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  For my first event I attended the second part of the Cosmological event series on zoom. I found this zoom event to be shockingly eye opening and nothing short of beautiful. I was able to go past my own understanding of Art and Space and in turn was opened to so many unique pieces and ideologies. If this meeting was recorded I definitely would recommend others to watch the video, the chronological order in which you watch this video does not matter, constant pieces were being shown and there was so much to learn from. This event had many similarities with many of the blogs from the past couple of weeks, a recurring intersection of art and technology.  Artist Makoto Azuma displays in his documentary Exobiotanica how life can come to be and what conditions can bring life to another planet. Using his experience as a florist and expertise in ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arrangement, he combines traditional Japanese art forms with modern technological outer space accents....

When checking in to see the topic of this week’s blog and before getting involved in any of the readings or lectures, I immediately found myself in disbelief. Being no stranger to hospitals and medical procedures, I struggled to find the ‘art’ or beauty in medicine/technology. Growing up with a chronic illness I’ve become well accustomed to MRIs, ctscans, under the knife procedures, and basic understanding of human anatomy. Having to look at organs always made me feel queasy but was important for the understanding of my health. MRIs always made me anxious as a child, having to sit completely still for 30 minutes and do nothing but listen to a buzzing noise. After completing this week's modules I now am able to understand the unique personal connection I have with art and medicine. I feel now almost lucky to have had the opportunity to be surrounded with the images,scans, and knowledge that is what I see now, as art. As Donald Ingber says “at scales from the molecular to the macrosc...

       Being that I am a geography major and second year transfer I have rarely spent time on the south side of campus. As a humanities major, all of my classes have been on the north side and funny enough, most of the geography courses are oddly in the same room. As touched upon earlier, UCLA is divided into two sections, the north side being humanities and the south being STEM. It is in this physical separation that I believe this two cultures ideology has been visualized and present in my immediate life. Source:   freepik      After completing this weeks readings, many of my own personal feelings about the divide in UCLA's campus and the general split of humanities and science has been cemented. As author Snow said " This polarization is sheer loss to us all. To us as people, and to our society. It is at the same time practical and intellectual and creative loss..." . After reading this quote I too have always felt the lack of interc...