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  This week, I attended Mary Maggic's event on April 22, 2022, topic is " We’re All Living in the Estroworld".  I n Mary's talk, she used the term "biohacking" very often, which is something that I don't really know about before. And thankfully I got the chance to explore them with Mary Maggic today. So biohacking, according to Mary's explanation, is a form of knowledge production, but out of institutional knowledge. With that being said, biohacking is a form of knowledge in which people create new biology knowledge on their own, in a non-traditional way, not from textbooks or schools.  Moreover, Mary mainly focuses on sex hormones in her work, and most of her art works' purpose is to visualize those hormones to people since sex hormones are invisible to us, but they are all around our daily life.  And she wants to minimize and neutralize people’s anxiety, fear and panic about existing in this world through her work, such as in workshop and parti...

https://www.accademia.org/explore-museum/artworks/michelangelos-david/ When it comes to the topic of the relationship between medical technologies and artist projects, the first thing that comes into my mind is sculpture and anatomy. Before the advent of modern anatomy, ancient Greek sculptures can accurately display muscle lines and show details of the human body on sculptures. The reason is that Ancient Greece has similar disciplines, such as Aristotle's zoology, and Galen's anatomy (mainly animal anatomy), but there are also other ways of understanding anatomy such as surgery and autopsy. https://www.dreamstime.com/digital-artistic-sketch-human-anatomy-based-own-d-rendering-property-release-not-required-digital-artistic-sketch-image159359837 However, people/artists can also get a general understanding of human modeling methods through external observation and don't underestimate the knowledge of artistic anatomy left by the artist through the works of art. To expand, the...

               In The Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, written by Walter Benjamin, he believes that the aura has disappeared from the works of art in the era of mechanical reproduction, because the characteristics of "mass production" make the works lack authenticity: that is, the uniqueness and the eternal value of the presence, the characteristics of the work of art are transformed from the uniqueness of their original activities into reliability (Eiland&Jennings). After the loss of aura, the value of artistic works for religious purposes is greatly reduced, but relative to the loss of cult value, it also reveals its unprecedented exhibition value. The changes in the means of mechanical reproduction have allowed the objects receiving the work of art to reach the level of tactile receiving due to the reduction of the natural sense of distance (Thacker, 2020). At the same time, the masses have been transformed from the objects ...

  https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/picture-this-using-art-to-explore-math-and-math-to-create-art           Mathematics has a great role in promoting the development of art. Looking at the history of mathematics, mathematics has the greatest influence on the art of painting, especially in promoting the development of the expression form of painting cubism. We know that art is the most direct manifestation of changes in philosophical thinking and artists’ reflections on the changing environment. Although mathematics does not have a key impact on all cultural movements, it acts as the only and most important role (Cooper, 2019). https://www.ideelart.com/magazine/3d-printed-art           This is a piece of 3D print art from Rirkrit Tiravanija, this is a great example of how math had influenced art and science. The field of painting art is particularly prominent. Artists have begun to use the language and ideas of mathematics...

     As a transfer student who transferred to UCLA two years ago, I barely spent time on campus. I am majoring in psychology, which is defined as a science, but I personally think it is more like the art of human behaviors, and the majority of the public doesn't consider it a formal science. However, we do learn and discover a lot of topics that are related to brain circuits and how neurons connect each other and deliver information throughout the body. Kind of difficult to understand, but fascinating to explore.  https://www.verywellmind.com/major-branches-of-psychology-4139786 The motivation that encourages me to take the path of psychology is to help people through the art of communication, and learn how people’s behavior is formed. Sometimes, I could find some intersection between the science of psychology and art, such as emotions and color.  http://laimeskelias.lt/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Plutchik-Wheel-and-Uniting- Opposites.pdf https://blossom...