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The event I went to was Puy on by Linda Weintraub. She was really passionate about having people use their bodies naturally, and experiencing natural sensations that we do not get to experience much of any more. She asked each of us how much walking we do on natural surfaces (hiking, sand, rocks etc.) Out of the 20 people at the event, only about 4 of them spent more than 5% of their time on natural surfaces. She then began to talk about how machines are making our lives easier, but people are not using their bodies full potential. Human bodies had to use to their maximum ability, and humans relied on all of their senses. In her exhibit, she tries to bring back the uses of human senses by using 5 different stations. At each station you took a box, and followed the instructions on the box. Below is a map of the different stations.  The picture below is a map of the exhibit.  The one in the top right side of the poster was form and beauty. At this station th...

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated with the human body, and what is inside of it. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians used to dissect human bodies after the passing, and use them as art. The Greeks used their findings to create anatomy, while the Egyptians took pride in taking their time to mummify the body of the dead.  (Courtesy of:  Science  Photo Library) (Courtesy of:  Dissection of a cadaver, 15th century painting) This fascination had lasted all the way up to present day. Now we have exhibits like Body Worlds, that take parts of donated bodies, and put them on display for people to see. This crossover between art, medicine and technology has allowed many scientist to discover fascinating things about the human body, ,and to therefore turn around and create inventions that go along with their findings. For example, in Diane Gromala’s TED talk, she talks about her artistic inventions that interact with the human body. She created a meat...

Davis Douglas starts out his journal by stating, “There is no clear conceptual distinction now between original and reproduction in virtually any medium based in film, electronics, or telecommunications.” Movies are now being remade, and are not really original. Paintings are now becoming less original because there is only one copy, and that one copy is usually found in museums. Copy’s of the paintings are sold around the world for cheap, and make the actual painting less valuable. Walter Benjamin brings the issue of technology into this argument saying that technology doesn't have a positive impact on art due to mass production. Technology has helped art a tad because many people have been able to see art pieces through the internet without having to travel across the world to see them, but they are also able to copy it for free. Art has lost a lot of money due to this, and has been seen less and less original. Victoria Vesna agrees with both Douglas and Benjamin in her second p...

It is always mesmerizing looking at a piece of art and appreciating it for what it is right in front of you. In Victoria Vesna’s lecture “ Mathematics-pt1-Zero Perspective Golden Mean ” shows all many different techniques artist put in their work behind the scenes. One of the main points of the lecture that grabbed my attention was “The Golden Ratio” which is the ultimate connection between the actual art of a drawing, painting, portrait etc. and the mathematics. This rule has been around for centuries, and we have began to see it being drawn out into other occupation, like architecture and engineering.  (Courtesy of: http://www.losingblueprint.com) The novel “ Flatland ” by Edwin A. Abbott really made his reader open their eyes on perspective. The main character, A. Square is in a two dimensional world when he is taken on a series of trips and daydreams through other dimensions. he realized that the two dimensional world he lives in isn't the only world out ther...

UCLA’s campus, like many other campuses around the nation, is divided by art majors and math/science majors. At UCLA the north is considered the artsy campus, and the south is considered the math and science campus. The buildings in the middle of campus that separate the north and south are the majors that don’t really fit into either of the categories (sociology, history etc.). Vesna highlights this idea in her article, Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between . The idea of a triangle, and the point of the triangle being these ideologies that don’t fit in one extreme categories or the other, or are a combination of the two. For example, I am a sociology major, and I have taken a stats class, a design class, a biology class, and a poetry class. My major requires art, technology, math and science.  ( Courtesy of U.C.L.A. : http://www.ucla.edu/pdf/ucla-campus-map.pdf ) While Brockman may argue that both extremes will never need to come together, the modern education s...