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For my third event, I attended a Zoom "Vibratory Fields" and I found this one to be my favorite so far. Learning about the rhythms of brain waves, eye movement, and muscle tensing was fascinating while watching the video and seeing all of the movements. One of the speakers talked about how the noises were supposed to be subtle, but I thought they were actually quite creepy to listen to, but was extremely fascinating to learn the science behind it. She described some to be "too loud" and "distressing", which was the feeling I got, but to be able to find a solution to close their eyes to lower the brain waves' rhythm was something that was an experiment as they tried to figure out how they could solve this issue.  Alex Grey has an artwork shop that I thought fit this event because he uses the body and mind as a field of energy through vibrations. His artwork mainly consists of work like this, but all of it is an art that is used in a scientific way and r...

This week's module was really interesting to me because it was not something I was really familiar with or have considered much. The John Curtain gallery was informative and left me wondering how audio speakers out of bones would work. Scientists being able to work with atoms to create different structures was something I had never heard about. Therefore, the idea of making the bone vibrate to generate sound was shocking.  (Medical illustration) Furthering my understanding of nanotechnology showed me how many opportunities there are for artistic development within this science. The use of nanotechnology in art has been used for restoring paintings using hydrocarbon droplets to stabilize the substances and bring the artwork back to life.  (Brancacci Chapel) For healthcare, nanotechnology seemed like it would make a huge impact on doctors, nurses, and patients. Being able to use nanotechnology to identify cells to check for diseases/sicknesses to target these cells and find meth...

I found Jean Piaget's section of "Art, Mind, and Brain" to be really insightful for this week's topics. Talking about mental development intrigued me because the way the brain works has always been really interesting to me. The neuroscience that is related to this week's topics was shown through Piaget's work as he concluded studies on children's minds and within the reading we read about dividends found such as sensorimotor intelligence. These studies were to prove that "actions could eventually occur "within the head" -- in fact, such "mental operations" form the "mainsprings" of what is usually called thought" (8).   (Sensorimotor Stage of Children: Britannica) Reading through "The Embodied Mind" the idea of art and neuroscience together outlined how these are "self-organizing" (96) and consist of two different stages. STM and LTM processes of retaining information and recalling it. This is fas...

On May 5th, I attended the third session of cosmological elements. This session focused on floating civilization which I thought was really interesting because it wasn't something I had quite thought of. Bringing together art and space science through astronomical data and elements and in this session we were in a standpoint of scientific perspective while looking at different building blocks.  (WUR) One argument that stood out to me in this session was how the complexity of scientific understanding frames knowledge and thinking as well as policies and decision-making. The different exhibits were fascinating, but one I really liked was "The Man in the Moon". The idea that moon geese are part of cosmological elements was really interesting because of the way they were incorporated. In the exhibition, we were shown what was built with the geese. This was also a thought experiment and showed how we can connect these other parts of life when we are thinking about space.  (New...

Human life as opposed to living organisms is an interesting topic as far as how much controversy can be behind this. The slime mold that Ellen Levy talked about in her essay intrigued me since I have never heard of this mix and how it is important to the evolution of microorganisms. Biotechnology on the use of organisms as opposed to art allows scientists to modify these organisms.  (Leonardo Biotechnology) The photo above is a gallery from Arizona State University, where they produce products of biotechnology and art. They relate these to how "intertwined" both are together and the relationship they share. These are aimed to spread knowledge and share evolution with viewers but also incorporated race, sex, gender, and rights of animals.  One that really fascinated me was Joe Davis's project "Lucky Mice" on serendipity. Using this experiment with art and science together creates benefits to society to be able to visualize as well as understand the controversy th...