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 Week 4 Blog Medicine, technology, and art have all aided one another in discovering and documenting the human body in an accurate way. Through the early days of human dissection and drawing, we have shifted to greater advancements in technology which has shifted “our perceptions of our bodies.” (Vesna 2:07). We are now able to get actual scans of our bodies, as illustrated in Bodies Incorporated. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was credited with creating a portable x-ray device which he describes as a “mathematical designation for something unknown.” (Vesna 2:55). After X-Rays were created by Rontgen, MRI’s and CAT scans were developed which aided our knowledge on how to treat diseases and possible body breakdowns because we can see and what is going on in our bodies through these tests. Even though our external bodies may look perfectly fine, there is much going on internally that we can only see through tests and scans. Because of this, “ patients often feel unheard or unbelieved when s...

 EVENT 1: OCTOPUS MANDALA: the butterfly effect  For my first event, I attended Professor Vest's Octopus Mandala performance at Santa Monica Beach. This event was one of many performances that captured the them Swept Away: Love Letter To A Surrogate. By talking to people at this event, I found out how these performances were "letters" that were going to be sent to the east coast writers, as east coast writers sent these letters to west coast writers the previous year. I attended this event because I love the ocean and the beauty it brings to this world, which is why it’s more important than ever to be educated on its species and what we can do to protect it.          From this event, I learned that the octopus is a solitary species, as it is a pretty lonely sea animal. Meaning, the octopus relies only on itself and the ocean for its survival. Plastic is singlehandedly destroying and affecting sea animals and their ecosystems. Sea life, including o...

Blog 3 Throughout history, the importance and improvements of machines have shaped out world. Stated by Professor Vesna in the Intro Video, “everything that we do [is] related to manufacturing” (Vesna 0:21) and the process of mechanization. We can date the earliest popularized stage of mechanization to Gutenberg and the printing press. The printing press allowed for knowledge, ideas, and books to be spread at ease, creating the shift of work becoming more machine based. Before the printing press individuals would barely print up to 40 pages a day, compared tp 1,600 pages printed a day with the use of machines. Production and reproduction of pieces was also seen in art, as any art piece could be reproduced and look exactly like the original. Douglas David in The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction stated how, “any video, audio, or photographic work of art can be endlessly produced.”(David 382). Following the printing press, household appliances, office tools, cars, AC syste...

Week 2 Blog Mathematics and the Arts This week's lecture and readings have shown me how mathematics have influenced art and science, even though they tend to be seen on two completely different scales, which explains juxtaposition. Instead of being compared, the realms of mathematics, arts, and sciences actually influence one another and play a major role for one another. Leonardo da Vinci used mathematical formulas to create his art. As said in the Lecture Video, his geometric formula found a way to, "distinguish artificial and natural perspective," (Vesna) by using art and mathematics in a single concept. Before watching this video, I didn't that da Vinci used mathematics to create some of his famous pieces, including the Vitruvian Man, the Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper. In Flatland , Edwin A. Abbott speaks about how we can see the world as more than just a normal flat and straight line. He states that, "the first means of recognition is the sense of hearing....

 Week 1 Blog  The perspective that I gained from the writers was that arts and sciences are always evolving, growing, and branching off into its own form, even if we don’t want them too. Today as cultures become broader, other ideas die off in relevance, which Victoria Vesna suggests in the article, Leonardo, how “every end constitutes a new beginning.” (Vesna 123). New ideas that fulfill the two cultures of “literary intellectuals and natural scientists,” (Vesna 120) have their stereotypes based on income and behavior that are credible and non-credible in their separate ways.  In The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution , C.P. Snow inputs how the divide of two cultures is “rooted in social histories, some in personal histories, and some in the inner dynamic of the different kinds of mental activity themselves,” (Snow 23)  which is relevant in my immediate world. UCLA’s campus is designed in a way where these two cultures and disciplines are separated. In the l...