The First blog assignment by Tiancheng Lin(704203383)

Before taking this course, art and science seem two totally different things to me. Science as Kevin Kelly said in his article “The Third culture”, “is a lofty term. The word suggests a process of uncommon rationality, inspired observation, and near-saintly tolerance for failure.” However, art is a word stand for craziness, more freedom and creativity. I think this is because of the influence of stereotypes that scientists are all like Einstein and artists as van gogh. After reading some articles and watching the lectures, my view has changed a lot.

My major in UCLA is applied mathematics and in this case, most of my classes will be in south campus where most scientific major students study. Before this course, I hardly had chances to the north campus and I thought north campus buildings should all be in retro artistic style and named after great artist. However, after my tour, it is surprising that most buildings there are all modern and with a normal name. Moreover, every building there has the influence of both science and art. For example, some buildings are old but the equipment inside are all high-technique. This is just what professor talked in the lecture, the third culture.

                                UCLA north campus, Royce Hall

                           

                     UCLA south campus, student center 

The third culture, called nerd culture by Kevin Kelly, is a concept first mentioned by C. P. Snow in his “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”. In these two articles, the writers all gave the idea that art and science are compatible. It is necessary for us to make a combination of art and science, or one of them will definitely decline.

For me, with the inspiration of the idea, I might spend more time on literacy or art staff than before. This is because I had known that although they seem to be unrelated, there are still some aspects of art that can benefits to my science study. To give an example, a lot of researches need good skill of drawing and observation, which requires sense of art. In this case, an artistic mind can give you better chance of correct drawings and careful observation.

                             

          The famous picture drawn by the da Vinci in the Renaissance which needs high skill of drawing and knowledge of anatomy.

                       

      The successful corporation between famous space suit designer,Moiseev and material scientist Ted southern, make the space suit design firm called Final Frontier Design.

Resources

Snow, C.P. “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.”Cambridge University. 1959. Print

Kevin Kelly, “The Third Culture.” Science Magazine(1998.1) Web. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/279/5353/992.full

Wekepedia, photograph, web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Janss_Steps,_Royce_Hall_in_background,_UCLA.jpg

Webpage aboutRenaissance,photograph,web http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/renaissance2.html

Mark Crawford, “The Final Frontier of Art and Science”, 2013.4, ASME.org Web. https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/aerospace-defense/final-frontier-art-and-science