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Extra Credit Event #4 Blog

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Extra Credit Event Blog #4 My final event was the UCLA Design Media Arts “Weak or No Signal”, featuring 22 pieces from multiple artists. Photo from UCLA DMA 2018 MFA thesis exhibition https://www.artandeducation.net After this event, I looked up the Design Media Arts department and read about their mission. According to their website, their goal is to provide an extensive education in the subject, covering, “forms of visual communication, typography, interaction and interface design, ubiquitous computing, and virtual environments...” ( UCLA Design Media Arts Full ). The website displays a large gallery of works like this beautiful piece, “Misc Posters” by Stefanie Tam. This piece was also featured on the website “Trendlist” in September 2017, which I thought was awesome that this could be circulated easily throughout the visual media arts community. http://gallery.dma.ucla.edu/stefanietam.com/MISC-POSTERS Reading about Design Media Arts allowed me to better understa
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Week 9 Blog

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Week 9 Blog: Space and Art When I saw that this week’s agenda included one of my favorite films, Powers of Ten ( 1977), I was excited this would be my last blog. I am floored by the thought of space and the vast possibilities, and very interested to see the perspective of space intersects with art in our culture. POWERS OF TEN AND THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE.”  Eames Office, 2018 Viewing Powers of Ten was an excellent way to begin thinking about space. This classic by Charles and Ray Eames is described as, “a film about how large the universe is and how powers of ten become so drastically distant.” (Damiyr Saleem, 2011). The camera continues to zoom out until the viewer is taken into space and reminded how tiny our world is compared to the scale of the stars and galaxies of space. The distant expanse and concept of space have been broken down by space technologies and space as inspiration in culture and art. Annick Bureaud of the Leonardo Space Art Project Wor
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Event #3 Blog

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Event #3 Blog My third event was the Media Art Nexus lecture and screening on May 22nd. This lecture gave the innovative artists Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi the chance to speak about their work and collaborated projects. Their beautiful creations were so impressive, yet the lectures by the two were much more presentations than they were explanations of their inspirations and goals for the pieces, so it was up to viewers like me to decipher meaning in their art and make connections to our course. Professor Vesna at the lecture Conradi is an award winning new media artist and associate professor at the Nanyan Technological University in Singapore. Her current project focused on in the presentation is Media Art Nexus started in 2016 as, “a community public art project that aims at providing a platform for exhibiting interactive digital art created by the multidisciplinary community of NTU”(academic profile of Ina Conradi NTU website). The MAN (media art nexus) project integr
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Week 8 Blog

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Week 8 Blog: Nanotech + Art According to Vesna and Gimzewski, nanotechnology is unlike many other disciplines focused on observing in a visual sense. Understanding this new science requires a paradigm shift in perception of reality, “from a purely visual culture to one based on sensing and connectivity”( Vesna, Gimzewski, 2012 ). https://investingnews.com/daily/tech-investing/nanotech-investing/nanotechnology-uses/ Nanotechnology is both exciting and mind boggling. Unfortunately, many of the complex background and theory of this field can go over the head of less scientifically inclined people such as myself, so what I focused on in this week’s material were the example if nanotechnology intersecting with art and the medical field. Because of my interest in a medical career, I am particularly excited to see how nanotechnology will revolutionize medicine. Currently in progress is the creation of nanorobots as small as a red blood cell, capable of, “ cleaning the coronar
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Week 7 Blog

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Week 7 Blog At the same time as I am reviewing this weeks material about the mind and consciousness in this class, in anatomy I have been studying the inner workings of the brain and memorizing structures. What has really struck me about this is that the very structures I am ingraining in my mind and understanding are the ones I am using in order to study them. It is crazy how the brain and conscious mind give us perspective on the world and existence, but are also anatomical structures allowing survival. My diagram I used to memorize the major areas of brain Through the lectures and readings, I was stimulated by so many topics I could ramble on for hours. I particularly liked Giovanni Frazzetto and Suzanne Anker’s concept of “Neuroculture” as a framework by which, “neuroscience knowledge partakes in our daily lives, social practices and intellectual discourses” (Frazetto, Anker 815). I think this is a great concept and way to approach our own existence and participation in soci
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Week 6 Blog

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Week 6 Blog This weeks material required an extensive thought process to see the connection between biotechnology and art, but after watching the lectures and reviewing the wealth of projects and examples, I think I could come to the agreement that biotechnology can qualify as a form of art expression, it is just so new and so different from traditional art forms that it becomes a new kind of category. This ushers in a time of change and makes many uncomfortable to see the stretching of biology by human manipulation into a public statement. Context for this paradigm shift was recognized by Chris Kelty, in his statement that these kinds of novel artists have left the “era of very small communities of biologists that regulated themselves” to having to navigating federal laws restricting experimentation. Ethical questions are very much in focus when it comes to these art forms. www.newscientist.com/article/dn16-mutant-bunny/. This is what intrigued me the most from the weeks mat
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