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Extra Credit Event 2: The event I attended was a symposium presented by Linda Weintraub. In this symposium others artist were brought in and they were able  to discuss their art. One of the artist was gebhard who talked about the parallel image eco-materialism. I admit that the thing that  caught my attention very fast were the “praying robots” In brief, the praying robots is pretty much a satire of humanity rely on technology to fulfill our social problems. The person solicates a prayer and then the robot is able to read the   mind of the person and begin to do the prayer. This definitely connects to my final paper because  I want to use technology, specially robots and researchh how they can help the human race deal with problems, mentallly and physically. 

Extra Credit Event 1: At first when I attended this event I was somewhat with a disinterested. However, after the first speaker of disembodied art I was soon sucked into the event. Especially when the speaker spoke about how he himself feels disembodied . Not knowing where he is located. He then goes ahead and talks about cultural condition and not conveying emotion. This specific point reminded me of my field work in Mexico. During my field work I was to show no emotion to the stories I was being told by the community because my emotions would get in the way of my work. One of the work of art that was shown  was of picasso, specially the one that showed a mother losing her child. Here the artist distorts the image in order to show sorrows. This picture in particular make me think that for my final essay I want to talk about how people  deal with unfortunate events and how they overcome certain events in their lives. Perhaps go back to robotics and art, and research if their ha

Week 8: Nanotechnology +Art To be honest I found this week’s lecture very hard to follow. I believe that this is because I have been used to stuff that are non-related to science. Such as learning about different cultures, and readings books.  To begin, Nanotechnology is a branch of technology that deals with dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers especially the manipulation of individuals atoms and molecules( www.nanotech.org ). While watching the Ted Talk about “DNA Folding, in detail” I learned that DNA can be manipulated into any shape. I was shocked by this because I did not expect that DNA can be shaped into a “happy  face”. In the past I have learned that DNA can be altered or mutated. However, I never imagined that it can be folded into an everyday shape.  It took me some time to see how DNA can be seen as Art. However, after thinking about it in more depth I realize that because DNA can be folded. It can become an Origami This topic r

Event 3: Leonardo Art Scicne Evening Rendezvous (Laser) David Artel + Symrin Chawla When I attended this event I was somewhat surprise by the amount of young individuals that attended the event. I was shocked because the last event I attended, most of the individuals were of an older age. The topic that caught my attention was "Art Installation" one of the speakers purpose was how can the ceiling change in shape, how buildings can be brought to life. This is  very interesting because in Anthropology we study how materials can  tell us the life if humans in the past. We somewhat bring the past to life with the study and reassembly of pottery, mines, buildings and sites. The speaker stated that she uses sensory technology in order to sense the eye son individuals. Like the speaker anthropologists use technology. However, we use it to reconstruct the faces and bodies of the bones that we find. Overall I had a very good experience in at this event. It made think that for my fi