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      This week's lecture videos were very interesting and eye-opening to me. To see the true fascination with the human body and to seek out knowledge about how things worked amazed me. Professor Vesna discussed some very interesting topics regarding the bridge between humans and technology using the medical world. As stated in the Part 4 lecture, our society has been connecting humans to technology for far longer than I had realized. Learning about Kevin Warwick and how he implanted a chip into his arm for the ability to control technology through his brain signals is fascinating and incredible.      This connection opens up a question regarding the future of prosthetics for people across the world. When will people be able to use prosthetics fully connected to their brains with more additional features? Art design has already allowed prosthetics to look more human-like but when will technology increase the abilities of these prosthetics? We have the powe...

  From Forms to Forces: Repairing Nature      This past weekend I attended the third and final Forms to Forces on "Repairing Nature" and was very interested in the pieces that were touched upon.      The most interesting piece to me was the one by Ursula Endlicher. She was able to use food and code to tie with art. The idea behind the piece was that each row of vegetables represented a different line of code and essentially an edible HTML tag for that plant. These six vegetables used were previously planted at t he Marble House Project residency where she got her idea.     The concept behind this was very intriguing and made me think about everywhere code is essentially run. We constantly use code without knowing it and when you take a step back and look, code runs everything. This is part of the reason it's considered a language for most people. It connects us to every aspect of life and we forget this. It brings me back to the le...

      Thus far we have covered the two cultures, math + art, and now, robotics + art in lecture. We have analyzed how art can be combined with various processes to create meaningful products and this week we have explored the realm of robotics.      Robots have allowed the human race to effectively increase productivity and carry out tasks at a faster rate than humans could safely. Robots are the next step in the world of industrialization, and as Professor Vesna showed in the lecture, Henry Ford started this wave with the assembly line. Assembly lines have progressed from being used for automobile production to the production of nearly every good used today thanks to Mr. Ford.     However, the world of robotics is taking a slight shift into a more real-world ap plication. Robots are now being explored to have more humanistic features and given newer uses rather than production. As  Professor Machiko Kusahara explained, the ability to humaniz...

  Week 2 - Math + Art Following this weeks lectures, I learned that the line between math and art is much less blured than I previously throught. The idea mentioned in Professor Vesna's lecture that math is its own language is something that I have heard but never truly connected with until now. We can see the math world of  Good Will Hunting  with its own language that Will seems to understand when he solves the problem on the board outside of the lecture hall. Some people are truly blessed to understand and communicate in these languages.   In the same sense, art can be its own language for those who truly understand it. The ability to openly communicate about what material is being used or the stitch placement is foreign to those who have never experienced it, but feels like home to many. This is much like the ideas that were brough up in Kate McKinnon's video on  Contemporary Geometric Beadwork . The linkages and cycling machines mentioned were unknown to me...

  Week 1- Two Cultures From a very young age, I have always been drawn to art. My mother was an art major in college and used to show me various pieces that she had created over the years. I was fascinated by this aspect of life until I was exposed to the wonders that science held. Fast forward to high school, by this time I had taken every engineering and art class offered by my school, and I was a proud member of the robotics club. I was able to take all the fun things I had learned about art and use them in engineering classes. My classmates and I were able to help input and design the arena used in robotics competitions to make it look more fluid and pleasing. Heading into college I expected to enjoy the same freedoms in class choices that I previously had in high school. I thought I could reach into both sides of the culture and take what I wanted. Yet, unfortunately, CP Snow's idea that the two cultures are polar opposites was even more correct in college. I instead was force...