Nano+Bio+Art

The optical illusion which is of the greatest interest to me is the same color illusion . In this illusion, two of the same colors appear different due to a change in context . Much like the example given in one of the videos in today’s first lecture on color, the nature of the surrounding colors and values effects [...]

Romie’s and Miu’s talk of molecular nanostructures was particularly relevant to my group project. Using nucleic acids as simple building blocks, which I suspect will soon (or eventually in the future) be rid of, replacing biological factories with artificial ones, was a very interesting method of constructing nano sized structures. It is easy to recognize the potential of [...]

With the opening lecture, about color and sound, I was fascinated, though not surprised, to learn about the emotional connection our bodies maintain with the senses . Though this has always been present in art, learning the scientific nature of this phenomenon served to show how art could be applied to science just as much as science [...]

The unifying theme of my Saturday was not productivity. After going to the science museum I learned that small bits of factual information could be incorporated with museum displays to appeal to families with small children . The part that I enjoyed most was sitting in the introduction room of the ecosystems exhibit . They used seven LCD projectors to piece [...]

It seems that the unifying theme of today was the presentation of scientific data as art. We saw a presentation of spinal chord data in a way, as John Carpenter put it, that conveyed a qualitative “feel” of a healthy or unhealthy brain. This innovation really struck me as a next step in data presentation. Not [...]

Today started with one of the most fascinating lectures I’ve seen so far. Miu and Romie detailed how science connects to patterns in nature and how these connect to art. Some of it I already knew but their use of examples really did help illuminate what they were trying to say. The science of self organized patterns [...]

There were two main intellectual endeavors that the Sci | Art group embarked on today, not including Tron, of course. The first was perhaps the most directed lecture so far, optics and color. Second was more self directed and less scientific; we visited two museums on campus and looked at works of art. In addition we [...]

Today started with one of the most fascinating lectures I’ve seen so far. Miu and Romie detailed how science connects to patterns in nature and how these connect to art. Some of it I already knew but their use of examples really did help illuminate what they were trying to say. The science of self organized patterns [...]

The second day is over, or at least partially over; I’m sitting in the auditorium now about to watch Sleeper. It turns out that my passion for sleep exceeds my passion for Woody Allen films so I’m trying to kill this blog here. Today started with a lecture on waves by Mattia and Rita. It started with, [...]

Today began the first day of actual class at the Sci|Art summer institute at UCLA and thus I am to begin writing my daily blogs. There were two topics of actual lecturing that took place (though I would not be surprised to find out that I’d slept through an entire third lecture). First, I sat for [...]