Nano+Bio+Art

Writing this last blog makes me realize how much I am going to miss this summer course. We all got so used to the idea of making our blogs every night that now knowing that this is the last one creates a strong premature feeling of melancholy. Looking back at everything we did over the past [...]

The day started with a lecture on visual and optical illusions, which I found very interesting as we got to apply the knowledge we had gathered over the past few days on how us, humans, perceive the colorful world that surrounds us. We already know how color emerges when a source of light emits white light [...]

The day started with a lecture off with a very interesting lecture on molecular nanostructures (1). We were told that nanotechnology existed long before humans started using it as has always been present in biology. Scientists are currently borrowing structures from nature, such as from proteins, sugars, lipids and most importantly nucleic acids as these are [...]

The day started with a lecture of bio-waves and their connection to humans. We learnt about how colors, luminescence, sounds and smell (1) are processed by humans, a process that mainly involves biology and physics, as well as how these waves have a certain effect in the human brain, such as hunger, joy and even basic instincts. I [...]

Everything we did today summed up to make a perfect closure for this first week. Today we explored three different places that seemed to focus on just one field: a science museum, an art gallery and Venice beach, however putting tags on these didn’t seem fair as in the end, we found out that there were [...]

Today we learnt about the usage that is given to technology in the field of art. As we already know, art has never faced any limits. From the cave paintings to painting on canvas, or from banging on empty tree trunks to playing the keys on a piano, humankind has always found a way to express [...]

Today we explored a new element that connects art and science: color. The day started with a lecture that introduced us to the optical properties of material as everything has different characteristics that make it differ, visually, from others. We were shown that what we recognize as colors are a type of waves whose wavelength is within [...]

The third day of this course continued demonstrating how art and science go hand in hand. Today we no longer studied the world of waves, colors or sound as today we dealt with more vivid topics, such as nature, creatures and human creations. This new elements were not seen with a one-sided perspective as that has [...]

Today’s lectures were much more entertaining and interesting than what one could have ever imagined. The dull and stressful subject of waves took a whole other meaning once it was put into a different context with exiting examples that I had never experiences before, such as the example of the superconductor. The next image is the experiment [...]

Today we were all introduced to Nano-science, an area of study, that according to  Morehead ( http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=Zoom_vocab.html), deals mainly with the study of the different properties that materials acquire when manipulated at a  nanoscale; however we learnt that this definition is incomplete as even though it focuses mainly on miniscule materials, Nano-science embraces other areas that differ from applied [...]