelligence has only increased for some people.  Walter Benjamin points out the impact film has on society in his writing. When films first started being created, they were looked at a lot differently than they are now. Now, movies play a large role in most people's lives. One movie that comes to mind when talking about artificial intelligence is I, Robot. https://25yearslatersite.com/2020/07/16/i-robot-examining-sentience-and-the-value-of-life-in-all-its-forms/ In this movie, robots evolved and tried to take over humans. While it was a...

  I have always understood that mathematics influences art. They go hand and hand. In lecture this week there were multiple points that were brought up that I did not know about but were very interesting. The first was that of perspective that was introduced by Piero de la Francesca. While I did know that math goes into art in terms of the size of the art, I did not know that artists use math in order to get their proportions right and make sure that their art is perceived the correct way. Another interesting point from this week was the golden ratio. The fact that there is a mathematical equation that was created, and some artists still to this day use it as a way to get the right proportions in their artwork is amazing to me. This is even used in architecture which is, in my opinion, a perfect mixture of art and math. Take the French architect Charles E. Jeanneret as an example. He used the golden ratio in a lot of the buildings he designed. Architects use the golden ratio so tha...

WEEK 1: TWO CULTURES  People see the world differently. To Snow, there are literary intellectuals and scientists. These two groups perceive the world very differently. With the differences in how each group perceives the world, Snow also points out that disagreements and misunderstandings also come, mostly with younger people. (Snow 4) Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden https://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/franklin-d-murphy-sculpture-garden Take UCLA as an example of this. While UCLA is a large campus with many majors, it is split between North campus, humanities, and South campus, stem. From the moment you take your tour during orientation, the divide is very prominent. If you get a tour guide from North campus they not only talk about how pretty North campus is, but they also talk about how South campus is not very pretty and how stem majors are always stressed and crying. The UC Center for Laboratory Safety https://www.cls.ucla.edu/ On the flip side, if you get a tour guide from...