Hybrid Worlds: NanoBioArt: Parsons DT
Spring semester, 2010
Students will be working with their artist / designer / humanist / scientific student peers at UCLA and getting an inside view and access to bio and nanotech labs via physical and virtual field trips. The class is designed for students of all disciplines, including the non-declared, with a goal to inspire students to think outside of the box, explore divergent and convergent thought, and seek out knowledge and inspiration from many different disciplines as well as encourage collaboration. Every week will be devoted to a particular theme with required reading, viewing of prepared movie clips and lectures by world-renowned scholars in the field. The class is taught by Visiting Professor and Director of Research of AMT Parsons, Victoria Vesna with a scientific co-teacher, Siddhartha Ramakrishnan (Science researcher at Columbia Univ.)