Today we watched the butterfly effect. The movie was all about cause and effect relationships resulting in ways that are unexpected or startling. These effects are shown in the life of the main character who has the power to go back in time and change his past. Consequently he has the power to change the pasts of those close to him. The movie goes indepth about the changes he makes when he goes back in time. Cause and effect are a large part of science and scientific discovery. The movie began to incorperate art in the way that he changed his past. At first he was attempting to better his own life. However at the end of the movie it becomes about helping the people around him. This brings an artistic element to his time meddling. Instead of simply pure science his time altering becomes an art, making change to cause a specific result. He attempts to use the science and art separately and reaches unsatisfactory results. At first he helps himself and the people around him suffer. Later he manages to save everyone around him but he himself ends up maimed and unhappy. Finally he mixes the art of time travel with the science of time travel and results with a satisfactory timeline. The metaphor of time and the way it demonstrates change through cause and effect relates to this camp and the way we link art and science. Through time this movie links art and science and gave me a new perspective on linking the two.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_butterfly_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionality
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/W/wormhole.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencetopics/largehadroncollider/3324491/Time-travellers-from-the-future-could-be-here-in-weeks.html