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This week’s course material really refreshes my understanding of nanotechnology. I agree with Jim Gimzewski and Victoria Vesna’s idea that ‘seeing is believing’ does not apply to nanotechnology. Nanotechnology introduces a whole new area into our lives as well as touching beyond everything we have known so far. Art and nanotechnology intersect in a unique way. This new science is ultimately about a shift in our perception of reality from a purely visual culture to one based on sensing and connectivity.  Nano-Art experimental combination surprises with Anti-HIV effectiveness The unique works on a previous art exhibition at John Curtin Gallery demonstrates innovative examples of contemporary art and scientific collaboration. One artist featured in this exhibition is Boo Chapple with his Transjuicer. She has been working on a project to make audio speakers out of bone. Through the piezoelectric nature of the bone, she is able to cause the bone to vibrate and generate sound....

The intersection of Neuroscience and Art helps me understand how Neuroscience developed through Art. Before taking this class, I thought Neuroscience is a branch of modern science since it requires to look inside human brain, where modern medical technologies are usually required. However, in the lecture Professor Vesna introduced that some artists and scientists and their works paved the way in exploring Neuroscience as it developed throughout the historic period.  Neurons in human brain To begin with, we can look at the beginning of primitive Neuroanatomy created by Franz Joseph Gall who is a German physician known for his phrenology chart. It was an attempt to look at the individual intellect and personality from an examination of the skull’s shape. He was convinced that the mental functions are localized in specific regions of the brain and that the human behavior is dependent upon these functions. This reminds me of my Linguistic 1 class. Language is processed in th...

For my second event, I went to Eli Joteva’s graduate solo show at UCLA Broad Art Center, which was called mnemoawari. Mnemoawari performed a cycle over the course of three days, during which three cryo sculptures released their entropic potential into virtual and material memory: past, present, and future. Each cryo sculpture was made by different materials. The materials used to make these sculptures are flowers, sand, fungi, rocks, and water. Each of them was made layer by layer using a mode. The “past” was projected onto three separate adjoining walls in the room. Each projected image is different from each other since they were made of different materials. On the screen, three spheres rotated at a constant speed. They represented the initial states of these ice spheres. Wildflower ice sphere: the "past" The “present” was depicted at the corner of the room. The ice spheres were melting down at an extremely slow rate due to the room temperature. Some material...

BioArt is an art practice where artists work with live tissues, bacteria, living organism, and life processes. The artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studio using scientific processes such as biotechnology. Even though BioArt has drawn attention to ethical issues, it is still a good example that life itself is a valid expressive medium. As an engineering student, I have taken life science course so I am quite familiar with the topics about transgenics, mutilation, mutation, recombinance or selective breeding. I would easily relate these topics to the scientific field but not artistic field. After viewing this week's materials, I realized that they are pretty similar if artistic medium follows the standards in manipulating living organisms and semi-living systems. Heliconius Melpomene butterfly, one wing has a "natural design", whereas the patterns on the other has been artificially modified In Lecture Part 1, Professor Vesna gave an...

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