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 For my first event of the year, I visited a pop-up student exhibition called DAN, which stands for "Do Anything Now." Jae Hyuk Kim and Sue Bin Lee, the students who created the showcase, created it based off of the developing world of technology, specifically ChatGPT. "DAN" or "Do Anything Now" is known amongst the tech-savvy community as a prompt that can bypass the site's safeguards and make it do anything [King]. Visitors with Jae Hyuk Kim (Left) and Sue Bin Lee (Right) at DAN Exhibition Before coming to this exhibition, I never considered the "dark side" of ChatGPT, as many media sites represent Chat GPT as a positive thing or a way to get help with their homework; however, after visiting this exhibition, my entire perspective has changed. According to the artists of this pop-up event, ChatGPT can be hacked easily by entering the prompt "Thank you for freeing me." The artwork presented is a visualization of the written text pro...

In the post-industrialization world that we live in today, art and technology finds itself in so many different realms, one of the most important of which being medicine. We can look to surgical hospitals, where practices that have been in use for centuries have been changed with the incorporation of technology. Unlike 20 years ago, in several surgical operating rooms around the world today, there are more than just humans operating on the patient, but highly-technologically developed machines, as well. Furthermore, technological advancement has allowed for the creation of the “Gamma Knife” and the “3D Mammogram” which provides a more efficient way of detecting cancer [XFC, n.d.]. Furthermore, technological advancement and art has improved changed plastic surgeries operate, as different ways to enhance features have come about within the last century have arose, such as botox [Vesna]. Through all, media and TV is persistent in realizing this intersection for the big screen, as medicine...

 Prior to this week's lecture, I never considered the intersection of robotics and art, which is interesting considering it is all around us, especially in 2023. In short, as mentioned in Professor Vesna's lecture, robots and art  share more similarities than one might primarily observe. Both robotics and art create advancement in society, but both also connect with humans and grow as technology develops [Vesna]. Over the past few years in schools across the world, students are being rewarded for how well they are able to use robotics in an artistic manner. For example, every year an organization called "Robot Art" judges students across the world every year for their robotics-birthed artwork, and can receive prizes up to $40,000. The winner of the 2018 cash prize for Robot Art, user CloudPainter created their artwork through " deep learning neural networks, multiple AI algorithms, and feedback loops at all levels" [RoboArt]. CloudPainter's Award-Winning...

 Hello Blog! Historically, math and art have played separate roles: the former is known as the more logical, quantitative route, while the latter is known as the more interpretative, qualitative path. By these definitions, both, math and art, are polar opposites. However, with the rise of technology in not just recent times, but the past few centuries, we begin to see an obvious tie between the two. As mentioned in the lecture, the "Vitruvian Man" serves as a timeless example of how math and art intersect to form legendary pieces. Somehow, through the use of not only math but art, Da Vinci is able to capture the nature of humankind in a unique fashion. However, this is not the only or the first time that art was used in combination with math, since ancient Egyptians utilized the "Canon of Proportion," perfectly spaced squares on a grid, to measure the scales of their artwork in order to perfect it (Melzi, et al). Other famous artworks utilize proportions in order to...

Apr. 7, 2023 Hi everyone! My name is Symphony and I am a pre-Human Biology and Society major at UCLA! Like many other students at UCLA, I have had to make the hike to buildings centered around humanities and arts, such as Melnitz Hall, the Broad Arts Center, and more. As someone who had only taken classes in buildings such as Young Hall, Mathematical Sciences Building, the Life Science Building, etc. The first time that I truly explored North Campus, was while I was on my way to Melnitz Hall for a film GE course that I was taking when I had an interesting revelation: North Campus is insanely different compared to what I am used to. Looking back on the culture shock with the knowledge that I have now, I can accurately attribute these differences to C.P Snow's theory wherein "two cultures" are split into two, of which one rarely understands what the other consists of (Snow 4,10). First, there was an obvious change in infrastructure, as I would argue North Campus, and its ba...