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

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 providing an imaginable protection space and acting as a shield (McCoy). 


Screenshot from Ann McCoy, Art|Sci Center + Color, Light, Motion 


As shown in the image below, the French architect, Boullée, built this symbolic space building to symbolize the human earth. This building has the stars projected in the sunlight through the holes in the daytime. This symbolizes how we live among the stars. Therefore, this artwork piece reminds me of how the scientific knowledge of astronomy is represented by technological art. As a consequence, the mixture of science, art, and technology provides us a medium of experiencing the world we live in through a physical form (Vesna). Projection technology has made it possible for artists to show viewers and have them perceive an ideological space where they are among the stars.

Screenshot from Ann McCoy, Art|Sci Center + Color, Light, Motion 


Objecting light through sculptures is very enlightening to how we perceive art in a different dimension rather than a painting or drawing. It allows us to experience how to see the light in another form, extending the boundaries of visual arts, as shown in the image below. 

Screenshot from Ann McCoy, Art|Sci Center + Color, Light, Motion 


Therefore, I recommend this event as it will help my classmates acknowledge the arts’ building materials regarding their physical sources of light, sound, and energy. Additionally, help with making critical connections between art and technology for the understanding of the different sculptures and architecture styles we see today. 


Marder, Lisa. "The Definition Of Form In Art.”  Thoughtco, 2020, https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-form-in-art-182437.


McCoy, Ann. "Color, Light, Motion. Episode 11: Ann Mccoy Lecture On OTTO PIENE". Vimeo, 2022, https://vimeo.com/706996713.


Vesna, Victoria. "5 Bioart Pt3.” Youtube.Com, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpD3np1S2g&list=PL9DBF43664EAC8BC7&t=322s.


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