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Event 3 Fowler Museum For my third event, I attended the African Print: Taste, Globalization and Style exhibit at the Fowler Museum on campus at UCLA.  I really enjoyed this event because I was able to connect and see the art and technology coming together at the exhibit.  Normally I would not look at clothing as art or see how it can be related with technology but after taking this class I see that art is everywhere.  It is easy to see that African fashion really uses art and technology by looking at the fabric and its complex designs.  This made me think how much fashion has evolved over time with new designs becoming more complex which requires the use of technology.  Technology is also used for weaving the fabric.  My favorite part of the exhibit was seeing the bright and vibrant colors along with the unique designs.  I would recommend this event to my classmates because the connection between art and technology was prevalent.  I enjoyed this event the most as it w

DESMA BLOG – WEEK 9 Space + Art Space and art have always been closely tied together and this week’s discussions continued to support this concept.  Specifically, nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, and math are all connected to the study of space.  Human beings have been curious about space and what lies “out there” and beyond the earth for thousands of years.  In the early 1500s, Nicolaus Copernicus, an astronomer, used math to create his theory of the sun being in the center of the universe while the earth spun around the sun each day.  This was hugely important in the overall understanding of our heliocentric solar system.  Telescopes were invented in the 1700s.  In 1996, telescopes and nanotechnology played a key role in space exploration when molecules were detected and led to the discovery of buckyballs in a crater (Vesna). Copernicus was an important figure in establishing the concept of a heliocentric solar system.   Pop culture has fueled the imaginati