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For my first event I attended an event hosted by artist Amy Myers on April 28. Her presentation looked at how she connects quantum mechanics to her art drawings. Myers' interesting in quantum mechanics came from her father who was a physicist and an aviator. Going into this presentation I had no idea what to expect or how to connect the topic of quantum mechanics to art, but as Amy Myers kept talking I was able to learn a lot.   This picture above is titled "Red Giant Between Sun and Earth" and took Amy Myers 10 months to complete. While talking about her art she said that her inspiration comes from reading books on quantum physics, where she can read of ideas and concepts to use as building blocks for ideas for her own artwork. These advanced books of science deal heavily with math in order to explain what phenomenon is happening at the molecular level. Myers' said that her main interest while drawing is complexity, as we can see in her art, they are all very complex...

  In a society like ours today, we are all very self conscious about the way we look due to the heavy presence of the perfect body through the media. The younger generations of our world are addicted to social media and are constantly looking at models with "perfect" bodies, which leads to younger people wanting to be more "perfect". The social media's "perfect" models have bodies that cannot be obtained just by working out or dieting but by also the medical technology that today's doctors are about to use to preform facial reconstruction surgeries. Growing up in a rather wealthy community, I saw many young adults in either high school or in the first few years of college go under facial reconstruction surgery. Many of these kids I know and even my cousin went under ultrasonic rhinoplasty, or simply a nose job. Medical technology has come so far from what it once was, that a nose surgery has become almost normal amongst today's youth. Medical t...

After watching this week's lectures I could only think about two movies, The Iron Giant (1999) and Modern Times (1936) as mentioned in lecture. These two movies are my personal favorite movies that have to deal with machinery and robotic art.  The Iron Giant is a family adventure movie that shows the connection between art and robotic by having the Iron Giant character have human expressions. The entire body of the Iron Giant resembles nothing of a human but as we follow more of this giant's adventure with his human kid best friend, Hogarth, we can see through the art work that even a machine can show empathy towards a human or even sorrow. As talked about in lecture, robotic art during the first World War was shifted from the dreams of what the future could be to war and how machines can represent violence as used in fascist art. This fear of war can be seen in The Iron Giant when the giant's destruction mode is activated and wants to destroy everything in its way. The art...

This week's topic focused on the hidden relationship between mathematics and art. I have taken a few art classes in my life and many math classes in my academic career, but I never realized that there was a connection between the two. At first glance of any type of artwork, you don't think about math but you either think how pretty the art piece is or question how the piece is even considered art.  A  main point in this week's lecture was the concept of the golden ratio. This concept of the golden ratio is, to me, the key relation between math and art. The golden ratio in simple terms is the ratio of a line segment but into two pieces of different lengths such that the ratio of the whole segment to that of the longer segment is equal to the ratio of the longer segment to the shorter segment. I know that sounds  like a lot but we see it everyday of our lives.  We can see it even on our own bodies, like our arms for example. Our bodies are perfect examples of the relat...

I am a third year Sociology major with hopes of having a minor in film and TV, and I am also on our school's baseball team. As a North campus student I have interacted with many free thinking people who are open to ideas and want to communicate with each other in order to accomplish their goals. I recently traveled down to South campus and had a stronger feeling of seriousness and individualism, which may be because of the stereotype of STEM majors being more hardworking than the North campus students. I believe that if North and South campus students can merge their equally hard working skills and move to more cooperative work ethics, we as a university can be more unified as one campus.  As I mentioned earlier I am a member of our baseball team, which takes up a large majority of my life outside of school. I consider baseball a natural science because hitting/ throwing a baseball requires timings and physical adjustments to scientifically allow me to hit the ball farther or thr...