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Event 4 | The Brain + Art with Mark Cohen | Livier Monarrez

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  In this event, The Brain + Art, I learned from Mark Cohen about how the disciplines of art and science intertwine. Cohen is an entrepreneur, scientist, and inventor who teaches at UCLA. In the event, he speaks of interesting concepts including how neuroscience has made way for us to understand art to the next level through which there are brain mechanisms that lead us to take in sensory information differently. These mechanisms have been evolutionarily adaptive as we perceive the world in a meaningful way. Cohen’s paintings, like the one below, show how our brain mechanisms allow us to be able to fill in the lines which are adaptive as our brain can fill in the gaps with the long grass as it resembles the black stripe patterns of a tiger.  Screenshot from Mark Cohen The Brain + Art Additionally, these paintings from Pablo Picasso like the one below show a woman sleeping. This artwork is quite different from regular paintings as your brain is able to allow you to perceive the...

Event 3 | Art|Sci Center | Color, Light, Motion

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In the event, "Motion as Sentience and the Pygmalion Complex,” carried out by Toni Dove we witness how robotics and art are intertwined to provide us a different perspective on how technological products are made possible through our artistic imaginations. In the robot artistic product shown in the image below we see how there are robotic screens and LED costumes that show the linkage between robotics and art. The artistic imagination is so crucial to new forms of technology that costumes can be made from LEDs with the electronic device becoming wearable (Dove). In the time of mechanical reproduction, we see how art takes form as technological structures such as the robotics (Benjamin). Screenshot from Toni Dove , Art|Sci Center + Color, Light, Motion  In this image, we see how we can make a robot come alive as a human. We can see how the robot mirrors human body motion. We can  see the potential robot art has in illustrating the physical human form. The technologica...

Week 9 | Space + Art | Livier Monarrez

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  Artistic works have been established to show space technologies. The intertwined of space and art are critical to showing the community advanced technology. For example, the exhibition in the Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) provides the community in the town of Vintage cultural and scientific projects including events, research, and conferences that show the ‘culturalisation of the space’ (Lechner).  Gregorič, Tomaž. "Gallery Of KSEVT - Cultural Center Of EU Space Technologies | Dekleva Gregoric Architects | Media - 6". Archello , 2012, https://archello.com/story/20294/attachments/photos-videos/6 .  Additionally, artists have created three-dimensional kinetic paintings that illustrate a Cosmic dancer as a geometric form that can be seen differently from different angles. This sculpture and painting was transferred to the Russian Mir space station on a Progress rocket. This space art project can be seen in the image below. This sculpture is establ...

Week 8 | Nanotechnology + Art | Livier Monarrez

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Event 2 | Art|Sci Center + Color, Light, Motion | Livier Monarrez

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Ann McCoy, a New-York based art critic, expresses the importance of art being portrayed with a technological framework. Technologically based art helps pioneers and artists express their imagination at a greater level. They take the art to a greater philosophical dimension by creating a space with lighting effects and double exposures. Artists and scholars showed their kinetic arts and explained the connections between them.  McCoy shows the Pantheon, the temple of all gods, and explains the oculus and temple is built with volcanic ash inside the cement. She describes how this building is built as a canopy covering all the gods. It is an imaginable space that relates to how artists use mathematics such as geometry to create their artwork (Marder). I was very impressed with how the circular sphere-like geometrical shape on top makes a building a space where one feels protected. The physical source of light on top and its dome-shaped rotunda ceiling create a closed environment provid...

Week 7 | Neuroscience+ Art | Livier Monarrez

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Through the neuro method of electroencephalography (EEG) technology, we have produced new artistic works that have inspired us to see how the principles of neuroscience and art are intertwined (Gardner). Through the development of the Octopus Mandala, an “event commissioned for Santa Monica’s Glow Festival in 2013,” there were workers who wore these octopus crowns lit with LED lights (Albu). The neural activity in the brain of humans is similar to an octopus, and these artistic works from the LED-lit octopus crowns can portray the interconnection between human and octopus mind relations.  Vesna, Victoria. "OCTOPUS BRAINSTORMING: EMPATHY | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab". Artsci.Ucla.Edu , 2016, https://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1271 .  In addition, our understanding of neuroscience helps us understand how our brains can capture artistic works in 3-dimensional. The cortical center's neural circuit activity reads our 3D world into 2-dimensional (Jay). Artists act as vision scientis...

Week 6 | BioTech + Art | Livier Monarrez

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Human creativity involves endless forms of applying the disciplines of biology, technology, and art intertwined. Throughout our living experiences, we can see how the discoveries in science and technology have become available for art (Davis). Science and art are not discriminate from each other but rather go together to make new technological inventions (Vesna). For example, artistic technologies can be valued by applying biology, such as the works by Joe Davis, who is an Artist-Scientist from Church’s lab at Harvard Medical School. He created biotechnology through the influences of artistic imagination leading to being the very first to develop bio-metalized silk, which can be used to take heavy metals from contaminated groundwater (Davis). Davis' creativity is fascinating and helped me become knowledgeable about how art helps us understand science. Therefore, artists and scientists should be able to freely use biotechnology as they both can contribute to its development.  Davis,...