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Extra Credit Event 2: Coyotes in Two Directions, Sarah Brady

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I visited Sarah Brady exhibition opening: Coyotes in Two Directions on June 7 at Art | Sci Center Gallery, CNSI Building at UCLA. I did not know about the Coyotes, before I attended to this event. According to the researches, Coyote is an animal, canine. They look similar to wolves. According to the explanation by Sarah Brady, this exhibition examines the signifier of the trickster and shapeshifter as a symbolic metaphor to create techno-hybrid forms. They said coyotes are the symbol of mythology and surviving under Anthropocene, the human impact on Eco-System. First time, I get this information I did not really get what does this statement mean. However, as soon as I saw the art crafts, I recognized the meaning of this statement. As I entered the exhibition, this one came in my sight first. I think this is the thing I saw at the earlier exhibition, Weak or No Signal. This craft was named as "Aposematic". It has one leg and six moving arms. The difference between the

Extra Credit Event 1: Weak or No Signal: MFA Design Media Arts Thesis Show

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The event " Weak or N o Signal"  was really visual and sound concentrated exhibition by the graduating class of 2018 at UCLA. They provided monitor and head sets for pretty much every crafts that they exhibited. According to the explanation of the exhibition articulated contemporary subject matters, from hyper-mediated social relationships to artificial intelligence, technological utopianism, and the increasing fallibility of the image. Since I am an Electrical Engineering major and considering artificial intelligence and machine learning as my future career, I was really interested in this topic. As soon as I enter the entrance, I could see this picture on the left it is called "(b)Latant Space: Facile Substance". As the first time looking at this art craft, I did not really capture the purpose of this piece. However, It was enough to grab my attention. I looked at the thing on the right, which made me think of biotech and neuroscience lectures since it looked