Event 3

The Museum of Jurassic Technology:

The Museum of Jurassic Technology was by far the most interesting museum I have visited. The unique ora that was inside the museum made it one of a kind. Although we were not allowed to take photos in the museum, the person at the front of the exhibit handed my classmate and I a paper that had summarized the main focus of the museum: To be experienced with new senses and and lead to new things through your own mind.

When I walked in I sensed some musky wet smell. The lighting in the museum was also different as well, it was darker than usual with different lighting from the roof. There was a voice recording that played throughout the museum as well as animal noises. Even though anything that was being said through the speakers didn't really relate to the things I was seeing, it related back to the paper that I read when I walked in. This museum allowed me to walk in and sense things myself and make my own inference. The quote on the paper read "The learner must be led away from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it-were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

Something that I take from the class that related to the museum was the dog pictures displayed throughout an area. To me, it seemed as if the photos of the dogs were recognizing the importance of sending the first non human organism to the moon. This specific idea was covered in week 9 where the topic was space and art. In lecture 3 they talked about the Russians sending a dog named Laika into space but it only living for 6 days. They wanted to monitor the dog in space to see how that environment would affect the dogs body. What really intrigued me was all the photos that the museum had displayed of the dog as if we were looking at its gravesite. It seemed to be that here was the recognition that the dog received after passing away from going into space. Overall, I thought that this museum was frankly a "weird" museum. Going off of that, I think this is why I enjoyed the museum so much. It was not an ordinary museum and instead it put the audience in through different sensations than that of a normal museum. I would defiantly recommend this to a classmate or friend who is in search of something different and new. 

(Below here is a photo I searched on the internet of Laika since we were not allowed to take photographs in the museum) 

http://www.pawsforthenews.tv/1news/1featured-news/in-history-today-november-3rd-in-1957-the-soviet-union-launches-the-first-animal-into-space/

Event 2

The Getty

I took a visit to the Getty museum about a year ago before I was enrolled in Desma9. When I went for the second time after learning some new concepts from this class, I had a totally new outlook on the pieces of art. I found that I was able to incorporate what I learned from the lectures with the actual pieces displayed in the museum. For example, I was able to apply the idea of a focal point with linear perspective on some of the oil paintings which has to do with the mathematics and art week. I was also able to see a microscope from 1751 that was shown on display which signified to me the intertwining of art and science. Overall, the visit I had to the Getty the second time had much more of a knowledgeable impact on me than when I first had gone without the knowledge I now know from Dismal.

This picture here to left was taken by myself at the Getty. This is a oil on canvas of the Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flamgini to Campo San Marcuola. The moment I walked up to this painting I noticed the depth perception and I was able to relate it to what we learned in unit 2 regarding math and art. This oil painting showed the idea of Duccio's linear perspective where he would draw lines downward at eye level. Also you can have a focal point where you draw all the lines too which gives the painting a type of depth perspective.

This photo to the right is a Compound Microscope and Case from 1751 which was originally made for wealthy French people who enjoyed studying natural specimens. This microscope shows that something scientific can also be viewed as a piece of art. You can relate this piece to medicine and art because what a microscope is used for. Back then, the study of natural specimens became a new thing and if people were to find medical discovery's though his invention it could benefit the people. This picture at the Getty shows the importance of medicine and it can be showed in an artistic way.

I would say overall my visit to the Getty was much  more enjoyable once I knew the things I know from Desma9. I would definitely recommend this museum to anyone whose visiting the Los Angeles area.

WEEK 9

SPACE & ART

Overall in week 9's lesson, I learned that everything ties together through space weather it be nanotechnology, biotechnology, or robots.
An interesting subject of the power of 10 is what I found quite interesting in this lesson. It shows you how much your perspective could change in just 10 seconds. For example, the zooming out of a picnic in Chicago. After they zoom out, it zooms back in all the way to the skin of the mans hand and enters in lymphocyte. These are the nucleus of the white blood cells.

In lecture 1 the sky is seen upon a magnificent piece. Carl Sagan is who first sought of cosmos being popular and has a video called the pale blue dot.
Copernicus is an Astronomer who believed that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth rotated around the sun on an axis. I thought that this was interesting because Copernicus was afraid that he would get in trouble with the church if he spread his idea of the solar system, so instead he remained quiet about it and later spoke.

I thought lecture 3 was interesting because it had to do with animals going into space. They first sent a dog Laika into space but it only lived 6 days. They wanted to monitor the dog in space to see how the body changes. Later on, the United States trained an animal that was more similar to the human body, a chimp, and took some to space. These were the largest animals to go into space.

In Lecture 5 it described the first non governmental space craft launched into space which was something new. The idea was to develop lower cost space travel even though more than 100 million dollars were invested to new technologies.


"8 Space Pt1 1280x720." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 31 May 2015
"8 Space Pt2 1280x720." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 31 May 2015.

