Week 1 Blog: Two Cultures

 

Professor Vesna's article "Toward a Third Culture: Being in between" signifies a harmonious incorporation of the technologies, humanities, and arts, pointing out a new multidisciplinary archetype in which technology and art act as medium connecting fields that are often considered opposite or irrelevant in the traditional sense. This "Third Culture" is in accordance with C.P. Snow's vision, which stresses the equally significant and unique role of artists and technologists in promoting cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration.

                                                


Using UCLA campus as an example, the traditional notion to separation between the arts and sciences can be shown by the intentionally distanced parts of campus where departments related to arts and humanities are concentrated on the north campus and sciences on the south. Such distribution of departments is probably because that the designers of our campus speculated students who majored in arts and humanities are less likely to be associated with events in the sciences fields, and vice versa.


Nowadays, through various real life examples as well as the contents we learn from this class, it is obvious that arts and sciences are closely related and constantly fostering each other. For example, the creation of movies relies largely on the technologies that give them more vivid special effects and more detailed filming angles. It also helps me rethink about my own talent since I have always considered myself bad at drawing. Now, I realized it is not that I really lack the talent in drawing, but that I have never put efforts into learning and practicing it because I had this preposition that I am better at sciences and worse at arts. The contents we learned in this course definitely help me remove that notion.




Reference Links:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
2. https://rabinkyart.com/illustration/ucla-campus-map-illustrations
3. https://artofthemovies.co.uk/blogs/original-movie-posters/what-are-teaser-and-advance-posters
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=65TtYZfrL_0&ab_channel=SocPol
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

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