Sydney_Chiang_desma9

 This week's material was very interesting. Connecting art and space makes me think about all the amazing photos that we have captured of the infinite space. In addition, all the technology utilized to be able to capture the photos in the first place. With art, science, and technology, we are able to visualize beyond our world. It is really cool that we are able to capture images of these unknown places through photographs, paintings, drawings, and with our own eyes. Galileo used the telescope to make out mountains and craters on the moon and was able to see the Milky Way galaxy. He drew the images he saw of the moon and this helped advance technology to be able to capture stars, calculate stellar distances, and gather information about chemical composition and motion of celestial objects.  Hilding, Tina. “Cougs in Space: Launching satellites and careers – WSU Insider.” WSU Insider , 10 March 2022, https://news.wsu.edu/news/2022/03/10/cougs-in-space-launching-satellites-and-ca...

 This week's material was really interesting. Dr. Gimzewski introduced quantum dots and he said that they were a type of nanoparticle. These nanoparticles are in our everyday lives, we may not know that they are there because of how small they are. However, their size makes it hard to believe the types of products and technology that nanotechnology creates. Nanotechnology is integrated into our everyday lives even if we may not realize it. For example, nanoparticles of silver are used to deliver antimicrobial properties in hand washes, bandages, and socks. In addition, zinc and titanium nanoparticles are active in UV-protective elements used in sunscreen.  “The big future of nanotechnology in medicine | Past | Events | Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA).” European Parliament , 11 June 2020, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/events/details/the-big-future-of-nanotechnology-in-medi/20200611WKS02881. Accessed 20 May 2022. While researching more about this t...

 This week's material with neuroscience and art seem like they may not be similar, but in reality there is a lot in common. Our minds create art both consciously and subconsciously.  I think that the idea of consciousness and the ability to use it for art is cool and it takes last week's material one step further. The brain is so interesting in that it is very unique. There are so many functions our brain allows us to do. The idea that we can draw out our nervous system looks like is very cool because it is very detailed and just helps show the relationship science and art have. Another interesting thing our brain allows us to do is dream. About 95% of the time we don't remember our dreams. There is so much research on what happens in our subconscious minds that is fascinating. Freud argued that our subconscious minds were a place that is not being used for positive things and nothing was really going on there. On the other hand, Jung argued that this was where our creativi...

 This week I attended Jessica Irish's zoom meeting. She talked about how plastic is harming not only our Earth, but the human race and animals.  From this meeting, I learned that micro plastic is now in almost everything. Micro plastics are in our food, water, environment, and even in rain. In 1940 plastic was created, for the most part plastic has been helpful for our everyday lives. It has been created to be helpful to us in order to store things, in buildings, transportation, and industrial machinery. The consequences of plastic is much bigger. Wild life in the ocean, for example, are dying from consuming plastic that is left in the ocean. Jessica's example she used were whales in the ocean. This example connected the issue with real life and it showed the serious consequences plastic has on not only the humans, but the animals as well. In addition, she had mentioned that there is now more built mass than natural ecosystems left on Earth. This is highly problematic because ...

 In this week's lecture, we learned about biotechnology and art and the ways that they work together. This week's material really opened my eyes to something I had surface level knowledge of previously. I knew that biotechnology altered genetics, but I did not know how it could connect to art. Eduardo Kac's green rabbit was created by transferring a fluorescent gene from jellyfish to the cells of an albino rabbit. Though it is cool that there is now a glowing green rabbit, it is a questionable form of the use of biotechnology. Some genetically engineered organisms make me think that maybe biotech artists are going too far with their experiments and should not push the limits to what they can do with genetic engineering.  Another example would be artist Marta DeMenezes' butterfly wings. She modified monarch butterflies' wings and the result ended with holes in their wings. Similar to the rabbit, cell structures were altered and the genetic makeup of the organism was ...

 The integration of art, science, and technology can be found in the medical field. In this week's lecture, we discussed how the medical field uses art and technology to do a variety of things. Today, technology is used to diagnose and find medical conditions that cannot be seen without the help of such technology. For example, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology is used to visualize, diagnose, and treat conditions that are not seen from the outside. MRI images are like an artwork itself. It shows an image of the structure of the human body. We are able to see the structures inside our body we cannot see with the naked eye. Silvia Casini's research of MRI configurations show that MRI scans have been used to make many art pieces.  In addition, the lecture mentions the project Body Worlds. This exhibit had preserved bodies that were made as sculptures. They have unusual sculptures and some parts are even alone, but this exhibit preserves the anatomical structures to ...