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Week 2: Math & Art

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https://graphicriver.net/item/firestorm-photoshop-action/13392199   I like to think that I am more of an art person, however as Professor Vesna mentioned in the lecture this week that artist as famous as Leonardo Di Vinci used math to create his pieces. Leonardo used math formulas to notice perspective, which in his studies he explained the distance between the eye and the art pieces (Vesna). This statement is particularly the case in today's time where technology is important to our culture. Technology helps people to create art every time they use a simple application like Excel and Photoshop. In my job, I work with Photoshop and I use the most basic forms of measurement and math to create my original art pieces. Without math, there would not be the preciseness needed to create these images, while technology has helped to bridge the relationship between math and art. (Kim). http://sciencefacts.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Cathode-Ray-Tube-Amusement-Devic...
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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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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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