WEEK 7: NEUROSCIENCE & ART

When I think of the human brain I immediately think of a control center for the entire body. I compare this part of the body as if it is the controller for a television set. This day in age there are so many medical advances and the most progressed area is in the neuroscience are. After taking Philosophy 7 course here at UCLA, it has opened me up to the idea of conscious and unconscious thought that the mind can go though. These ideas that philosophers explore can be deep and overwhelming but I believe that the mind is a form of art because of the many states it can endure.

http://www.mindmotivations.com/articles/different-states-mind

In lecture 1 it talked about the idea of conscious and unconscious states, these are two interesting concepts. A conscious state is described as something you are aware of. For example, if you are sewing a piece of cloth and you prick your finger, you're going to feel that pain and react in a way of discomfort. Whereas when you are in an unconscious state you are unaware of what is going on for example, being in a coma. 

http://adamnannini.com/2014/04/03/writing-unconscious/

Ramon i Cajal is one of the most famous known artist/scientists. Ramon first grew up wanted to be a artist and found himself later as the father of modern neuroscience. He would look at scans of neurons and dendrites and sketch them as his own art pieces. He found fulfillment in science and began to integrate art with his obsession. He mostly drew dendrites of synapses information. I find this interesting because the brain has so many different factors it controls and Ramon i Cajal focus on the smallest factor yet the most effectual part of the body and draws these images as art pieces. 

https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/the-discovery-of-the-neuron/

Works Cited 

Lecture 1

Lecture 2 

Lecture 3

"Swann’s Hypothesis." The New York Times. The New York Times, 03 Nov. 2007. Web. 24 May 2015.

WEEK 8

When I first read the description of this Unit's subject I was a little confused on what it could incorporate. So, I watched all the lecture videos and the one video that stuck on to me was the lecture video about the Blue Morpho and the idea of nanophotonics.

http://darwinsbeard.net/2014/10/04/scintillating-cells/

Dr. Gimzewski expressed the idea of nano photonics which the ability to notice color change in something as well as nontoxic pigmentation, differing from he usual pigmentation color change. The whole idea is thought that a blue morph should be back and show no color. But instead, it shows to the natural eye the color of blue. What's going on inside these Morpho's wings? In the inside of the wing, there's "christmas tree" protein structures in which light manipulates on the nanoscale therefore reflecting a blue shade.

(This here is an example of nano photonics, the zoomed in picture is of a data chip)

http://thefutureofthings.com/3518-worlds-tiniest-nanophotonic-switch/

It is amazing to me that nature can affect these cells and make them go through a process naturally to give off a different color. I think that this idea of nano photonics completely goes along with art in a way it is a natural way of displaying something organic in another natural way. Thorugh this unit it has opened me up to a whole new subject of art and not just the display of the visual attributes, but also the way in which the art is displayed like through nano photonics.

http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=3616

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Works Cited
Nanotech for Artists Part- Dr. Gimzewski
Nanotech for Artists Part 3- Dr. Gimzewski
Nanotech for Artists Part 4- Dr. Gimzewski
Nanotech for Artists Part 6- Dr. Gimzewski
"DNA Folding, in Detail." Paul Rothemund:. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2015.

Week 6: Art an Biotechnology

The incorporation of genomics to art appears to me as the most interesting concept only because you can look at two different living species and intertwine them through genomics. For example, an artist (Edurado Kac) can take their own genetics and incorporate them into a flowers genetics which connects two different species.

 http://www.ekac.org/kac.nat.hist.enigma.01.jpg

When I think of a gene I think of the most simplest unit in life which makes up the entire universe. And what is the most appealing to is the massive connecter that a gene is within everything. The genome project does not just create new life, it also saves lives as well.

 http://ethicsandsociety.org/2015/04/10/is-the-moratorium-on-editing-the-human-genome-ethically-justifiable/

Scientists use genetics to advance life, health, and efficiency. Artists use genetics to connect life, culture, and well-being. These two very different ideas can both be looked at in similarity. For instance, the genome project involves genetic material, DNA. Each and every person has their very own composition of DNA. However, they are stemmed from their parents. Barry Schuler, artist, spoke at a TED talk and thought of the genome project and DNA has a USB. Interestingly enough, he is right. You are walking around, on the daily, with your own USB of DNA that came from combining your parents own USB’s.

http://www.litandart.com/2008/01/30/the-art-science-phenomenon/

Art and science are connected by seeing the beauty, in even the smallest thing, like the smallest unit of DNA. However, Barry connects art, science, and technology by expanding on the idea that the genome project is a container full of genetic material.

Lecture 1, Vesa Vanessa

Lecture 2, Vesa Vanessa 

"GFP BUNNY." GFP BUNNY. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 May 2015.

"Genomics 101." Barry Schuler:. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 May 2015.

Lecture video part 1

Lecture video part 2

Unit 4

The idea of the human body going through biotechnology and nanotechnology is what caught me with the most interest. When I think of science and technology influencing medicine I instantly think of medical machines such as a CT scan, an MRI, or a X-ray. All these different machines are a way in which the medical field can advance their way of medicine through science and technology. 

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mri-scan/pages/introduction.aspx

Above I mentioned several scans that are used in the medical field, in which all of them allow doctors to basically see inside your body. Say for instance you have a broken femur, a X-Ray will show this bone in a matter or its misplacement and the radiologists will notice the difference. This is where you can see the correlation between science and technology which would be the X-Ray machine influencing medicine which is the distinguished broken femur. 

 http://boneandspine.com/xray-fracture-shaft-femur/

After watching the Artificial Intelligence trailer it was interesting to me that the technology we are advanced with today is now becoming suitable for people to be able to make a machine that has emotion. This clearly shows me how the linkage of technology and medicine have combined making a robot that can receive and give emotion to others. 

"Artificial Intelligence Trailer HQ (2001)." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

Unit 4 "Body Medicine Intro" Vesna, Victoria 

Unit 4 "Lecture Part 1" Vesna, Victoria

Unit 4 "Lecture Part 2" Vesna, Victoria 

"Cremaster Cycle Trailer." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

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