Mathematics + Robotics + Art

    In this week’s lecture, we learned about Math, Robotics, and Art.  As an art major I always thought that technology was helpful to art but art was not helpful for technology. After reading and listening to the lectures I believe that they go hand in hand; they need each other to excel.

    In the Mathematical lecture, I learned that math was very helpful in art by making it more realistic when using perspective. This then reminded me of the Gothic Architectural class I took; Robert Bork wrote about how geometry was used and seen in everyday things and people. The use of geometry was helpful in making the large Gothic buildings with very elaborate designs. Bork also talked about Villard de Honnecourt, an artist who claimed to use three point perspective in his sketches during the thirteenth century. His book of sketches is seen as a development between math and the arts to surpass the two dimensional way of thinking at the time.

    In the robotics lecture, I learned that technology and art need each other and coexist together such as in computers, phones, kitchen appliances and so on. Art inspires technology and technology inspires art, a good example from lecture was the robot that was seen first in a theater play and that led the sciences to create robots. This then made me think of how I use technology and art in my everyday life; music. Music is a great combination of the two because you need the mechanical structure to make the sound waves that then creates music.

    The creation of television is an outstanding example of math/robotics and art coexisting and working together as one. It takes technology and science to create the structure that then displays the arts on it.

After looking at the two lectures, I did a little research and fond this artist named Fernando Orella, who makes robots that make art. Essentially art that can make art and I thought to myself, "who is the artist? The robot or the human that made the robot?". This was very interesting because he also talked about how these robots were given anthropomorphic traits to them. This then brought me back to technology and  the humanities coexisting together.

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2) Bork, Robert Odell. The geometry of creation: architectural drawing and the dynamics of gothic design. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Print.

3) Vesna, Victoria. "Robotics pt2." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Apr. 2012. Web. 6 July 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAZ8bo9T_Pk>.

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7) "Fernando Orellana - Robot Art." YouTube. YouTube, 26 Nov. 2008. Web. 6 July 2014. <http://youtu.be/nuvW8cxAHNI>.