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DESMA 9 Week 2 Blog

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    Making Art From Equations     This week's lecture is about the convergence of Math and Art.  As a significant part, or even "base" of all science, math plays a pivotal role in all aspects of life, even art!  In anything from a detailed drawing, to graphic design, to architecture, math is at work in tandem with art.  Especially nowadays, art is being taken to whole new lengths beyond just a palette and a canvas. Designers are now able to use computers to develop their own unique styles of art that help bring their craft into the technologically advanced 21st century.  This first article i read summed this all up pretty well: "Art is illusion, and transformations are important in creating illusion." These transformations are only made possible by the computers and the mathematics behind the computers that help this art come to life.          I still remember the following TED talk that I came across years ago, ...
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DESMA 9 Event 3 ---- LASER

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    Last week I attended Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) on Thursday, May 25th. In this event, artists and scientists were together to promote collaboration between two fields. There were six speakers, each with a five minute presentation, each of which gave me unique ideas of how art and science come together as something better. Here I will write about the ones that impress me the most. {LASER website: http://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1321} Claudia Schnugg : As an independent researcher in intersections of art and aesthetics with science, technology, and business, and producer of art and science collaboration, Dr. Schnugg's recent work focuses on intertwining artists and art projects with new technologies and scientific research. She has explored effects of artistic interventions on social settings, especially framing artistic interventions and art programs in organizations. According to Dr. Schnugg, the interest in what art can do and which role aestheti...
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    This week's lecture touched on a number of different topics including physical and genetic manipulation of the human body for artistic purposes.  This idea rings true in Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr's Victimless Leather (depicted to the right), which is a work of art in which cells are not only living, but they are also multiplying.  In fact, they were producing at such a rapid rate that the machine would barely hold all of the newborn cells.  This is but one example of how Biotechnology can double as art. There is so much beauty behind science that people often forget about the art behind the innovation.     Another thing that was brought up in lecture was the issue of genetic mutation. Now, this is cause for great concern when it comes to the ethics behind genetic mutation.  In my opinion, we need to be very careful about how we allocate genetic mutation, because if we are not careful, we will end up creating a new race of beautiful, ...
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