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Event 3 This week, I had the pleasure of finally attending UCSB‘s free admission art museum for the first time. These last couple of weeks, they featured art pieces pertaining to the idea of science and art which I thought was perfect for this class. I was able to look over different pieces created by past and present students that are involved in the Media, Arts and Technology department here on campus ! The first piece of art that caught my attention was some sort of drawing of a frog-like creature. It instantly reminded me of the previous robot I saw at my last event ! When you stand in front of it, it is able to detect your presence based on its built in camera, and as soon as it knows you are there, it begins to read you a poem. This ties in, once again, with the robotics + art lecture from a couple of weeks because this piece of art is in some way like a robot. It has human-like abilities but only because of the machinery installed within it. In another room, I c

SPACE + ART At this point, it is very clear that science and art in fact do mend and each of them helps with the other. I knew that this week’s lesson of “ Space + Art” would make a lot of sense. As Professor Vesna says, space and art really do involve a lot of what we learned in this class, such as robotics, nanotech, math, and many more subjects ! I truly enjoyed the small segment on the powers of 10 and sagan’s blue dot. Both of these videos are a reminder to me that space, itself, is a reminder of how small we are individually compared to the universe. Going from having the ability to see multiple galaxies at once that look like dust to seeing teeny tiny electrons is quite fascinating but also scary to think about ! This week’s lesson also included the talk of robotics. Early in the year, we discussed this and it has come back for the talk of space. Robotics + Space exists because that is our way to explore space. Without the creation of robotic machinery, we wouldn&