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This week, I finally had the opportunity to visit the Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site. I would recommend everyone to go check it out, since it's just in Boelter Hall at UCLA, and it's the birth place of one of the most important inventions to our modern world today. Leonard Kleinrock was a PhD student from MIT who served as a Computer Science professor at UCLA. Over his life, he published more than 250 papers and wrote 6 books on topics such as packet switching networks, packet radio networks, local area networks, broadband networks, nomadic computing, peer-to-peer networks, and intelligent software agents. His theory of packet networks, the technology that laid the foundation for the Internet, influences us to this day. On top of the art behind the beauty of the mechanisms that made the Internet possible, the Internet also gave new meanings to art in general. For instance, through the Internet, people are able to share their artwork to a larger audience than e...

As this past week's lecture topic, Space + Art, had indeed spark my interest, I decided to visited the Meteorite Gallery as well. First off, I'd like to say that it's the most convenient event I've been to so far, as it is just on UCLA campus, so I would encourage all of my classmates to go and check it out! It's almost zero effort, and super fascinating. Thermal metamorphism, the heating process on asteroids, moons, and planets, is an example of how nature creates art by itself, even without the help of man-made technology. As shown in the picture, various textures and shapes are created from this process, making each piece unique and interesting. Other processes also form differentiated meteorites, such as when iron meteorites form from chondritic materials by melting then separation of a metal melt. The resulting meteorite looks like a crystal, with various shades of gray spots. Each one that was displayed in the gallery was of different sizes, colors, and ...

This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to The Broad, a contemporary art museum in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. The experience was amazing, as there were various types of art forms that demonstrate the topics that we've learned in this class. For example, one piece of art was actually the blueprint of an architecture, but was painted over to create abstract art. The mathematically accurate architectural drawing contrasted with the free-spirited paint strokes that characterize abstract art creates a fascinating piece together. The very foundation of architecture is based upon not only principles of geometry and math, but artistic value as well. Cairo by Mehretu Furthermore, The Broad itself is a work of architecture, as the building is asymmetric but displays fascinating textures and geometric shapes. Picture of The Broad found on Google Another art piece I saw was also an illustration of math and geometry in art. This piece utilizes two vibrant colors with bla...

The Power of Ten is a perfect example of how space can be seen as a form of art, as it truly fascinating that our universe is so vast. The dimensions are meaningless without a comparison, because the numbers are too big for human comprehension. Because of how mysterious and boundless space is, it has become a point of interest for both scientists and artists alike. Our universe in proportions In Professor Vesna's lecture this week, she mentioned novels about space such as Beyond the Planet Earth. A more well-known example today is The Martian, which is a novel that was adapted into film in 2015. Both the novel and the movie were huge hits, and reflect people's curiosity in the limitless posibilities that space offers. There are more huge hits, like the movie Interstellar, which explores the idea of other planets as possible habitats for humans in the future. This idea is something that current scientists work on as well, as they continue to look for different life forms an...