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Event 3

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Hox Zodiac The Hox genes are the genetic material that is shared across all animals.   Essentially all members of the animal kingdom start off the same but when going through the stage of cellular development as embryos we start to look different.   To display how there is a clear link between all creatures the artist, our professor, used the Chinese zodiac’s animal avatars’ embryonic state to display the physical similarities before there are stark differences.   When seeing how all the animal look almost identical and understanding how we, as humans, have the same cellular make up; I couldn’t help but to feel more of the interconnectedness between the animal kingdom and I.   The artwork brought evolutionary differences to the forefront and I could not help but to wonder where the planet would be if natural selection favored other species. This theme explored the similarities and differences through amazing 2 story tall paintings on silk and graphs that
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Space and Art

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One of my earliest memories of the bridge between space and was the constellations.   I was fascinated with the story of Orion, his belt, and how the goddess Artemis placed him among the heavens as greek mythology was a childhood interest of mine.    A number of the constellations had religious reverence (Mullen, 2011).   Even in Christianity, there was a link between the space and the divine and the book Paradiso (part of the Divine Comedy by Dante) uses celestial spheres to outline the path a soul takes when ascending to God (Alighieri, 1952). I’ve come to learn that farmers were some of the first people to appreciate constellations as they used them to tell the time of year in areas that did not have much of a differentiation between seasonal weather, which can effect agriculture (Dolan, 2018).   But I have a vivid memory of my second grade teacher explaining how the Big Dipper was used for navigation and its link to black history (Gooley, 2018).   Sla
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Event 2

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I attended the Cotsen Institute of Archeology at the Hammer Museum.   In all honesty, expected to be bored when I walked in but I was drawn to the digital lab.   I met the lab assistant Michelle Vo as she showed me some the VR exhibit.   The goggles I wore allowed me to explore ancient Egypt before Michelle showed me VR world she created for the UCLA Library.   We began to talk about the possibilities of VR tours for UCLA and what it can mean for the activist history the campus has.   She recommended that I take the VR class through DesMA this summer when she found out that I was interested in the department.   Michelle also showed me the AR program she uses to allow for people to see how ancient masks look on them.   The AR program is apparently user friendly and she recommended for first time users, as it did not require any coding experience.   I was able to her website and I am hoping to connect with her to flesh out some ideas about possible creating more VR exh
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Midterm

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Dr. Doodles

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I can remember when I first started drawing I was obsessed with precision and making thing proportional when sketching a person.   I no long wanted to draw eyes too far up on the head like I did when I was a kid.   In my early 20s I discovered a book called “ Artistic Anatomy ” by Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer (originally published in 1889) hoping to study it to become better at sketching the human form.   The book went into the particulars of the human body and it followed the same practices that da Vinci did when he merged artistic and scientific observation (Irving).   The artistic eye was used to further medical research as it did required great attention to detail.   Body Code is a collection of biomedical animation displayed in galleries to gain public interest in scientific knowledge.   The detail of the cellular phenomenon can be quite a vision when magnified from its molecular scale. In recent times, we have separated medical science from
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