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Medicine, technology, and art are all words that you hear often yet not much together. However, even though they aren’t used much together in a sentence, they are used together all of the time in real life applications. Medicine revolves around the new age of technology and the arts follow this trend.  New technology in the past decade has taken medicine advances to a whole new level: these include X-rays, surgery, prescriptions, etc. X-rays take “pictures” of your skeletal frame, exploiting any broken or fractured pieces. The picture illuminates on a screen a beautiful demonstration of the human body, something that artists have been displaying since forever ago.  https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.3921004.1560181815!%2Fimag Other medical advances that relate to art are in the field of plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has been around for thousands of years, but it is used a new way in the most recent decades. The human ...

  The movie titled Metropolis, by Fritz Lang, was a very interesting silent film. The city of Metropolis was divided into two distinct sections, one being the rich citizens on top and the hard working slaves below. The leader of the city’s son, Freder, caused quite the commotion to normal life after he fell in love with Maria (one of the below ground workers). Freder visited the factories beneath where he saw the devastating lifestyle that these people were living. He then witnessed an explosion that left many workers hurt and left to be carried out on stretchers, but he had thought it was an allusion. At the same time, a man named Rotwang made a robot that looked exactly like Maria so that he could control the workers that followed her below. He leads them to destroy the heart machine, causing the underground city to flood. The real Maria then breaks free from Rotwang and saves the children that were stuck in the flooding. Freder was left surprised after the robot of Maria was b...

  Robotics and Art is a very interesting topic that has a history ranging back hundreds of years. As we learn in Professor Vesna’s lecture, things like the printing press and other machines caused a revolution in informational technology as knowledge was more readily available. A few hundred years later the famous experimenter Faraday brought about important knowledge of electricity and magnetic fields, leading to widespread use of electric technology and motors. From then on different inventions arose, including the well known automobile. This machine was once regarded as more superior than sculptures in beauty by an Italian poet who wrote the Futurist Manifesto. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalmaglab.org%2Feducation%2Fmagnet-academy%2Fhistory-of-electricity-magnetism%2Fpioneers%2Fmichael-faraday&psig However, art and robotics have taken an interesting turn. Robots now do what humans have done in the past, even better. For example, there are pai...

     In this week's topic of math and art, we delve into the comparisons and the times in which both are demonstrated. Though each of us seem to believe we can only be good at one (Being a Biology major I relate to this theory), we are all born with the ability and characteristics to do either. According to R. Buckminster Fuller, however, we learn and start to specify towards one topic (math or art) through education and experiences. He calls this process degeniusing, and it is why many of us likely don’t contribute to both subjects.  R. Buckminster Fuller https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwnet%2Famericanmasters%2Ffiles%2F2001%2F12%2FBuckminsterFuller16x9.jpg      Art and math are very present in the world that we perceive. A brilliant example of this is demonstrated in the lecture by Professor Vesna: architecture. The combination of equations and delicate shapes have led to some of the greatest architecture pieces in his...

     According to both articles this week, along with videos and websites, we can see the devastating separation between scholars in the humanities and those in science fields. As a Biology major on campus, I see everything that there is to see involving the sciences. From lectures to homework, my life revolves around learning and studying science. However, I also delve into the arts and humanities when I can. I draw and paint often, as well as read many intellectual novels. This combination of the two polar opposites is very important. “Bridging and synthesizing many worlds while composing ‘something else’ becomes the art.”(Vesna 124) By bringing together the arts and sciences, Prof. Vesna claims that a new and true art will emerge. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.theconversation.com Although I have not yet taken any classes on campus, I am already experiencing the sharp divide between the two sides. I have taken two general education classes ...