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Week 4 Blog: Medicine + Technology + Art As professor Vesna discusses in her first lecture, human dissection was practiced during the Renaissance era in order to understand the human body on a much deeper and detailed level. During this time, doctors and artists were able to collaborate together in order to further their knowledge about the human body. The human anatomy has always been a fascinating subject to study and even today doctors are finding new methods to help benefit humanity in various ways. It has also helped us to understand life on a cellular/molecular level, giving us the basic building blocks of what us humans are built upon.                                                Book explaining anatomy and dissection. Professor Vesna continues by saying how the evolution in technology has changed how we look at our own anatomy. X–rays, CAT scans, and M...

Event 1 Blog- Laser Lecture While the event started off with Haytham Nawar's presentation of Collective Bread Diaries, the following presentations were nothing like his, but at the same time had many similarities and parallels. This event showed us the different ways we communicate, or how much communication we miss out on. Nawar's bread presentation helped us realize the many different things bread stands for. He told us that bread is huge in every country and most have different meanings. I was also able to understand how the drawing machines were able to learn from human expression and create its own way of art. While Bill Fontana spoke about his studies in acoustic sounds from all over the world I was really interested in the many different places he has explored to. What really intrigued me was when he was talking about the differences of sounds and what certain sounds can tell you versus other sounds. The most interesting and inspirational presentation of ...

Week 2 Blog: Math + Art When reading Edwin Abbott's  Flatland,  there is an interesting explanation of the relationship between math and art. Abbott further explains how the perspectives of the objects we observe change our view of them, and also explains how they view each other. In  Flatland  the main character, dubbed A Square, struggles living in a two–dimensional life. By understanding the concept of dimensions, A Square is able to connect with members of these different dimensions. This resembles the theme last week that highlighted the stratification of society. In  Flatland,  A Square is able to analyze different dimensions similarly to how C. P. Snow dissected the two polar groups of the sciences and the humanities in  The Two Cultures. Flatland  uses geometric shapes to help explain this idea of how members of different dimensions are able to identify and communicate with one another—"through the sense of hearing, the sense of feeling,...

Week 1 Blog In  The Two Cultures,  C.P. Snow focused his discussion on the split in society's culture. He claimed that the two distinct cultures were the sciences and the humanities. On the scientific spectrum, Snow defines this as one that is "not only in an intellectual [culture] but also in an anthropological sense" (Snow 10). In contrast, the humanity culture is "impoverish" and "vainer;" "they like to pretend the traditional culture is the whole of 'culture,' as though natural order didn't exist" (Snow 15). Snow continues by saying that their ignorance makes them "tone–deaf" and causes them to miss out on the beauties of life. Snow blames the educational system for this divide in culture, which is something extremely relatable in today's society. At UCLA, and probably at most educational institutions, the campus itself is split into two distinct sectors—North campus and South campus. If you drew a horizont...