MODULE 3: The Cultural Aspects of Science and Technology Flashcards
Example of Architecture
Shanghai Tower
Example of Sculpture
Marble (Venus de Milo)
Types of Painting
Abstract art
Photorealism
Pop art
Art Movement
Realism (1840)
Impressionalism (1860)
Expressionism (1910)
Surrealism (1920)
Art that is made or presented using digital technology.
Digital Art
Digital art started in the early 1980s when computer engineers devised a paint program (AARON), used by the pioneering digital artist ____________ ____________.
Harold Cohen
Example of Digital Art
Composition 319 (2021) by Summit Mehndiratta
Who captured Afghan Girl (1984)?
Steve McCurry
History of Music
- Ancient Music and Oral Traditions (Prehistory - 1000 BCE)
- Medieval and Renaissance (500 - 1600 CE)
- Baroque and Classical Eras (1600 - 1800 CE)
- Romantic Period (1800 - 1910 CE)
- 20th Century and Contemporary Music (1910 CE - Present)
Reaction against modernism
Postmodernism
Orion constellation resembling a “hunting trap”
Balatik
Pleiades constellation resembling a “rosary”
Moroporo
The pinnacle of enlightenment and pedagogy
Great Library of Alexandria
Two institutions of the Great Library of Alexandria
Biblion (where texts where archived)
Museion (where learning took place)
Grand library of Baghdad; one of the leading libraries in Islamic history, “Golden Age of Islam”
The House of Wisdom
What era characterized by a class-based society, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world.
Victorian era
Network of networks, system of interconnected computer networks able to communicate and exchange information
Internet
Imbalance in data vs. attention leads to?
Darwinian selection
The portrait is a product of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.
Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy
