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  Nanotechnology and Art   Prodromakis, Themis. “Five Ways Nanotechnology Is Securing Your Future.” Phys.org , Phys.org, 22 Mar. 2016, phys.org/news/2016-03-ways-nanotechnology-future.html.  What is  Nanotechnology? In this week's lecture Dr. Gimzewski introduces us to the term, “Nanotechnology” and its integration with art.Nanotechnology term was first used in 1974  to describe a “semiconductor process such as thin film depositions and ion beam milling” (Nanotech Lecture Part 1).  Nanotechnology is science, and technology being conducted on a nanoscale, 1-100 nanometers. In simpler terms nanotechnology is viewing things on a tiny scale and being able to move the atoms arounds to create new things. The nanoscale is extremely small, nano means one-billionth, so one can only imagine how  tiny the scale is.  Nanotechnology is used in our everyday products, such as clothing, computers, even the sunscreen we wear.  Clothing:  Nanoparticl...

 Week 7: Neuroscience + Art  Dreams: “What Happens in Your Brain While You Dream?”  The Sleep Matters Club , 20 May 2021, www.dreams.co.uk/sleep-matters-club/what-happens-in-your-brain-while-you-dream.  In this week's lecture, the professor speaks about dreams. She poses the question “What does it mean to dream?” To dream is to envision an idea that reflects one's real-life aspiration, and evokes emotions during the stages of sleep. Sigmund Freud was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. The psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes. Freud believed that dreams were real and they allowed people to express unconscious ideas. According to Freud's Dreams Theory, there is the manifest content and the latent content. The Manifest content is what is happening in the dream, the characters in the dream, the place, etc. However the Latent Content is the underlying message of the dream, the meaning....

  What is Bio Art? “Bio-Art: Science and Art in Harmony.”  SCIplanet , https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/en/Article/Details.aspx?id=12455.  This week's lectures have convinced me that anything can be considered art, there are not any “standards” one must follow to create art. Bio Art is the bridge between art and science. Joe Davis is the pioneer of Bio Art. His work includes a combination of  art and molecular biology. Joe Davis came up with ideas scientists  would have considered dangerous. One of the works created by Davis that caught my attention was the Audio Microscope. The Audio Microscope allows people to listen to living cells. He found that different organisms create different sounds depending on the species of the microorganism.  Miranda Grounds “Symbiotica.”  SymbioticA , https://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/.  Biologist Miranda Ground is one of the founders of SymioticsA, a laboratory that views biology in an artistic way to help creat...

                                                          Medicine + Technology +   Art This week's reading “Magnetic Resonance Imaging as Mirror and Portraits” examines how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essentially a form of art. “MRI images become a portrait in so far as they can look back at the viewer” (Casini, 95). My first time getting an MRI was so amazed, at how advanced the machine was, it gives a detailed picture of the inside of your body. I always wonder how people survived back then without this advanced technology. In the lecture, I was surprised when the professor stated, “ technology was not incorporated until the 20th century, and if you used tools and technology you were not considered a doctor” (Vesna, Human Body & Medical Technologies”). I cannot i...

                Robotics  The Future Robotics and technology is everywhere you look around. Years ago people would say “robots are going to be running the world,” in this day and age there are. I stayed at a hotel a few weeks ago and anytime I needed room service this robot would bring it. These robots were all over the hotel working, there were hardly any human workers. Although it is 2022 and nothing is really surprising anymore, I was amazed by the work these machines were doing. In a recent Forbes article it stated by 2025 85 million jobs will be supplanted by automation. It amazes me how now we live in a world where we can't live without technology, but there was once a time where this was looked down upon.  Hotel Robots Food Delivery Services       This week we read “The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by philosopher Walter Benjamin. In this essay, Benjamin criticizes the mechanical ...

Hello, everyone!  My name is Chayanne, and I am a 4th-Year Sociology major, Education Studies minor, which means majority of my classes are on North campus. When on campus, there are major differences between the South campus and North campus. For example, the architectural designs of the buildings, the liveliness, and even the amount of students differ between the two campuses. Whenever I went to South campus, I always felt like I was at an entirely different institution.                                                                    UCLA School of Engineering UCLA Dodd Hall The division of campuses is similar to the divide mentioned in this week’s reading, “The Two Cultures and Scientific Revolution,” written by C.P. Snow. The reading focuses on the separation of two cultures: the literary intellectuals an...