HaoFDesma9: 十月 2013

2013年10月27日星期日

Week 4 Medicine+Technology+Art

This week's topic is truly associate with my major, which is Physiological Science, so it is really amazing when I see so many examples of art in medicine. Actually I do consider human body and medicine as art and that is one reason I choose to study my major. Human body is amazingly artistic works done by the great nature. It is surprising to know that technology are not introduced to hospital until 20th century. Nowadays, technology plays the most important role in modern medical practices. There are also so many medical practices are considering as art.

Plastic surgery would be the number one medical practice comes to my mind when we are discussing medical and art. There are so many people make themselves more beautiful with that technic. People are born different and some of them may not like the look nature gives them. I do think that it is ok to take plastic surgery to make them feel better.

Thousands of surgery are also considering as art. Take ERCP as an example, which stands for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography, it can solve problems associate with intestines without digging a hole on your belly. I bet nobody ever think people can give surgery to people without blood before ERCP comes out.
Human body and medical practices are so fascinating and amazing that makes me fall in love with it. I would say that these things are truly art works.

Citation:

Vesna, Victoria. "Medicine pt2." Cole UC online. Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Oct. 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ>.

Vesna, Victoria. "Medicine pt3." Cole UC online. Youtube, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Oct. 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>.

Summitgastro. N.d. Photograph. summitgastroenterologyWeb. 28 Oct 2013. <http://www.summitgastro.com/endoscopic-procedures/ercp>.

body-art. N.d. Photograph. intellectual developmentWeb. 28 Oct 2013. <http://lookmind.com/illusions.php?id=1715&cat=4>.

data blog. N.d. Photograph. UK plastic surgery statisticsWeb. 28 Oct 2013. <http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/30/plastic-surgery-statistics-uk>.

2013年10月20日星期日

Week 3 Robotics+Arts

From the previous weeks' lectures, I noticed that art is always leading by development of science. As I thought that would be a universal concept, I find out that this week's concept of robotics and arts is an exception. It is that artistic characteristic of art that leaded robotics to change and make improvement.
The story between robotics and art should start from the very early years when printing press was invented by Chinese. From what I learn in middle school history text book, the very first printing press are segregative by characters. That way does make it easier to composing, but it is hard to line up every single character. Therefore, the lack of artistic has driven it to make improvement from segregative characters to a continuous way.

As we have been told from the lecture, japanese has a great robotic culture. The famous comic character 'atom' is the symbol of japanese robotics. Robotics actually does not looks like human at the very beginning. Later on, some people have the idea of adding a face to robotics. Since then, people find out that robots should have a happy faee rather than a cruel one since the beauty of the face makes people like it.

From the movie Transformers, we would notice that those robots are not only designed to be powerful but also graceful. They are composed of luxury cars and they looks muscular and strong after they transformed. Apparently, robotics culture is following the trace of art to improve its influence.

Citations:

Wallpapers Robotics Robot Girl. N.d. Photograph. n.p. Web. 20 Oct 2013. <www.wallsave.com>.

Art of Printing. 2007. Photograph. Show ChinaWeb. 20 Oct 2013
<http://www.showchina.org/zt/zggdfm/sdfm/200808/t209613.htm>.

Transformers. N.d. Photograph. iMDbWeb. 20 Oct 2013. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/>.

History, Henan Education Bureau. 20 Oct 2013

Kusahara, Machiko, dir. Professor Machiko Kusahara on japanese robotics. Dir. Victoria Vesna . 2013. Web. 20 Oct 2013. <https://cole2.uconline.edu/courses/63226/wiki/unit-3-view?module_item_id=970429>.

2013年10月13日星期日

HaoFDesma9 Week 2

Before taking the class this week. I do hold the opinion that math and art has nothing to do with each other. I don't have any ideas that math could associate with art until I read the article, The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher, which is talking about mathematical art like Tessellations, polyhedra and the space of the art. I was amazed that science could enlighten the creation of art even though I have learned the connection between two cultures. Math and art are just like the pic below, they are obvious two worlds but they do have something in common.

The golden ratio could be the best example of how math associates with art. As we could see, the such as the Parthenon in Greece is built under the golden ratio of approximately 1.618. Which is the reason it is so beautiful and artistic. There is also golden rectangle which is applied by Da Vinci in his world famous painting Monalisa. Her face's ratio, which is the length and the width, is perfect known as the golden rectangle. That should be the secret of her smile.

Juxtaposition are two unlike things next to each other, it normally has the quality of being unexpected. "My life is a juxtaposition". I still remember the word from my math teacher who double majors in Mathematics and Design. He said that rational thinking of learning math has helped her with designing when she running out of ideas. I believe that is the case where science meet art. It is beautiful.

Citations:

When used properly, juxtaposition can be informative or even humorous.. 2010. Photograph. detritusreviewWeb. 14 Oct 2013. <http://detritusreview.blogspot.com/2010/04/juxtaposition.html>.

Howard, Solomons. Mona Lisa's Smile. 2005. Photograph. The beauty of the Golden RatioWeb. 14 Oct 2013. <http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ05063/phibeauty3.htm>.

Parthenon in Greece. N.d. Photograph. Golden RatioWeb. 14 Oct 2013. <http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/golden-ratio.html>.

Lan, Han. "Middle School Math." Lecture. Zhengzhou Foreign Language School. Zheng Zhou. 2006.

Escher , M.C.. "The Mathematical Art of M.C.Escher ."Platonic Realms Minitexts. N.p.. Web. 14 Oct 2013. <http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/>.

2013年10月6日星期日

HaoFDesma9 Week 1

As a UCLA student who takes Desma 9 and Life Science 1 at the same quarter, I could definitely see and experience the differences and connections between art and science. Learning science in a second language will not be something that is pretty fun. I am an international student study Physiological science in a foreign country. A big part of my motivation is the artistic aspect of science.

http://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/Isaac_Newton.html

This picture shows the light refraction, which is the principle of rainbow formation. I can still remember my middle school physics teacher showed me the light refraction and how amazed I was back in that time. I could still remember his word. "It seems that science is so useful that we could keep rainbow in our hand"This experiment raised my interest toward science and it totally inspired me to be dedicated for science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tommaisey/Renaissance_draft

The picture above is the famous Vitruvian drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was drawn by ink and pen on a paper that shows a male with the perfect body proportion. This is totally a combination of science and art.

Kevin Kelly, in the article "The Third Culture", do think that Technology is seizing the world and going to become the third culture(131-132). But in my point of view, science and art still have the world just as he says. "The cultural center of Western civilization has pivoted around the arts, with science orbiting at a safe distance.". (9-11)The perfect example of Kevin's word would be the European Renaissance and the Industrial revolution. People usually think of them independently but if we make a deeper think we would find that people get inspired during the Renaissance and that is the basic stuff for people to perform the Industrial revolution later.