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Week 9: Science + Art      Science and art are usually not compared to one another but through the creative aspect of art, it influences to a scientific breakthrough. Scientists develop hypothesis on certain research topics they wish to find answers to. Albert Einstein even stated how science and art "tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and from" as well as emphasizing how the "greatest scientists are always artists."        There has been research about life in other places besides Earth throughout the past decades. Scientists expanded their research by sendings animals out into space like Laika, a Moscow street dog. Soviet rocket scientists wanted to send animals into space to have a better knowledge as to how it would affect humans in terms of launch and other aspects related to space travel. Laika was sent with other stray dogs on November 1957. Laika had the necessities to survive but the issue came due to the satellite. The cabin started to overheat cau

 Week 8: Nanotech + Art      The use of nanotechnology has had an impact on the medical field which is a connection we had previously made on the medicine and art fields. In the Part 4 Lecture, Dr. Gimzewski introduce the development of nanodrugs and its reaction to the human body. He stated that the first nanodrug sanctioned was Abraxane which targeted breast cancer. Nanomedicine is able to target small cells to target those damaging the tissues without harming any of the healthy cells. Nanomedicine is an interesting development because it is also used for imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics.        Dr. Gimzewski furthered his lecture by presenting quantum dots. Quantum dots are nanoparticles that can be injected in cells to label specific biomolecules. Quatue dots are also able to detect cancer in earlier stages because it is able to target smaller cells. On the other hand, MRIs are able to detect the tumors once it has spread. This shows how quantum dots can help humans however,

 Week 7: Neuroscience and Art     We have explored different areas in which art is performed but we have recently focused on the human body such as neuroscience. In Professor Vesna's Lecture 3, we are informed on the impact that drugs have to one's brain which results in a change in perception as well as to their creativity. Psychedelic drugs are able to alter one's perception and cognitive processes like their emotions.       Dr Timothy Leary was a psychologist and writer who advocated fo psychedelic drugs as he used LSD. Through his use of LSD, he gained his philosophy of finding one's true self  through the use of psychedelic drugs carefully and responsibly. His saying was "turn on, tune in, drop out" which is to connect with your internal feelings and thoughts and reflecting those feelings with the world around you. This correlated to the idea of consciousness as one is able to associate themselves with the around by internalizing with themselves first.   

 Week 6: BioTech + Art      Joe Davis is an important person towards the field of BioTech and Art as he emphasizes how science should gain its value to people as it is all around us. He incorporates art in an artistic form through his work with genes and bacteria. Professor Vesna discussed the Audio Microscope which was one of Davis's inventions that allowed us to listen to living cells. This shows his creativity as an artists because his form of art is different than most artists as he is inspired by the connections of science, technology, and art.  A small introduction of who Joe Davis is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkZt00Qics     Biotechnology is still a controversial topic as Professor Vesna stated because it invasive to living organisms and it can impose a threat to its environment.  However, it does help society have a conversation about the connections between these living and non-living organisms. Just like technology is advancing, the creativity within people will ex

 Week 4: Medicine + Technology + Art      This week lecture has been one of the most surprising to me  because I would have never though about making the connection between medicine and art. Medicine only made me think about science and math but after the previous lectures about the connection of math and science to art it made me see where this connection could be made. In Professor's Vesna's lecture, it made me think of the show Grey's Anatomy. The entertainment field is a form of art but according to Ellen Pompeo there was not much hope for a medical serious on TV as they released the first season; now this show has been airing for 18 seasons.  Grey's Anatomy captured the COVID-19 pandemic in its 17th season, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiNIFDZb6BI&t=2s     It has never occurred to me to think of X-rays and MRI's as a form of art because I only associated it to medicine. However, according to Casini's article, it allowed me to see how MRI's are ab

     This week I attended Patricia Cadavid's presentation on the work that she does as an immigrant, artist, and researcher. I gravitated towards her presentation because as I was raised by immigrant parents, I would notice their perspective differed from the way I lived. Hence, through Cadavid's perspective, she was able to express the effects of colonialism through her artwork.     Her work is focused on the ancestral past of the Andes of South America through a "decolonial perspective." Two of the pieces she presented were the Khipu and the Yupana Balzarotti. Through the two pieces, she was able to restore the memories and the works of the Incas and  previous Andean societies that were present in South America.   A Khipu that the Incas and Andean societies used, https://ancientamerindia.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/khipus-the-central-andes-writing-system/     The Khipu was an important tool to the Incas and  Andean societies in South America as it was a transmission de