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Week 3: Robotics

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/          This week, I found the topic to be fascinating, especially in its relation to TV and movies. Robotics are something that people in movies use as a way to show what the future could be like, however like Walter Benjamin, I to believe that this industrialization of robotics is taking away people's chances to have authenticity and uniqueness (Lecture 3). For example, the new HBO show Westworld has characters who are human like robots who like many other futuristic movies, turn against their creators (Time). I find the world of Westworld to specifically take away any of the creative aspect that humans have because the “robots” are so human like that actual human life is taken granted. Ultimately showing that the more we industrialized, the harder it will be for humans to thrive and there is a potential for the robots to turn against us. http://www.curbed.com/2017/2/21/14676122/flying-car-pal-v-liberty-buy ...
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Event 1

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The first event I went to this quarter was a hands on workshop with Linda Weintraub where she showed a small group of us her exhibition at UCLA. Before we even went into the exhibition, Linda gave us some insightful information that relates to the class materials. A significant aspect of the exhibition was putting away your manufactured materials, like your phones and interacting with nature, which relates to an idea that Linda talked about called Neo-materialism. In his book, Neo-Materialism, Joshua Simon looks at the notion of neo-materialism as questioning the “material, shape, volume, scale, composition, and authorship only through the commodity character of objects” (Simon). Selfie This idea of neo-materialism relates a lot to week 2’s unit and the idea of math and art coming together. The art aspect of neo-materialism that I saw in the exhibition is found through the creative aspect of us interacting with the materials through our senses. The math in this exhibition come...
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Week 6: bioart

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Visual of Biotechnology (LinkedIn) This weeks topic was by far the most complex topic we covered because of the aspect of bioethics and if the manipulation of biology is okay in art. I think bioethics is something that is clearly important for our society because it, for the most part has the goal of helping humans. However, the debate that continues to be around is if it okay to alter biological organisms for the use of biotechnology. With that, I believe that biotechnology is important for our society because as said in Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, writer Matthew Eppinette said that “ given the fact of human frailty and the current state of medical technology, it is likely that bioethics will touch our lives or a life very near ours at some point.” This article proves the importance of biotechnology in our society as something that is helping us more than hurting us. Orlan Rewriting Western Art on Her body(UCSB)         ...
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