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In this week’s lecture, the professor discusses how medical technology and arts intersect in contemporary arts. She illustrates the relationship between MedTech and arts with several examples such as anatomy as a form of art and how people use X-rays and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to picture and explore organs as well as human body, where the reading material further amplifies that MRI is a visually captured form of sounds (Casini). One of the most impressive things among all to me is plastic surgery which I personally think that integrates our two topic elements perfectly. Plastic surgery was not invented within the past few centuries, but thousands of years ago about 2000 B.C. in India and Egypt (Salcido). The progress of plastic surgery did not improve until the very recent 100 years when the surgeries mainly served for patients in the wars.  During this time emerged an artist who used herself on operations and recorded the whole precess. Her name is Orlan and she ...

This week’s topic is the close relationship between robotics and art which I find especially significant in the invention of the machines to create/spread art and the creation of scientific fictions.  https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDbj9b7D1FUnxq2ydUoniv0v9r77Ob_xXhC1zTRorUfm4WZmFG8Irs78N3okrI1ANKhNstgZJp26_N_kEjpWlRQRodBUNobeo4yXsT1HO4RDQeg2vzLEDR4WDGIy2KeFMp3SJ4zhU_btb-/s640/tyjuerjurtjyjt.jpg In the modern society with the help of various forms of technologies, reproduction of artworks does not seem hard to us. However, in the early years, there were many obstacles on how to preserve and reproduce artworks. Thus, the revolutionary means of mechanical reproduction play a huge and important role in the world history.  On one hand, when artworks such as photography works can be reproduced as many times as we want, there is no point in looking for the original and authentic piece as they all are. That’s how art truly reacted with the do...

Moholy enrolled as a law student ay the University of Budapest in 1913. However, he said that he’s always a painter. Now, he’s known for his various career paths as a pioneering painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker as well as graphic, exhibition, and stage designer. Yesterday, my friend went to the first comprehensive exhibition of his work at LACMA and joined a tour listening to his 51 years life story. According to our tour guide Mariana, Moholy’s goal throughout his life was to integrate art, technology, and education for the betterment of humanity. Throughout the tour, I saw a clear transition from expression to abstract and finally to the integration of art and technology. For example, the painting on the left was his first artwork created in 1918. Compared to his later work, his first work is more of expression and figurative. A more clear example is the two works below created on the same piece of canvas. The left now shows a geometric abstraction called Archi...

I have never realized how close Math and Art could relate to each other until reading and viewing this week’s materials. I was especially amazed by the idea of “de-genius” which basically says that every one has some talents in each field including both arts and sciences until we get specialized by modern education. https://m.everythingmaths.co.za/science/grade-11/03-atomic-combinations/images/9cb932e7347e5f16579c1abd0be57415.jpg Just as the professor mentioned in the video, the curriculum at my high school called IB (International Baccalaureate) was that kind of system that divides arts and sciences into different sections. Since I had no interest and talent in arts, I took another language as the replacement for the arts part. So i had been disconnected to learning arts systematically for a long time. However, arts has never been away of my life. For example, when studying Chemistry, we were required to memorize and draw the molecular shapes of molecules which are referre...

I narrowly defined cultures as norms and languages of different countries or districts until reading Snow’s work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , as I had never thought of that humanities and sciences could be addressed as cultures as well.   http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/26/science/27angi02_650.jpg In his work, Snow described how the two cultures, arts and sciences, had been separated for decades especially in England due to educational specializations. And I believed that this phenomenon still significantly exists now since as an international student who considered both the UK and the US as the destiny for college, I personally leaned towards the latter one because of the same reason. I was looking for a liberal arts education which allows for more possibilities and I had heard of how hard it could be to transfer to another major or shift to another study area in English universities once one got admitted. http://studyabroad.shiksha.co...

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