Nano+Bio+Art

Our assignment for today was to find an optical illusion of our interest. I thought that this illusion was very cool and unique. It makes me think that not everything is the way it seems. This piano seems to be broken and a pile of junk, but when you look at the reflection in the mirror, [...]

Honestly, I felt like today was a sluggish day. I was not as awake as I would have liked and I felt like I didn’t really understand the lecture about molecular nanostructure. When Romie introduced the term “molecular origami” and “DNA origami”, I thought it meant we could manipulate and fold structures however we want. I [...]

Biowaves was our topic of the day. We learned the human connection with sound, color, and emotion. Emotional response is basically a given. I’m pretty sure everyone has listened to music that made them feel a certain way, whether it by joy, happiness, mellow, hyper, etc. But what I found really interesting was that a mother is [...]

Today is one of the most memorable day I have ever had. I will never forget this experience for as long as I live. I never know when I will be able to have this kind of an opportunity again. I was very fortunate to be able to sign up and get into this program. I wanted to be [...]

Today’s first lesson was by a guest speaker, John Carpenter. He works as an interactive and visual designer. He showed us some of the projects that he has done which is basically in the area of something called morphosis architects. Morphosis is a collective practice committed to rigorous design and research that yields innovative buildings and [...]

Our assignment for today’s lecture was to find an animal or plant that has unique optical properties. The Pacific barreleye fish has a soft transparent dome on the top of its head. Its eyes are barrel-shaped and can be rotated to point straight up or forward, looking through its tranparent head in order to view the [...]

I never really thought about why nature is the way it is. I thought everything was there on its own purpose and taking form on its own but I never really thought about how things naturally develop in nature. Today’s lecture was presented by Miu and Romie on the art forms in nature. This lecture was mostly looking [...]

Today was an interesting day! Even though I had learned about waves during my freshman year, I felt like today was a refresher and I even learned some super cool stuff about waves! I knew that there were waves such as mechanical waves, electromagnetic waves, etc. But I never knew there was something called cymatics. I thought that sounds [...]

Today was the first day of the Sci|Art Nanolab. I have been anticipating for this day from the moment I first signed up for this program. My friends, teachers, and even my parents have asked me what kind of summer program I have signed up for and the only response I could give was “I don’t know!” and [...]