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Medicine has long been influenced by art and technology as presented by professor Vesna. Today modern medicine has been absolutely reconstructed and redesigned since the times when our only entrance to the inside was cadavers. With the help of technology, we have been able to create MRI machines or CAT scans and we have even come as far as to become cyborgs thanks to Kevin Warwick. MRI Scan In Diane Gromalas ted talk she talks of how technology has become medicine. Through virtual reality we have been able to successfully relieve, if not basically cure, chronic pain systems. I was shook to the core once i learned about this. I had no idea that we could incorporate something like virtual reality into medicine. Another concept we touched on was arts power in medicine. Virtual Reality Cosmetic surgery in itself is an art form. In today's society, our looks are like covers of books; we cling to the pretty ones. Unfortunately, we associate our appearance to our worth or lik...

The Broad Art Center offers so many amazing creative pieces, but one, in particular, was truly a masterpiece. I am referring to Jordan Wolfson's Female Figure exhibit. The Female Figure is an immersive environment that features a robotic sculpture. For seven minutes, the robot gives monologues and dances to pop songs like lady gaga. Startling and unnerving, the work raises the specter of misogyny and exposes fissures in pop culture. It challenges the ways women are represented, and the ways images of women are consumed. Watching this performance was mesmerizing, I could not take my eyes off of her. The female figure had the ability to lock and maintain eye contact which I thought was pretty amazing. It was a little frightening at first because the robot had such precise mannerisms and movements that made them flow so effortlessly and not mechanical at all. I got chills just watching her do its thing because it seemed so real. The insane technology behind this robot is...

The industry of robotics has been one of deferred variation and ambiguous representation. Robots in the media have been portrayed as villains, friends, helpers or the classic example of humans being treated as such: mechanic. We have discussed this variety of portrayals from the lecture videos by our professor Vesna but reinforced by our guest lecturer Machiko Kusahara as she talks about robots in Japan and their great contributions to perceptions of robots. She highlights Kenji Yanobe work of the astronaut looking robot that could easily be seen as a human robot. Kenji Yanobe. For some reason there was this one movie that kept popping into my mind when i was thinking of related topic. This movie was Chappie. In this movie Chappie is a stolen police robot in a dystopian futuristic sci fi movie who is given new programming. Originally the movie set out to set up the police robots has a character to despise. As the movie progressed the audience grew an emotional connection to th...

When I envision art, I automatically think of paintings or sculptures, but I never really question how that art piece came to be. This week I learned how math and art influence each other. Professor Vesna emphasized this concept heavily in her lecture video while touching on concepts like the golden ratio. Even though I could follow her spoken concept, I think what really engrained this concept in my head was visuals of math and art working together shown by many of the artists I will discuss in the following. Art, created by mathematical positioning. Nathan Selikoff’s exhibition of the sound activated clock really helped me see math and art literally working together. The clock's hands reflecting voice waves as people made noise was extremely fascinating to me and gave that visual representation that connected math and art. Another art piece that really got me to consider maths influence on art was the swinging pendulum. I've seen pendulums before, but it never really o...