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Extra Credit Blog 2: LASER: De-colonizing AI

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Event Blog: LASER: De-colonizing AI I attended the event titled LASER: De-colonizing AI which discussed the issues that have evolved around the intersection of artificial intelligence and art. As many of us have seen through the internet are the new incredible things AI can do for art, from photo alteration and generative art. This event explored the concerns surrounding artificial intelligence as it relates to art and people wonder if there should be limits placed. There are also debates on if this artificial generation stunts creativity or if it acts as a spark for creativity, generating ideas to further human creation of art. Amir Baradaran called the art world a fragile ecosystem that AI is invading. One of the major concerns of this AI generation of art is the eurocentricity of it all. There has been a problem with the eurocentricity of art long before AI, as most of all art included in museums are created by white men. Some of the AI softwares that have been popular on the intern...
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Extra Credit Event Blog 1

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Extra Credit Blog: LACMA I attended the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art or more commonly known as LACMA which is home to many different exhibits that change every couple of months. Today I visited an exhibit titled Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 which explores computer technology through art, from a time before the technology boom. By focusing on the years between 1952 and 1982, we can really see how far we have come and how our technology and art have both grown immensely and flourished during that age and the time to come. This exhibit also displayed the intersection of technology and how it related to the general public displaying fax machines and other devices that were commonplace to humans during this time. The image above features screenprints by Eduardo Paolozzi of geometric patterns fused with popular imagery of the time such as Disney’s Donald Duck or Goofy or Cold War Weaponry. This exemplifies the ideas (people’s entertainment, hopes, and fears) people...
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Week 9 blog post: Space and Art

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  Week 9 blog post: Space and Art Initially, the connection of space to the humanities is apparent as each of the planets is named after the Roman gods and goddesses. Today, we have seen a huge separation between the arts and science, but (as we learned in this course) in the past, back when the planets were named, the separation was not as wide and this is demonstrated by the shared names of the goddesses and the planets. Another important connection between the arts and science is through science fiction, which began as early as the 1800s. Science fiction is important for the advancement in science much of the motivation to create and innovate, comes from the ideas of writers. We dream up these incredible ideas, such as putting a man on the moon, and we push ourselves to make these dreams a reality. Not only does science fiction allow us to imagine new frontiers, but it can also inform people of what is already a reality. For example, The Martian by Andy Weir, while it is a fict...
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Week 8 Blog: Nanotechnology and Art

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Before this week, I was not entirely sure what nanotechnology even was but I found that it is a field of science and technology that involves the control and manipulation of matter at the extremely small scale of atoms and molecules. Nanotechnology encompasses a wide range of disciplines that we have discussed in this class, such as chemistry, biology, and engineering which are all related to art, just as nanotechnology also is.  One significant aspect of nanotech's relation to art lies in the materials it enables artists to work with. Artists can use nanomaterials to develop paints that change color based on temperature or light exposure, resulting in dynamic and interactive artworks. Airikh explains how innovations in nanotechnology have made the paints she uses exhibit colors more vibrant than ever before. Another pigment created with nanotechnology by Surrey NanoSystems called Vantablack which is an artificial material described as one of the darkest substances ever created. Th...
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Week 7: Neuroscience and Art

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Week 7: Neuroscience and Art Perception is hugely important in the creation and understanding art, and perception is tied closely to neuroscience. The relationship between art and neuroscience is a growing field of study that explores the intersection between the brain, perception, and artistic expression.  Perception is a process that our brains interpret and make sense of the world around us involving the brain's ability to receive, process, and interpret sensory information from our environment. By studying the neural pathways, brain regions, and cognitive processes involved in perception, neuroscience helps us understand how the brain transforms sensory input into meaningful perceptions of the world. In order to create art, we use our senses for inspiration for art. Then perception is important in bringing our ideas to live in sculptires, on the canvas or any other artform, for others to then percieve and appreciate.  Much of the connection between neuroscience and art rev...
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Event 3: "Leonardo da Vinci on Visualizing the Forces of Nature: Gravity"

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 Event 3 This event titled "Leonardo da Vinci on Visualizing the Forces of Nature: Gravity" is a dialogue that discusses da Vinci’s ideas about gravity that were much before his time. The two speakers we got to hear from are Claire Farago and Matthew Landrus. In an age of climate change, Weve started looking at DaVinci’s work again to examine his interests in the natural world and one of the profound ideas da Vinci had were about gravity. Professor Gharib has staked a claim that Da Vinci knew about gravity before the famed Gallileo, and that Gallileo learned from Da Vincis notes. Da Vinci used his knowlege of mechanics and geometry to understand this science.  Da Vinci looked at the grains of sand as they fell and began to understand gravity and had profound ideas that were before his time. According to da Vinci, as the grains of sand fall, it gains speed due to the constant acceleration imparted by gravity. Da Vinci may have not had the expiramental work and mathmatical proo...
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Event 2 Blog: Rita McBride's Particulates

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Event #2: Rita McBride's Particulates at the Hammer Museum The event I attended was Rita McBride’s Particulates which is a part of the Contemporary Collection at Westwood’s very own Hammer Museum. I attended this event on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 16th. McBride initially caught my eye because she is from Des Moines, Iowa, but as I looked further into her work, I found it to be extremely eye-catching and interesting on a deeper level.  Particulates is very striking visually, as it is made of neon beams of light in a vibrant green hue. The beams transform what is essentially an empty space into an entirely new world. McBride's art explores the relationship between architecture, design, and art which is reflected in the space she chose to display Particulates. The space in the Hammer Museum reflects those of office buildings and the drab corporate world that has been transformed through McBride’s installation. The beams pierce through a mist of water molecules, dust, and surfa...
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