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The advances of medical technology owe much to art, from teaching about medicine, appreciating the human body, to optimizing medical equipments. Art is essential in educating health professionals because visually understanding the human body is imperative to treat patients. Like Professor Vesna said in lecture part 1, artists play a critical role in documenting the anatomy of the body, allowing health professional students to learn the external and internal anatomical structures before working with living human beings. One of the today's most advanced educational tool is Anatomage, an interactive dissection table that I know is used in dental anatomy classes and could be used in medical school classes as well. I believe that significant artistic elements were incorporated in the creation of Anatomage in order to make this advanced creation to be highly informative yet user friendly. Although learning anatomy is a challenge, the interactiveness offered by Anatomage shows that art ...

Space shuttle repurposed For my first event, I went to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Although the museum appeared small from the outside, it contained artworks, reclics, and creations across different time periods that sparked my curiosities. The theme of each exhibit was mysterious as it was a challenge for me to create a category for it because compare to larger museums, there is always a title/name for each of its exhibits. There were two exhibits that caught my attention. First, I was amazed by the exhibit where I could see a mosaic depicting a bouquet of flowers when viewing through a microscope. Relating to week 1 materials of two cultures, this creation is representative of the third culture because the creator utilized both science and art to construct his mosaic. In addition, it made me questioned the definition of an artist: can scientists be artists and can artists be scientists? Although I am not too sure of the answer, I think that artists and scienti...

 Realtime hologram of a live concert   Technology and art have a dynamic relationship, inspiring one another. Commonly, each field is perceived to advance the other such as in the advancement of Pixar animation. However, when analyzing their influence on human knowledge throughout history, I find that while technology and art had expanded knowledge in the past, they have limited our knowledge in the presence. In lecture, Professor Vesna highlighted the importance of the printing press, pertaining to its contribution to novel artistic approaches in the Renaissance and to the expansion of scientific knowledge such as the scientific methods. It is apparent that inventions from the past have positively contributed to our intelligence. However, when analyzing the use of technology today, its impact on human knowledge appears to be contrary to its impact in the past. http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=469 In the paper, ...

In Professor Vesna’s lecture, math influences art in many ways, from allowing art to appear more realistic to expanding the different forms of art. For example, the vanishing point, developed by Brunelleschi during the Renaissance, has allowed a two-dimensional drawing to have a three-dimensional appearance. Leonardo Da Vinci utilized the vanishing point to create a Renaissance masterpiece, Last Supper. Last Supper  by Lenoardo Da Vinci https://www.leonardodavinci.net/the-last-supper.jsp Furthermore, the use of math has allowed art to be represented in a variety of forms beside a two-dimensional artwork that most individuals are familiar with. Among them, origami, architecture, and music are three art forms that I identify to be representative of the novelty and innovative elements that math adds to art. Robert J. Lang is considered a pioneer in the cross-disciplinary field of math and art because he uses math to produce symmetrical 3D objects from paper. It is a difficul...

  The “Changing Education Paradigm” video, by Sir Ken Robinson, comprehensively illustrates the unnatural separation of the two cultures––science and art––and its negative impact on the education system. Sir Ken Robinson argues that within the education system, the divergence of smart and non-smart people is a result of  individual’s concentration in either the science or the art. "Changing Education Paradigm" https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U Although this may appear to be a radical perspective, but in reality, many stereotypes, especially in college setting, originate from this divergence. As a senior at UCLA, I can attest that stereotypes about the contrasting personalities between a North campus major (humanities/arts) and a South campus major (natural/hard science) are apparent throughout my four years here. North campus major students seem to perceive south campus major students to lack communication skills, not know how to enjoy their youth, and appear to be ...