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Khipu    I had the privilege to attend the zoom event by Patricia Cadavid which involved many topics such as Math, Science, Technology, Art, and Culture.      Patricia Cadavid is an artist and researcher who was born in Columbia. She looks at the relationships and the effects of coloniality within new media from the migratory and decolonial and anti-colonial perspectives.       She first began to show the concept and model of the Khipu. The Khipu is a knotted string device done by the Incas that records and keeps anything relating to accounting or calculating mathematics. In relation to class, this brings in ideas of math + art such as in week 2 and how mathematics can be used but in a more artistic way rather than seeing numbers and symbols.  "Rolled up Khipus is study by the khipu data base project - Havard University, stored at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin" Electronic Khipu      Patricia then mentioned her own make...

 Personal Experience with Medical technologies: In my lifetime, I have, fortunately, never broken a bone nor have gone to the hospital for any extreme/severe issue. There was one time I did pull a muscle from playing soccer on my right thigh. Because of the injury, I had to take an MRI to see exactly what occured. Professor Vesna, in lecture 2, brings up the topic of MRI and how It took over 5 hours to receive the first ever full MRI image. In my case, the image was done in less than 20 minutes. This truly brings in perspective how much our technology has advanced within the medical field and to think technology was once not even considered a factor into being a true doctor.  On the topic of MRI, in  Silvia  Casini's text, I also found that it influence my understanding of MRI in the artistic way as she brings up interesting topics on how MRI look in the same way that a portain does and how MRI is acoustic more than visual.  Quinn, Siobhan. Torn Quadricep - ...

       In this week's topics, Robotics and Art was a topic that struck my interest as it may seem they both play as almost two completely different topics but in reality, together create unimaginable creativity.            Walter Benjamin brought up the concept of "mechanical reproduction of art" when he stated, "The situations into which the product of mechanical reproduction can be brought may not touch the actual work of art, vet the quality of its presence is always depreciated.". This was striking and unfortunately seen in our world, where work from mechanical systems sometimes never encounter the work of art and will only be forgetting and unappreciated through time. An example of this could be powerful cameras to capture natures's beauty or cameras to film movies or tv shows. Specfically like this photo captured by Apollo 8 Lunar Module Pilot Bill Anders on 1968 and this scene in the movie film "Contact" where it shows ...

One idea the professor mentioned in this week's lecture was that someone in my education path failed me and convinced me "I'm not creative because I can't draw...". Although this sentence is rather simple, it truly expands the idea that I, a more science/math person, am not creative because I simply cannot do what is first thought of as art but, in fact, there is much more to art than just drawing. This is when I realized that my interest and field involve both mathematics and art in unison.   In the lecture portion on "Fibonacci, Fractals, and Financial Markets", I gained and learned insight into how mathematics has influenced art and science. Specifically, the Fibonacci series is interesting to work with because it is seen within nature which truly brings about the two concepts together.  “7 Beautiful Examples Of The Fibonacci Sequence In Nature.” Odysseyonline , https://www.theodysseyonline.com/7-beautiful-examples-fibonacci-sequence-nature. Acces...