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I thought plastic surgery was much more recent.  it’s been popular this last couple of years. People have been getting multiple. I couldn’t imagine going under the knife hundreds of years ago. I do think of plastic surgery as a type of art. The way they can reconstruct a person's face is true art. It takes great skill.  The way medical machinery can show us these very advanced images of bones or muscles is art.   Sports Medicine in New york   Like Professor Vesna mentioned Technology has advanced so that we can see into the human body without cutting it open. Being an athlete I’ve has so many injuries in which I’ve had to get an MRI or X-ray.  So, medical technology has been crucial to my athletic career. It has allowed the doctors to know what was wrong with me so that they can fix it quickly. There is technology now where an athlete can be completely hooked up and every movement they make can be seen on the computer so see how their body is mo...

I attended the lecture with Lina Weintraub. The title of the lecture was WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism and contemporary art. To be honest I had no idea what that meant when I saw it I just knew I needed to go to an event. I didn’t think I would find it interesting and I was just praying I would stay awake for the entire lecture. When I walked in I was greeted with chips and guacamole so I quickly changed my mind on me not being interested. Linda Weintraub started her lecture explaining how she got involved in art. She told us how she was talking to a friend about some new property she had recently got and told him “It’s beautiful.” He responded, “Is that all?”  She then went on a quest to see what else land could be. When she said they guy asked her that I thought to myself what else did he want her to say. I felt like it’s beautiful was sufficient. It wasn’t until later in her lecture I too understood what else land could be. Weintraub's land during the winter We...

I was really excited to see that we were talking about robots today. Robots are all around us and in everything we do. Robots make our life easier but when they were first created they made some people’s lives more stressful. Machines and robots have started to take over in a sense. They have taken people's job away but they can work so much faster and require no training.  They a programmed with very specific and detailed code they tell them how to complete many tasks in a timely manner.  I found it interesting that in lecture Professor Vesna mentioned that the name robot came from the work robota meaning  “work”. ABB robot production line In Walter Benjamin’s 1939 essay, he talks about the reproduction of art work and how machines have ruined the “aura” of art.  He states that due to mechanical reproduction art work lacks, “its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.” Douglas Davis  states in his essay th...

I always knew that math and art went hand and hand. I have never gone into this much thought on why. In art, you may want to use math to make dimensions or making shapes. In Lecture Professor mentions that Leonardo da Vinci the master of fusing mathematics and art together believed that, Perspective is a rational demonstration by which experience confirms that the images of all things are transmitted to the eye by pyramidal lines. Perspective allows the artist to be able to draw something on a piece of flat paper and still look three dimensional. “Relativity” by M.C. Escher                  In the very famous art piece “Relativity” by M.C. Escher we can see how art and math work to together make an amazing picture. Escher can incorporate perspective to make it appear that the staircases in the picture are defying gravity. There seem to be 3 different gravity sources in the same picture. The char...

C.P Snow in 1959 delivered a lecture about the separation of art and science. He introduced the concept of two cultures.  C.P snow was an English author and physicist. He held important positions in the British government.  He believed that schools and universities were the problem. I am a Sociology major. Which is considered north campus (arts and humanities). As much as I would like to say I want nothing to do with south campus (math and science) I believe my major is influenced by the two cultures regardless. Sociology is the study of human society and social problems. Therefore, is fall as north campus. north campus. I still use what I learned in stats for my sociology classes today.  No side of campus is better than the other. They both have things to offer. C.P Snow brings up how he wanted to first call his lecture rich and poor and how to understand both cultures would make things better. Just like each side of Campus has something to offer. The world cannot funct...