Wow, already here comes the end of the Sci Art program. What? You ask me what I learned from here? Hmmm, lets just stay that my mind has been opened. Never have I ever thought critically and truly “imagined the impossible”. Simply attending a chemistry course or a biology course would have simply been a repetition of what teachers at school tell me. But this incorporation of art here at Sci Art truly defined the necessity to be creative and original. For me, science has always been about the past. Schools teach about what has happened. They teach us its history and past breakthroughs in technology and to me, science seemed DEAD.
But now it is a totally different story. Coming here to Sci Art, science has now become living and flowing. It is an unkown species that can be explored forever and still we will never be at the end of our journey. For me, science has resurrected.
I believe I’ve been too much of a realist and a pessimist. I’ve constantly criticized this program, stupidly thinking that science and art can’t be combined to create something new. Yet I was so blind to the possibilities of the combination of arts and sciences.
I think that what this program is emphasizing is the ability to create new things through the combination of science and art. Instead of combing those two to make a totally new class of knowledge, we create new THINGS. The combination of science and art wil create objects that the world would have never seen if these two different thoughts were not combined. We must always think about the future and always pushing on, and therefore we must think of the impossible. The combinatino of science and art was “impossible” but it is now the most possible thing possible. If that made sense….
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/1999/00000006/F0020006/949
http://www.evidenttech.com/quantum-dots-explained.html
http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/background/ferrofluid/index.html
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4S54FQKgeQUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA145&dq=nanobots&ots=jy3Wow6Fpu&sig=hxSCvrha-YspYx9_JYRWR5LYsKg
http://www.sci-spot.com/Chemistry/liqimag.htm