Desma 9

        Nowadays, Nanotechnology becomes a hotted topic for general public to discuss and explore. In fact, California NanoSystems Institute locates at UCLA with the mission to translate discoveries into knowledge-driven commercial enterprises. James Gimzewski, a UCLA professor with 35-year related experience in Nanotechnology, states that advanced nanotechnology is potential to change the world in terms of social and economic types of values.       Nanotechnology provides a unique and minimal insight on the world, which combines with current arts to achieve ubiquitous standard and scale. Tami Spector pinpoints that the ambiguity of the focus and scope of nanotech/science has yielded a boon in creativity and productivity among scientists precisely (para. 2.) Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski mix arts and nanotechnology to project sand as images in a evolving scale from the molecular structure of a single grain of sand through means of a scanning el...

On April 6th, I went to BuildingBridges for the event: Understanding Art & Research. This exhibition has been newly adapted and designed after presentations in New Zealand (Dunedin School of Art) and Singapore (Nanyang Technological University Singapore). This exhibition is coming after that research. One thing which most impresses me on this event is the utilization of one app on introductions to all artworks in one exhibition. This is a perfect example of collaboration between technology and arts in the real world. Visitors can use this interactive app to find out more information about the artifacts in the exhibition. Because the exhibition place is usually comparatively small to the number of visitors, visitors will be more convenient to explore more about the artifacts. I am really eager to see its application in the real world since I was surrounded with hundreds of people in front of Mona Lisa last summer and competed for the closet position to listen to the tour gui...

  As technology advances, people pay more attention to the neuroscience. Since arts comes from the consciousness of human beings, consciousness needs humans' brains working in order. As Kukk mentions, some have characterized their findings as exploring the powers of the social brains. The huge amount of achievements should give credits to the brain, the consciousness. Thus,  neuroscience helps people to keep brain work both practically and artistically healthy.  Based on definition of consciousness from Victoria Vesna, "the state or condition of being consciousness" becomes the general way to recognize the world. This theory got supports from Howard Gardener, a leading cognitive psychologist who regards studies of prodigies and brain damage shed light on issues of creativity and cognition. Brain, as the most integral part, determines the appreciation and production of arts. Vincent van Gogh, the famous artist with psychosis and depressive disorder, makes the repr...

     As technology and science evolve, the palette of the artists extends and expands with biotechnology genetics and technology, in general, really expanding into our bodies and our environment. (Vesna Video2) Nowadays, we can see inter-discipline applications of Biotechnology and arts in our daily life.       DNA/ RNA editing in human beings is a common strategy used in Biotechnology, which further uses into artists' work. Since scientists created the powerful gene editing technique Crispr, they have braced apprehensively for the day when it would be used to create a genetically altered human being (Kolata para.1). There are some artists attracted by this magic technology to study in laboratories. Kac uses a biotechnology method to insert DNA sequences into bunny' genes. Bunny itself can translate GFP, green fluorescent protein, to show green light in dark.   Alba, the fluorescent protein       In addition, biotechno...