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BioTech + Art I believe that human creativity is one of the most beautiful things in world. Without it, we wouldn't have a lot of the things we obtain today that make our lives easier. However, as we all know, nothing i perfect and every good thing does have its bad side. Human creativity can sometimes be our worst enemy. Why ? Because when creating things, we often don't take into account that what we produce can negatively affect our well being. We fail to be careful enough to minimize the chances of creating and distributing things that can harm us and therefore, human creativity should be limited when it affects a large amount of a population. In this week’s lesson, we discussed the mixture of the biotechnology and art worlds. Specifically, we went over the topic about GMOs also known as genetically modified organisms. I found this topic to be quite interesting because it is a prime example of human creativity that is both beneficial and non-beneficial. GMOs are e...
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NEUROSCIENCE + ART The relationship between neuroscience and art is quite intriguing. They go hand in hand. I believe that without neuroscience, or more specifically the brain, would be no art. There would be no creativity. In this week’s lesson we brought light to the significant role in which neuroscience plays in relation to art. In my opinion the most interesting section of this week’s lesson was the effects of certains drugs on the brain and the way in which they create art. The term that is now being used to describe the meshing of neuroscience and art is “neuroaesthetics”. As obvious as it is, we all know that art creation and perception comes from the brain and certain things can trigger that such as drugs. I found that Professor Vesna’s talk about different the drugs including, LSD & cocaine, and their effects in lecture was very interesting because it is fascinating how these drugs can make us create art out of our everyday surroundings. For example, the effect...
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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...
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