week 4

Unlike all the other subjects we have covered, when I saw that we were covering medicine and art, I understood the artwork within it immediately. The body is the most complex and amazing piece of art in the world. The intricate connections and symmetry of the human body is simply awe inspiring. Two ears, two eyes, two arms, two legs, everything just makes sense in the anatomy of the body. With technological advances we have made, we are now able to see and experience the human body fully and the art that it is. In the Cassini article on the MRI, he states, "Through MRI’s sound, subjects become aware of the wholeness of their bodies, as sound assails the still body being scanned and provokes acute sensations in every organ". The wholeness of the human body is an intricate work of art. Even the best architect would struggle making the human body with all of its organs and systems functioning together in unison.

The organization of all the systems in the human body and the processes of these systems is incredible and above is an image that only begins to show the first layer of it all. Professor Vesna mentioned a body exhibit in lecture 1 for this unit. I actually attended a body exhibit in high school called "Bodies Revealed". I can say that this was 100 percent the most interesting experience of my life. Looking at real bodies and all the layers within them made me really start to think and this is how I began to see the human body as art. 

The human body can also lead to art. Professor mentioned that when human body dissections became popular, artists attended many viewing in order to accurately depict the human body. They were then able to draw for the rest of the community the images they saw. They used the knowledge to draw the anatomical images of the human body and create images of the raw human body accurately.

References:

http://www.bodiesrevealed.com/about-the-exhibition.html

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts by Silvia Cassini

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2008/deconstruction-mri

Professor Vesna Lecture 1

image 1:
http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Science-Stories/Our-Senses/Sci-Media/Images/The-body-s-systems
image 2: 
http://www.putnam.org/Exhibit-Halls/Changing-Exhibits/Bodies-Revealed
image 3:
http://www.cliftoncollegeuk.com/collegenews/1333/

week 3

When I saw the topic for discussion this week, I thought, “What could robotics have to do with art? Are robots art? I guess. But what do they mean?” As I watched the lectures, I began to understand the idea of robotics and science connecting to art. 

One point that I pondered about throughout lecture and as I researched was the fact that robotics are often used in the mass production of art in the modern world. Picture any image you have seen at Urban Outfitters, Ikea, Kitson- they are all mass produced images on canvas. How are they made? They are made through technology and robotics in factories and sold to us as art.  

This image was a mass produced item from Ikea, made with robotics on a factory line. This is a very clear connection of robotics and science leading to art.

Recently, there was a viral video in which a robot creates a work of art through moving objects and creating images. The video below is this work of art.

Robots themselves are even depicted in movies as very artistic pieces sometimes. They appear very elegant and complex. In the movie "I Robot", for example, the robots are so sleek they appear as true pieces of art. Therefore, not only are they creating art, but they are art. 

Citations:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/decoration/10788/

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/category.jsp?id=A_FURN_WALL

http://singularityhub.com/2013/10/01/robotics-and-art-combine-in-latest-viral-video-box/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/smart-sleek-home-robot-vacuum-203000184.html

IMAGES:

http://www.jama.org/media_photos_us.html

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30209381/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://unrealitymag.bcmediagroup

week 2

When I first read the topic for Unit 2, It was hard to imagine how math has played into and contributed to the development of art. However, once I watched lectures, it was very clear that mathematics play a large part in the arts. As much as math plays a part in arts, art plays a part in math. If you want to create any sort of shape in art, you usually have to use some math to create order within your image. In the image below, it is a simple mathematical procedure which is creating art. Brahmagupta contributed into the development of the concept of 0. The concept of 0 is large in graphs and graphs can often be the start of artistic imagery. 

This is another image which was created through graphing.

Perspective, including linear perspective, vertex, and vanishing point derived from mathematics and the concept of three dimensional and two dimensional planes. This is a concept which although used in mathematics, has played a large role in art. Using lines and calculations, one can create an accurate perspective when making a picture.

This is an example of perspective in art. 

Image 1:http://www.mkbergman.com/409/a-simple-theory-of-everything/

Image 2: http://quester-shadow.deviantart.com/art/Graph-Art-007-69301052

Image 3:http://piaart.wordpress.com/two-point-perspective/