Monday was a really neat and eventful day. First the museum, then the LAPD plasma lab, and finally the book collection. First of all, I thought the art we viewed at the Fowler Museum mind-expanding. The exhibit consited of Aboriginal ‘Dream’ paintings from Papunya in Australia. These painting were recent, considering that most Aboriginal art […]
The lecture given by Rita and Gao this morning was centered around shape, in nature, in engineering, and in art. One random thing that I thought was cool during the lecture was learning that opals are clusters of nanospheres that reflect light and that their colors are resultant from shape differences, because I was always fascinated […]
The Fowler muesum of art was very nice. It was a cool change of pace to what seems to be the intense science that we have been learning. Seeing the art of the Australian natives was amazing, the patterns pretty psychedelic and i was pretty inspired. The plasma lab was very crazy. The had this […]
Today was the first day I saw a direct connection between art and science. Regardless of the fact that it was the most obvious and straightforward correlation one we’ve witnessed so far, the message of this program has finally settled in my head. A skeptic in the beginning, I can now see that […]
Today, Giacomo Chiari from the Getty Museum gave a lecture on the science behind art conservation. This stimulated my reflection on how, although art and science are intricately related and dialogue between the two are absolutely necessary, they remain separate domains, though the border between the two may blur. The lecture reinforced in my mind […]
Perception is a really intriguing concept to me. It is such a personal thing, yet ever evolving as society, science, and art does. Perception really encompasses all disciplines- it matters in science, in literature, art, history… It really connects to the idea of “imagining the impossible”-things we believe true now might be proven wrong by […]
Today was a pretty relaxed day. Our lecture was given by Victoria Vesna, whose discourse on her journey as an artist was interesting to me. I understand and feel the same way about what she said regarding her inner desire to create things that haven’t been done before. Her deep connection with sound in her art […]
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan demonstrated to us LUCAS imaging technology, which utilizes a mobile phone equipped with a lensfree imaging tool. Then, holographic “shadowlike” images of the patient’s blood can be sent from the phone, or uploaded to a computer, to specialists for analysis, who can then text back results. This can provide for portable and inexpensive […]