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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

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