Week 5: Midterm Project

Week 3: Robots + Art

Original printing press design. In response to this week’s material, I focused primarily on the ideas presented in lecture regarding the evolution of technology beginning with the industrial revolution all the way up to the present popularity of robots. In Lecture Part 1, Professor talked about how the invention of the printing press is what sparked the exchange of knowledge around the world, which was vital in the development of some of recent history’s most brilliant minds. However, I feel that during the development of technology since this time period, we have turned this method that once helped to spread knowledge and ideas into a mechanism that doesn’t make us think at all. I think this was the biggest juxtaposition that I noticed while reading the material this week, especially in the piece written by Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin Futuristic robot model. ...

Week 4: Medtech + Art

I am particularly interested by the rapid evolution of technology in the medical field because of how much technology influences every aspect of our lives – but this week I enjoyed learning about where the field of medicine originated. I found that reading the Hippocratic Oath was interesting because of how it has changed over the years. In the original oath, its contents were generally based off of respecting the body, the patient, and the art form that is medicine – encouraging those who have this knowledge to share it with others. It is interesting how the field of medicine has changed since then, in that it is seen as separate from art, and the knowledge of medicine has been restricted to those who are intelligent enough to survive medical school as well as have the monetary stability to afford it. To me, this modern view of medicine does not seem to coincide with the original standards it was founded on as seen in The Hippocratic Oath. ...

Week 8: Nanotech + Art

Lotus flower. I came into this week having little to no knowledge about nanotechnology, and while I still found myself getting a little lost during the lecture videos, I feel like I learned important information about a topic that is extremely relevant in the scientific world today. In the lecture video part 3, one topic that really caught my attention was when Professor Gimzewski introduced the compound called titanium dioxide. This nanoparticle has self-cleaning properties that are also found in the Asian Lotus plant. When looking at the lotus plant with a reflection electron microscope, you can see that the leaves are not smooth, but instead have small waxy bumps. This design has been adopted in the nanotechnology field to create surfaces that are water resistant and self-cleaning. I think this technology can and will be extremely useful in several instances in our society. Being able to manufacture materials th...

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