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DESMA9 Study Guide 6/4/2017              Start compling the blog + summary write up 6/5/2017              research and write introduction + background/ list references of topic 6/6/2017              research and write current state of technology and future 6/7/2017              first draft + study for quiz 6/8/2017              review with TA 6/9/2017              final Quiz 6/10/2017            final draft 6/11/2017            final draft + proof read

Week 8 : NanoTech + Art What is nanotechnology? The word nano is Greek for “dwarf” and it is one billionth of a meter. The concept of nanotechnology is first introduced in “There is Plenty of Room at the bottom” by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in 1959. However, it is until 1981 when the scanning tunneling microscope is invented for people to be able to analyze the atomic level and marked the paradigm shift. As Professor Victoria Vesna explained, "This new science is about a shift in our perception of reality from a purely visual culture to one based on sensing and connectivity”, the scanning tunneling microscope utilizes the sensation of atoms and then creates a visual image of the surface. Video: Nanotechnology for targeted cancer therapy With the benefit of this emerging technology, many new products such as water and dust resistant coatings on commercial products are introduced on the market. Some people are afraid that the new technolog

On April 11, 2017, I have a chance to attend graduate student, Youjin Cheng’s solo show called Dead Wood at UCLA Broad Art Center. The purpose of the show is to offer sympathy to robots as the same as humans and animals because the hitchhiking robot who has successfully traveled around Canada, Germany and Netherlands was destroyed in the United States. Youjin Cheng questions why people would destroy a robot. Do people feel threatening from artificial intelligence and robots? Or Are they jealous of robots' abilities that ordinary people cannot perform? If robots have artificial intelligence, will they be able to feel pain in the future? Kinetic sculpture with moving robotic arms The first thing I saw in the show is the kinetic sculpture with moving robotic arms where the plastic prototype of human organs attached. This serves very well for tearing apart the robot would feel the same as tearing apart organs in human. Then, there is a joystick hanging in front of the screen to

Week 6 : Bio + Art Blue Delphiniums The first artist who created and exhibited Bio-art in the Museum in history is Edward Steichen who hybridizes beautiful delphiniums. He described his work as “The science of heredity when applied to plant breeding, which has as its ultimate purpose the aesthetic appeal of beauty, is a creative art”. Delphiniums were indeed beautiful and nobody questions the ethic of Bio-art at that moment. However, when Eduardo Kac presented genetically engineered green fluorescent rabbit, people began to question whether artists creating or manipulating living organisms for art works is ethical or not. Furthermore, Stelarc has undertaken a radical transformation of his body; the extra ear being constructed on his arm which is bizarre for many people. People do wish there should be limits to human creativity in the fear of bio-art turns into bio-hazard by bio-hackers and outlaws. However, with DYI biology, anyone can create their own bio lab in their garage o

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