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Hammer Museum: Jeannie Oleson (Event 2 or Extra Credit 2)

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From her beginning in the suburbs of Oregon, Jeanine Oleson’s art work has come to capture more than her humble background. She as an artist relishes in creating tangible props that symbolize the subject material she is working with. It’s a combination of both research and video and photography to bring to live these artifacts, usually through sculptures. Conduct Matters , the work at display at the Hammer museum, is a look at copper and its intensive use during the boom of capitalism and afterwards. It combines the resource with art while at the same having a human touch. The instruments and objects, the art, serve functional purposes for humans. The rug which sits plainly in the middle of the room is a reference to modernist abstract painting with its unique design. The videos that were playing on the small televisions were also a product of her creativity. It was an ensemble performance based on copper-related processes. To take something that most people would find boring, copper,
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Fowler Museum: African Print (Event 1 or Extra Credit 1)

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Touring the room at the Fowler Museum on Africa Print brought me a cultural awareness of a whole another set of people solely through their textiles and clothes. From looking at the wide assortment of diverse textiles, it was deductible that 3 key characteristics describe African print: bright colors, bold images, and complex patterns. These patterns go beyond their aesthetically appeal as they provide  sociopolitical commentary on the African diaspora. While some may have be more influenced by history, others provide modern designs with hints to the globalization of the world. It was both intriguing and funny to see one with Obama’s face stitched in. African print has come to represent Africa’s artistic style for the past century. Similarly, African dresses take a similarly bold approach in its design. The patterns complex and colors bold, all in all holding meaning beyond just cloth. My personal favorite dress was the yellow one with the pink flowers. It’s always interestin
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Space and Art

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In order to truly appreciate space & art, the definition for art needs to be expanded from a drawing to all forms of the art including movies and other visual mediums. There is no better example of space and art working together than in movies. Some of the most intricate and creative special effects have been in Sci-Fi movies. One recent example is Interstellar, which spends a lot of time in space. However, I think beyond the movies itself, the movie posters are also an artistic expression. Not only do they strive to convey the theme, but also hint at the story. A movie poster “says” a lot of things. The movie poster for the 1979 Alien is one of my favorite movie posters of all time. With 99.99% of the world not actually having seen space, everything we imagine about space is created thru art. If there wasn’t art, we wouldn’t really even be able to imagine what space would be life. Our whole perception of space is essentially a visually recreation. Space art also points to how art
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Nanotechnology & Art

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Nanotechnology provides an impeccable synergy of art, technology, and science. The science being the study of items so microscopic that they are invisible to the human eye. What that requires is the use of advanced technology such as the Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Through tactical sensation and feel, the technology creates an image of items at the smallest of nanometers. This image is essentially art. The intertwined use of multiple fields undermine a general growing trend of the global world where there has been a growing intermingling of people, ideas, and sciences. While viewing all the material from this week, I recognized in ways that nanotechnology is similar to biotechnology. For example the ability to change a nanoparticle from opaque to transparent is akin to genetically modifying the color of flowers or fruits in biotechnology. The most thought provoking topic of the reading was the future implications of nanotechnology. The concept that it will spurt robot technology to
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Biotech & Art

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Biotechnology is an integral aspect of modern science and exemplifies the union of science and art. The very essence of biotechnology is tweaking an organism at its biological core. Through the manipulation of genes through certain drugs, experiments, hormones, etc., it is akin to take a brush painting over a picture. In doing biotechnology has led to the cross organize genetic engineering as studied during this week. Examples of these include artificially injecting genes into animals and even as far as human DNA inside a plant. However, the field does come with its concern. One of the most controversial field of biotechnology is tweaking the genetic makeup of an embryo to produce the exact babies parents desire. Someone would be able to change anything from physical attributes to potentially making their kids smarter through genetic modification. With the advancement of technology progressing at an exponential rate, future technology would allow biotechnology to a
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Medtech & Art

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It’s hard to find a field that stands unilaterally in our ever-merging world. Fields that were considered opposites have find common ground and has been a running theme of this course. Now we long onto medicine, technology, and art. According to Professor Mangione at Thomas Jefferson University, students with more “right brain” qualities are becoming more successful in today’s “digital, image-based world of medicine.” These right brain qualities relate to imagery, visual and drawing skills. Understanding medicine and anatomy requires to a strong sense of visual awareness and attention to detail, both traits that can be learned through art. Another example is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Relatively new technology, an MRI lets doctor essentially create portraits of the human body. It shows how the advancement of technology has led to changes in medicine that presents a crossover with art. All the imagery and visual stimuli in medicine and the need to decipher and understand it, the
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