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  Event 2: Ivana Dama  Last week I attended an art talk by UCLA alumni Ivana Dama.  The event began with similar premises as Yolande Harris  with focuses on sense and perception. As Dama is a sound artist who primarily uses sirens and other signal indicators. Many of these sirens come from back home and from her father. Some of them are made in Yugoslavia which is no longer a country and shows how old some of the devices are.  Yugoslavia Serbia JNA Army Military Vehicle Siren Alarm . eBay. (n.d.). https://www.ebay.com/itm/126154269306  An interesting concept that Dama brought to light was the way to catagorize her work. To many sound art can only equate to music and that fully encapsulates the genre. However, Dama that is not the case and they believe that sculpture better captures their work and they made this case to Yale MBA as well.  They stated that because sound takes up physical space like how sculpture does that it too should be considered scul...

Week 4: Medicine+ Technology + art  My initial impression is that there isn't much art within medicine and that other than a certain finesse that is needed for surgery and other techniques. Which in a way is an art form but more so a practice simlar to brick laying or other trivial pursuits.  But on second thought there is a large part of medicine that includes art whether it be in the anatomy diagrams in the books or the depitictions of certain diseases. It seems there is a place for art in everything we do. Vesna brings up how the human body is the primary fascination in both art and Medicine and this is a beautifully illustrated connection. As Art is attempting to fully capture and imitate the human body that the universe has created. This is the same case with medicine as it is an attempt to salvage the body and or repair this divine creation.  “Under the Skin: Drawing Anatomy: Getty360 Calendar.” The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles , 12 Mar. 2022, www.getty.edu/visit/ca...

 Week 3: Robotics and Art The intersection of Robotics and Art began with the invention of the printing press in early times. Originally used for the spread of information including, news and books which contributed greatly to the overall industrialization that was occurring worldwide. A turning point for art and creativity was forming and this began because of Mass production and changed art forever according to Vesna.  Although Mass production and assembly lines made a more consistent product, these creations were a less unique curated product as well. An interesting part of the lecture was the derivation of Robots and the link to hard workers and those in assembly lines- (capek, RUR) All this industrialization has led to computers which were originally used for math and approximations using a plethora of circuits, and some used punch cards. These often cardboard disks with holes are a really unique item for this week that I had no prior knowledge of. However, it reminded me...

 Event 1: Yolande Harris  Event 1 Blog post  This past week I attended an art talk by Yolande Harris.  Harris is a visual, sound, and video artist from UC Santa Cruz who largely focuses on natural sounds and visuals. Ranging from sounds of oceans and tornados to animal noises and oceanic creatures. I searched a few rooms before I found the EDA where the talk was being held and once entering, the tone of Harris’s work was immediately conveyed. As you walk into a low-lit room with colored lights in the front on a projector and on the screen was a moving visual of what I later learned was light flowing through deep jungle in a foreign place.  Yolande Harris began her talk by introducing her earlier works where she largely challenged people's senses and their perception of place, with headphones and natural bodies of water giving a new perspective on GPS and sensing the world around them.  The next piece she introduced was about the Mississippi and natural phen...

Week 2: Math and Art Math and science are one and the same. Although some artists believe they have been removed from math since they graduated high school this is not completely accurate. Artists employ math at all points, Vesna points this out in shapes and figures, and even numbers. The quote at the beginning of the lesson by Einstein helped me grasp this concept because at the highest level artists and scientists are both just creatives being curious. The best example of this is in the Renaissance with the likes of Davinci and his constant studies and how beautiful they were despite being largely scientific.  One of the best examples of math within art is in the most famous painting of all time, The Mona Lisa. The golden ratio is apparent with the spiral fitting perfectly with the natural focus of the human eye. These proportions are very common in photography and composition in general, showing that this link is no rarity and is regularly used by masters.   Perspective, P...

Week 1: Two Cultures I had to decide in high school whether to take the math pathway or the art pathway as only one could fit my schedule. I chose math because of social standards and the strong advice from my parents as they promoted the idea that “ Society values the sciences more than the arts”-(McKernon) . Although I had interesting teachers in both much more were that of science than art. Art however is my passion and I hope to blend the practicality of science and my interest in art with Computer science and design  The main topic this week was a concept put into words by C.P Snow, that there were two main cultures emerging, one of arts and one of science. This immediately brought me to the idea of a Renaissance man and Leonardo DaVinci. DaVinci famously was a master of both art and science however he rarely saw them as two starting with “ the truth presented to him by nature and work back to the ideal”.- This genius is unquestioned even today.       ...