Week 9: Space and Art

 Week 9 Space + Art

This week’s guest speaker Richelle Gribble introduced a lot about the connection between art and space to me. I have been aware of the necessary relationship between art and science for a while now, but I keep thinking of the relationship as mostly one sided. Noting the ways that art benefits the scientific process, in the form of presentation, models, etc. 

 

Hearing Gribble talk about how some of her projects and fellow artists are benefited by their access to space was a first for me. Obviously, I knew that space and been represented in basically every artistic medium, but the physical relationship was new to me.

 

For Example, after the lecture I looked into Gribbles "Planet’s lab" project to try and get a more in-depth understanding of the relationship. They take up little satellites called coves as "Secondary Payloads" and they take pictures of earth. This blew my mind, that these satellites are in space currently, with the sole purpose of contributing to art. Which is much more involved than them just tagging along like in a car or shipping truck, they must be written into the plans extensively. Also, they are not up there for taking calculations or to look at weather patterns or any other scientific contribution. It is a very inspiring thought.

Photo sources

Image 1: Blueprint https://th.bing.com/th/id/R2e735e8e83721ebd4c1094cb8133476f?rik=yuu35ZBLLJbUng&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sorell.dm%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2017%2f07%2fBlueprints.jpg&ehk=WYXTgMLGDeqVt7nvaWE7%2fBpUvx0p5nD%2fdvYEvI21cH4%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw

Image 2: second photo on Gribbles gallery https://www.richellegribble.com/planet-lab

Image 3: Fifth photo in Gribbles gallery https://www.richellegribble.com/planet-labs

Sources

Bonestell - Home. Chesley Bonestell. (n.d.). https://www.bonestell.org/.

cosmic dancer - a space art intervention by arthur woods. The Cosmic Dancer Sculpture - a spaceart intervention on the Mir space station by Arthur Woods. (n.d.). https://www.cosmicdancer.com/.

MARS PATENT. MARS PATENT: Home. (n.d.). http://www.mars-patent.org/index.htm.

Planet Labs. RICHELLE GRIBBLE. (n.d.). https://www.richellegribble.com/planet-labs.

Smith, Y. (2015, January 8). NASA Image of the Day. NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html.

Week 7: Neuroscience and Art

 Week 7: Neuroscience and Art

This week’s topic was interesting but fairly complicated. During the guest speakers lecture on Monday I came out of it feeling like there was a lot more to be said on the topic, so I was excited to watch the recorded video from the professor. But I had a hard time following them because some of the connections she made were hard for me to follow for whatever reason.

 

I did however really enjoy the tedtalks, especially the one with Vilayanur Ramachandran. The different way brain damage can have results on people and the way he talked about them were interesting to think about, seeing the logic they used to explain the behavior was fun to follow.

 

He explains that the initial logic behind the behavior was flawed and goes on to explain how if you go with the initial logic off an isolated case it makes sense. bit falls apart when applied more widely. Though he did not talk very much about the art side of things, which I know was not part of his talk, but there were a lot of artistic input in his presentation in the form of the graphics used, and whole layout.

image Sources:

1: Screenshot from David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | TED Talk

2: Screenshot from Christopher deCharms: A look inside the brain in real time | TED Talk

3: Screenshot from David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | TED Talk

Sources

William Faulkner. (n.d.). Notes on Characters from As I Lay Dying. BookRags. http://www.bookrags.com/notes/aild/chr.html#gsc.tab=0.

Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Consciousness. Merriam-Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness.

A new way to explain explanation. (n.d.). TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation#t-262388.

A new way to explain explanation. (n.d.). TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation#t-262388.

 A look inside the brain in real time(n.d.). TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_a_look_inside_the_brain_in_real_time#t-167001.

Event Two: Midterm presentations

 Midterm Presentations

All the presentations were remarkably interesting. Seeing everyone have such deeply considered ideas made me think about my own midterm quite a bit. Most of the ones presented had to do with exploring concepts and unknowns, whereas mine was more of a straightforward invention. For the final I will be sure to try and talk to more classmates and see the approach they take.

I noticed quite a few of the projects had to do with dreams, memories, or feeling which, I think are all intertwined. I like how they all focused on expressing these things to others, SolArt by Mary being a great example. The concept being to track, record, and display dreams and emotions onto a 3d printed chip.

I think it is amazing as a thought experiment because it really does touch on so many questions. One of which is privacy, which I would have liked to hear Marys' point of view on. Personally, I think of dreams as very intimate and private things, so if this were created I would not want the company having access to them at any kind of data base. Marketing is also fun to think about, if these dreams are recorded would marketing companies want access to them so that they can target products? Though perhaps I an off the mark completely and people will be super open about them, posting the recordings on line, perhaps even volunteering/selling their dream data to companies.

Image Sources

Picture 1: Citrix. (n.d.). sharefile. https://barnraisersllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/collaboration-illustration.jpg.

Picture 2: From Marys' presentation

Picture 3: From Marys' presentation

Sources

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2020, October 21). Hearing aids: How to choose the right one. Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hearing-loss/in-depth/hearing-aids/art-20044116.

Techopedia. (2012, November 12). What is Targeted Marketing? - Definition from Techopedia. Techopedia.com. https://www.techopedia.com/definition/23796/targeted-marketing#:~:text=Targeted%20marketing%20is%20the%20process%20of%20identifying%20customers,a%20marketing%20strategy%20aimed%20at%20that%20specific%20group.

bradstreet, dun. (n.d.). What is Targeted Marketing & How Does It Work. https://www.dnb.com/resources/targeted-marketing.html.

Brain scan research shows that lack of sleep severely alters brain function. PsyPost. (2016, July 25). https://www.psypost.org/2016/07/brain-scan-research-shows-lack-sleep-severely-alters-brain-function-43977#:~:text=Brain%20scan%20research%20shows%20that%20lack%20of%20sleep,do%20not%20occur%20after%20a%20night%20without%20sleep.

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2020, April 15). EEG (electroencephalogram). Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/eeg/about/pac-20393875.