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Medicine + Technology + Art Source: Maria Fabrizio for NPR Studying the lectures of medicine, technology and art this week reminds me of music being used as medicine in hospitals. We all know that listening to music can ease our emotional pain but music listening is also a noninvasive, cost effective and safe nursing intervention in hospitals. Not only the classical music but also music of modern artists such as Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys can also ease physical pain, according to the study of children and teenagers who had major surgery (NPR News). Music therapy is better than traditional painkillers because it is free from drug addiction and harmful side effects. In addition, older adult patients who listened to music in the preoperative holding area reported less anxiety, lower blood pressure and pulse rate than those who did not listen to music (Cunningham). Music can also help the patient who had suffered a Stroke to be able to speak using ‘Musical Speech Stimulatio...

Event 1 : Sarah Brady’s show, Material Reiteration, awakens matter, calling upon a new emergence of form outside the industrial complex and Anthropocene… This was my first art event that I have attended in UCLA and I was expecting to see some beautiful artistic paintings or melody, but I was totally wrong. The horrible noise from the speakers was annoying me since I entered the show. I found a pile of stones moving and a metallic sculpture. Kinetic Sculpture Then, I met with Sarah and figured out that the sound is produced by Supercollider, a computer-generated audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. The pile of moving stones is called kinetic sculpture underneath of which is an electric motor rotating and the 3D metallic sculpture is modeled using CNC machine. Metallic Sculpture Sound generated by Supercollider Finally, I realized that the theme of the show is realistic as it is revealing the industrialized environment. I can feel the working en...

Week 3: Robot + Art Today, robots are utilized in verity of areas such as mass assembly industries, medical surgery, space missions, and military. The most successful application of robots may be the Japanese automobile industry but the ability of robots in manufacturing is very limited to the factory needs. However, when the power of robots meets with the art of war, the full potential of a future robot is beyond our imagination. Leonardo Davinci's Robot Design Benjamin concluded in his paper as “War and war only can set a goal for mass movements on the largest scale while respecting the traditional property system…Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today's technical resources while maintaining the property system.” The idea of using robots in war is not new. It was 522 years ago, in 1495, Leonardo DaVinci designed a mechanical device that looks like an armored knight which is the first recorded humanoid robot in history. His robot was purely a mec...

Week 2 : Math + Art The fourth dimension began popular as early as around year 1900 not only among artists but also the scientists and mathematicians. One of the most interesting theories of fourth dimension is Minkowski space where the fourth dimension is clarified as time. This is the fundamental concept of modern computer graphic and animated films where 3D objects are moved over time using vector forms.  Another example of Mathematic influence in art and science can be seen in the novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Abbott. The author describes social classes using the geometry shapes such as points, lines, triangles, squares, polygons and circles and the different worlds using the mathematical dimensions. The fascinating topic for me in this week is origami presented by Robert Lang. The art of folding paper has helped the Livermore engineers to fold a 5-meters lens to send into the space, which is the great achievement accomplished by the combination of art an...

Week 1: Two Cultures If one judged me from what I am studying and the career I have chosen, I would be purely in the science culture defined by CP Snow. I am studying computer science and engineering at UCLA School of Engineering, and it is true that I have very little experience to art not because I hate artists but because of the workload of studying scientific theories which scientists have done with their life time in ten weeks of a quarter system. At UCLA campus, it is obvious to see the differences between the North and the South campuses as two cultures mentioned by CP Snow. For example, my engineering professor gives lecture wearing jeans and T-shirt while my business class professor comes to class everyday with formal suit and tie. However, if one looks further into the issue, there are several cultures depending on the majors such as business, art, science and engineering. As Sir Ken Robinson has mentioned in Changing Education Paradigms, schools have transformed ...