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Unit 4: Medicine, Technology, and Art Pattriana Perry X-Ray I never thought about the connections between medicine, technology, and art. However, Professor Vesna brought up the parallel between the three fields. She said that in order for artists to draw the body they must first understand its anatomy and movements. As a matter of fact, artists used to help doctors illustrate the human body until X-Rays were invented. Wilhelm Rontgen, the founding father of X-Rays, is one of the first pioneers who saw the potential between the collaboration of technology and medicine: he was able to figure out a way to examine the body without cutting it open. Nowadays, the procedure has become such a standardized routine that almost every hospital on the planet takes advantage of its function; patients with any damages to their bones or ligaments do not have to second guess their injuries. I remember when I was eight years old; I fell off the monkey bars and landed on my right elbow. It started

Unit 3: Robotics and Art Pattriana Perry Johann Gutenberg printing press Assembly line Professor Vesna speaks of how the era robotics came about in her lecture "Robotics pt.1". The origin story started with Johann Gutenberg's revolutionary printing press and was followed by assembly lines like the ones Tom Ford created in the auto industry. The term robots came from the word "robota" which means work, as stated in professor Vesna's lecture "Robotics pt.2". Robots and assembly lines are replacing humans in the workforce for multiple reasons. Robots cannot be overworked, they do not require a salary, and they work faster and more efficiently than their human counterparts. Walter Benjamin talks about the benefits of robots in terms of industrialization. One point he brings up is that"the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility" (page 2). In other words, the creation of print and press is an art

selfie I attended the lecture with Ian Cheng. It was related to the theme Professor Vesna discussed in class: science and art. It was an example of how art needs science and science needs art. Ian Cheng did a great job of displaying the combination. For instance, Ian Cheng used science by using the computer. The computer allowed him to use a video game engine in order to create animations and stimulations.  He also used science by using biology to create human-like individuals. Then, he used art to be creative and make the characters and scenes unique.  He taught the audience about his methods and his thought process of the of the creations.  First, he would wake up and let his thoughts formulate. Next, he would start with sketches and drawings shown in figure 2 to bring his ideas to life. He would then work with those sketches and make changes if need be. Next, he would name make groups for his characters; one group was called "umans" shown in figure 3. He would also

Pattriana Perry Unit 2: Math and Art I never really thought about the connection between Math and Arts until this lecture. The two fields seemed to be on opposite ends of the spectrum in my eyes. However, Professor Vesna proclaims math to be the reason we are able to form art and see art. Mathematics allows people to utilize sequences and numbers to create codes which are used to display images. Math is especially important when it pertains to art that deals with coding and programming, whether it is for an individual to create or view art over the computer. Furthermore, shapes such as triangles, circles, and squares, which are the foundations of geometry, are used to create art. The article "Of the Nature of Flatland" explains how these shapes " move freely about, on or in the surface" and make up the building blocks of different art pieces. For example, figures 1, 2, and 3 are all the same triangle. Although they appear to be different when an individual look

Pattriana Perry Unit 1: Two Cultures The concepts of art and science are commonly known for being different. We are taught that the left side of our brain and the right side deals with "science" and "art" respectively. In today's society, the distinctions between the two fields are still very much there. I attend the University of California, Los Angeles, where the campus is split into two "factions"- North and South. The North campus is known for its creativity and its artistic intuition, where the majority of the humanities classes (i.e. arts, history, language) are taught. The South campus, on the other hand, is known for its scientific minds. A common notion is that the harder, more rigorous classes and majors, such as pre-med, math and chemistry are products of the South campus. Even though some may find science and art to be mutually exclusive, I think they actually work together in a symbiotic fashion. For example, the left and right si