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This week's lecture was particularly interesting to me as a premed student, who has a strong interest in art also. Professor Vesna mentioned that in the past, doctors were seen as artists, and dissection was seen as art. For me, I was always able to make that connection as well, since my concentration for AP art was a focus on human expression and form. The picture below was actually a drawing I did in high school. The reference was an anatomical skeleton model. While my proportions were not perfect at this time (or now), I was still able to appreciate the beauty of the inner workings of the human body through art. My drawing from high school. Furthermore, in Orlan's surgical performances, which is very shocking, I was also amazed by the extent to which medicine and art intersect. When it comes to plastic surgery, I often discuss the social and cultural implications, often forgetting that it is a form of art in itself. I find it fascinating that it also originated from war...

During week 1, I had the opportunity to attend this event that was held on campus. Specifically, I made it to the session that explored our relationships with our phones. We were able to pick a word card that best represented my relationship with my phone, and so I picked "obsession". We then got in groups with others who picked the same word as us, to discuss this relationship and how we would "mourn" the "death" of our phone. I found this activity to be quite interesting, as I never thought of phones as beings that would require a "burial". While my attachment to my phone is quite severe, I've always had a love-hate relationship with it. While I recognize the conveniences that smart phones have brought, I often find myself wishing that I lived in a time during which iPhones weren't invented yet. With my group, we also discussed the rise of social media, as a result of the rise of smart phones. I personally despise social me...

In Professor Vesna's lecture this week, it was fascinating to learn about the different aspects art and technology have intersected in history. One topic that fascinated me was industrialization, and how robots have steadily but surely been taking over various aspects of production in factories. A factory full of robots (https://fsmedia.imgix.net/22/6c/06/1c/d24d/4a1f/b46f/836d61c5cfb2/image-20141215-24297-6jsbmpjpg.jpeg?rect=0%2C0%2C1673%2C836&auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&w=650). The fear that people have of robots replacing humans is understandable, but in movies like Alita: Battle Angel we see that robots and humans can also live harmoniously. Also, the way robots and technology are portrayed in the movie shows off how beautiful they can be. For instance, Alita's first body was designed intricately, as it was meant to be the body of the creator's daughter. There were amazing designs and science behind it, making it both aesthetically wonderful to look at...

This week's topic was very eye opening for me, as someone who has been drawing for as long as I can remember. I started taking art lessons in elementary school, and I remember that when I first learned to draw a 3D cube, it fascinated me how it took on a new dimension on a flat piece of paper. The way I was taught to draw looked much like the images illustrated in "Vanishing Points and Looking at Art", where I find the vanishing point and draw perspective lines to guide my final drawing. This tecnhique illustrates how we can get realistic and mathematically correct drawings.  During this week's lecture, I learned about how 3D paintings and perspectives was discovered earlier on. Because I had always drawn in 3 dimensions, it is difficult for me to imagine a period of time when these techniques had not been discovered. The idea of erspective was not discovered in the West unil later 13th century (https://www.101computing.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/perspective-va...

Three years ago, I was applied to colleges when my mother shot down the idea of me going to art school, so I chose my more "acceptable" passion—medicine. When I read about the "two cultures" in Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between, it was described as the "divide between the sciences and literary humanities". This was always a concept that I struggled to understand, as I always saw art and science converge in my academic and personal life.  Geometry and Art (http://www.graphicine.com/the-geometry-of-an-art-wenzel-jamnitzer/) For instance, one of my favorite subjects in high school was geometry. I was fascinated by how art can be created with a few simple shapes, and at the same time, amazed by how precise this art can be through gaining a mathematical understanding. On the other hand, in AP Studio Art class, I saw the convergence of art and technology, as we were required to use some form of camera to first capture the reference for our paintings....