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Did you know mushrooms are a fungi within a kingdom of their own, but are more closely related animals and humans than plants?  On the 21st of April I attended my first event where we talked about MycoMythologies with a storytelling circle, lecture, presentation and guided sound walk. Specifically in this event we were focused on the topic of mushrooms and how in our world they are so much more than just a vegetable to put on toast. The event kicked of with people explaining their own individual experiences with mushrooms. Guess speaker Sasa Spacal explained when she was little and growing up in Slovenia she and her family used to always go to a local park where in the Autumn their used to thousands of leaves covering the ground. As they were their one day they found a massive circle of mushrooms so big they were only able to pick 1/4 of them. For them this was gold - so they returned the next day hoping to collect more however they had all g...

We live in a world where technology has a substantial significance on our medical industry and for the better is helping to save lives everyday. Content in unit 4's readings and lectures have helped me to gain a further understanding of how the medical industry is so positively impacted due to the art and technology behind it.  Modern Medical Industry In this weeks lecture we learn about anatomy and dissection and how these are the core intersection of science and art. Dating right back to the first half of the third century B.C. was where  two Greeks became the first to perform dissection on human cadavers. However it was only in the renaissance where art and science really began to take on this concept and detailed anatomical drawings began to arise. Looking back on the detail in these drawings is truly incredible they were able to use the limited information they had to draw conclusions about the human body - which improved medical in...

 A common trend within the past weeks has been the combination of 'art' with other processes and finding the similarities that help these work together. In week 3's lecture, the focus has been around the fine implications of art on robots and learning about the history to help us understand where we are in society today.  Robots are complicated structures that carry out a complex series of actions automatically. Because robots are related to process of industrialisation and manufacturing this uses computation from basic math and art skills to produce the creative robot structure.  Industrialisation of Robots In lecture 3, Professor Vesna gave insight to the history of industrialisation and mechanism explaining how it started. We learned Henry Ford was one of the first to create an assembly line for the production of automobile. This also lead on to show one of the big steps was press printing which was able to print 90 more pages a day due to an advanc...

Since I was young I used to only see math and art as being two very different area's of study that didn't cross over at all. In primary school in New Zealand 'Art' had the stereotype of being 'easy' and 'fun' completing activities like, painting, drawing and creating sculptures with clay. Grading was subjective and the more creative and 'out of the box' your work, often the better you did. Whereas, math was more challenging and accurate and we were often tested on our ability with either a correct or wrong answer. However, I have found after spending more time studying these two areas in more depth there are characteristics that cross over and have found to be much more similar than one would expect.  Math and art in the brain Mathematics has an influence on many areas of study but specifically art with skills like analysis of symmetry and having an eye for linear. This dates back centuries to 1490 where Leonardo da Vinci demonstrated the concept...

'Art' and 'science' have been seen as two terms often separated with ideas that fall categorically. However, I believe the idea's behind 'art' and 'science' extend much further than a paint brush and easel or a scientist with test tubes in a lab. They are umbrella terms that cover massive idea's in our world.  Victoria Vesna's  (Vesna) paper  “Toward a Third Culture,”  introduces the idea of a third culture that encourages the idea of collaboration in the fields of science and art. I am on board with the idea's expressed by Vesna and see how 'Art' and 'Science' don't need to be separate  but a bridge should connect these previously seen separated ideas.  C. P. Snow introduces the idea that 'art' and 'science' began to be separated in  school curricula  which supports the idea of what university are incorporating now.  Being a freshman at UCLA under a pre psychology degree this covers fields in both scie...