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This week’s lectures explained how medicine can be considered a form of art. I was very surprised to hear how important the human anatomy was in art. While I knew that the body was a focus of many art pieces, I did not realize how much detail goes into when replicating the body in an art piece. Art is similarly important to anatomy, such that it spreads the word about technological advances and keeps people aware of new medical discoveries. For example, “Body Worlds”, a traveling exhibition created by Gunther van Hagens, displays how Plastination works and shows examples of Plastinated bodies. I knew about the idea of plastic surgery, mostly from television and social media, but was curious how this would really relate to art. I found it very interesting to find out about Arlon and the surgical performances she would put on, and how she would pick different features for herself based on women from different famous paintings. I mostly thought of plastic surgery as an optional thing ...

I have always considered movies and film a form of art, considering it is the creation of both cinematography and drama. Robots, on the other hand, I considered to be the ultimate work of science. I always pictured robots as boxes that were able to move, talk, but not feel emotion or understand other’s emotion. The only time I would see robots that showed emotion would be in movies such as “Star Wars”, where two of the main characters are robots who clearly have their own thoughts and feelings and whom people even grew to personally care about. However, after watching David Hanson’s Ted Talk about “Robots that Show Emotion”, I understand that this is actually a very real possibility. I never considered that robots would be used as a form of art, considering I never pictured them to be aesthetically pleasing, however after looking at the work of artists such as Ken Feingold and Freerk Wieringa, I see how they can be considered a piece of art. Work Cited: "9345 E A...

At this week’s event, I heard many topics that were similar to the ones we have been discussing the last few weeks regarding the integration of math, science, and art. Pictured below is me with one of the speakers, Linda Weintraub. During her presentation, she talked about how pharmaceutical products, such as antidepressants and birth control pills, are found in the water stream from human’s urination through the plumbing system and have been ingested by the sea life within those water streams. She did this by placing her art piece that displays this cycle in the bathroom stalls instead of inside an art gallery to make people aware that they are contributing to the cycle. I thought it was very cool that an artist can use their work to reach a broader crowd and make them aware of technological and ecological issues going on in our world. The next speaker, James Gimzewski, talked about nanotechnology and the many uses of nanobubbles which I found very interesting. Nanobubbles can ...

This week’s material explained the relationship between math, art, and science and how the three are intertwined. Before this week’s lecture and readings I had naturally grouped math and science together, but always thought of them as separate from art. I had heard the concept that math was a big part of art, but I had kind of doubted it because art seems so free, creative, and loose, while math seems structured, strict, and full of formulas. However, they have a much stronger relationship that I once thought. In Marc Frantz’ “Vanishing Points and Looking at Art”, I gained more understanding of the idea of a vanishing point in which one-point perspective has one vanishing point and viewing art from a different angle could create a different perception of depth. The Vanishing Point Theorem is when two or more lines in the real world are parallel to one another, but not parallel to the picture plane, and have the same vanishing point. Linda Dalrymple Henderson’s “The Fourth Dimen...

 I see the division of arts and cultures on the UCLA campus by the way it is split between "North campus", the arts and literature side of campus, and "South campus", the science and math side of campus.  The south campus buildings are built with much more modern and basic building structure, while north campus buildings are usually brick buildings with hand-structured carvings and sculpture gardens. I have always thought of myself as more of a facts and reasoning type of person which made me lean more towards science majors. However, this often conflicted with my religious perspectives, as my mother is very religious and I grew up going to a Christian church. In science, Christianity is often put into question and sometimes even rejected. I also thought of myself as a generally creative person, but felt that this skill would not be useful in a scientific profession. I am on the softball team here at UCLA, and our team is made up of many different kinds of pe...