Desma 9 Spring 2017

     This was an interesting event since it was about the environment. In this class we never had the opportunity to discuss the environment that much. The main speaker I saw was Dr. Katie Pelch who works at Tedx. She talked about the Endocrine System and how it can be impacted by the environment. (Screenshot of the Confirmation Email)     Tedx is different than Ted Talks and is more medical and environmental. Their mission is to, “prevent damage to individuals from the moment they are conceived through the balance of their lives by chemicals that can alter how their bodies are formed and function” (tedx.org). This is interesting in that rather than looking at people who suffer with this, they are trying to find ways to prevent it. This will help other future generations and will save more people. The endocrine system works with the nervous system and includes many glands. Dr. Pelch mentioned that some problems that those with unhealthy endocrine systems face are: Reproductio

            For this 4th event, I went to a talk on intersex and listened to Dr. Georgiann Davis from UNLV and Dr. Vernon Rosario from UCLA. This was interesting because I do not know much about intersex. Intersex, according to insa.org is, “variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male” (insa.org). This would be like someone born with a male appearance, but having female anatomy.  (Sign at the Event)     Dr. Davis is very knowledgeable on this topic as she has written many works on intersex. Some of the things she mentioned are: It is hard to mark This makes sense because how will the parent know what gender the baby is and feels? The parent should not have to make the choice for the child If the child is born intersex, they should have the choice to choose later It is a slower process for transexual people as they need to prove A transgender person

For Event 3, I visited the graduate student center in Culver City. This was an interesting experience as I was able to see so many different types of art. I was most fascinated by the glass andceramic works by Maccabee Shelley and Alex Anderson. (List of Artists) One sculpture by Mr. Shelley is a picture of a melted computer part in glass. It was interesting as Mr. Shelley explained that in such high temperatures, only some metal can be solid, the others melt and this creates a certain color depending on the material. I had thought his work was painted, but the colors were from the melted metal from the small computer part. We also briefly talked about the difference between glass and ceramic works. This takes an understanding of science because one needs to know the temperature certain metals melt art and the colors they produce. Ceramic art is created by forming the object through clay or some other form of paste (difference between). However, once it is heated, it is extremel

Space and art are two vastly different fields. With other technology, art can make sense, but with space, it seems more far-fetched. However, due to performer Guy Laliberté, it has become more intertwined.     If the name Guy Laliberté sounds familiar it is because he was the one who founded Cirque du Soleil and is a billionaire. In 2009 he went to the International Space Station or the ISS (Foust). He claimed to go because he wanted to reach people through an art perspective and he claims that he is "an artist, not a scientist" (Foust). He claims that it was seeing Apollo 11 that influenced him into deciding to go to space.  (Guy Laliberte)        Alan Bean, is the opposite, he was an astronaut who then became an artist and creates his art based off things in space. He was the lunar module pilot and the 4th person to walk on the moon. He has at least 50 paintings on the Earth and the Moon (Foust). Rather than studying space, he has taken the time to create paintin