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  Week 4 - Neuroscience + Art Frazzeto and Anker's article does a brilliant job of capturing the idea that neuroscience should not be confined within laboratories. A growing public interest in the field can be attributed to artwork that demonstrates the complexity of the brain and the importance that this organ has in our lives. I was immediately drawn to the work of renowned artist Greg Dunn as a great example of engaging the public in neuroscience through an artistic medium. His portrayal of neurons is unique because it reflects the material that is used in the work. I was drawn to his microetching "Cortical Circuit Board," which was created using photolithography, the same technique used to make microchips. Dunn connects electrical engineering and neuroscience with the idea that circuits are the individual units of microchips just as neurons are the units of the brain. He implies that we are capable of learning about neurons just as we discovered how to master electric...

Gray 1      Grant Gray           Professor Victoria Vesna      Design Arts / Media 9      21 April 2024 The History We Thought We Knew Through decades of study and experimentation, biologists have been able to solve the mysteries of life, and the history of the field is one of discovery and evolution. New insights and advancements in the discipline have resulted from the ongoing challenges and revisions of our preconceived notions about the natural world. Biology keeps expanding the frontiers of our knowledge and influencing how we see the world. World war two created a huge shift in agriculture and giant modifications took place after world struggle post WWII. Farming techniques have been transformed with the aid of the arrival of the latest era and technology, which raised output and efficiency. big-scale farms ruled the panorama at some stage in this time, which additionally witnessed the emergence of bus...

  The printing press was initially conceived by the Chinese in 1040 and was subsequently reimagined in the West by Johannes Gutenberg 400 years later. This marks the beginning of the dynamic confluence between technology and art. Mechanization, particularly the assembly line that Henry Ford invented in the early 1900s, gained favor in society thanks to the printing press, which made it possible for type to move. With the help of this innovative method, Ford was able to produce cars in large numbers at competitive prices—something that was previously only considered the privilege of the affluent. But this automation spread to the rest of America's industries, and it is believed to have marked the start of a decline in innovation and uniqueness. Walter Benjamin discusses his thoughts on the detrimental impact industrialization and technology have had on art in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Artworks are also capable of being created in la...

1) Numerous elements and items in our everyday environment include mathematics. Science can view space using anything from a cent, the tiniest item, to a big telescope. Abbot explained in Flatland that if we place a penny on a table we see a circle from afar and if we “drawback to the edge of the table, the penny [will] become more and more oval to your view, till you are so far [that] you can see, a straight line” (Abbot 2). I was able to learn that mathematics influenced science in the way that the creations we use daily can be seen as one-dimensional and hold a geometrical form of a shape. Al, Milena Damrau et. “Wooden Mathematics – Making Abstraction Tangible.”  W/k - Zwischen Wissenschaft & Kunst , Dec. 2022.  between-science-and-art.com , https://between-science-and-art.com/wooden-mathematics-making-abstraction-tangible/. 2) By explaining the exact processes he takes to be able to use mathematical laws to create what was once a flat pink square into a real rose, orig...

  Hello everyone, my name is Grant Gray. I am a first-year student with an undeclared major. I was born in Riverside, about an hour and a half from the University of Los Angeles, California. I am a football and baseball athlete here at the university and here is how I feel about the cultures between science and technology.       CP Snow first proposed the concept of "two cultures" in his 1959 lecture. These cultures are typically classified as either literary intellectuals or physical and natural scientists. The long-standing division between the humanities and sciences—evident even at UCLA, where students are segregated into North and South campuses based on their program of study—is notoriously facilitated by higher education. But in contrast to John Brockman, who thinks the two cultures ought to stay apart, I think the world culture we live in today is moving toward a third culture that depends on the construction of a bridge between the two departments. My m...