| Week 8 | Nanotechnology + Art | Blog
As science and technology dominate our daily life and way of thinking, inevitably, our aesthetics has revolutionized. Nanotechnology, one of the most significant rocket sciences, not only changed our way of living in terms of medical, mechanical or other scientific subjects, but also broadened our vision into the nano world that one could never perceive with naked eyes.
Nanotechnology helped us to observe and discover the world on a nano scale through touching and hearing. For instance, Boo Chapple, one of the pioneer in nanotechnology and art fields, applied nanotechnology in acoustic practice. Through the nature of bone matrix, Boo Chapple was able to manipulate the piezoelectric signals in a specific vibrational patterns, and thus the desired audible sound is played from the bone. And the bone itself plays as a speaker to enlarge the scale of sound. By doing so, people could obtain the feel of nanostructure through acoustic senses, the nanoscale objects are experienced in a human scale through interactions.
Nanomandala is a joint project done by artist Victoria Vesna and nonscientist James Gimszewkski. Mandala is a symbolic painting from Tibetan buddhism; Vesna and James projected the video consisting of the mandala onto a disk of sand with 8 feet in diameter. Through the video, Vesna and James zoomed in the mandala within a nanoscale and people could then feel the nanostructure of mandala through sand grains; and each grain of sand corresponds to a specific particle of nanostructure. The project provides people with a way to feel the “enlarged” scale of nanostructure by touching and vibrating sand.
References:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OerNS-Lu2Fg
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2013年11月24日星期日
Week 8 | Nanotechnology + Art | Blog
2013年11月17日星期日
Week 7 | Neuroscience + Art | Blog Assignment
Week 7 | Neuroscience + Art | Blog Assignment
Neuroculture, as a discipline of neuroscience subject, is becoming increasingly arresting in our daily lives, social practices and intellectual discourses. The neuroculture is highly inclusive in terms of phycological matters, such as phycological medications, criminal behavior analysis and stimulation of certain nonfunctional part of brain system. Basically speaking, neuroculture deals with social problems applying neuroscience based technology. As a sub-discipline of neuroculture, neuroaesthetics majorly focused on the artistic and commercial creations circulating in the public domain.
Neuroaesthetics is foramally defined in the year 2002 as the scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of a work of art. Neuroaesthetics use neuroscience to explain and understand the work of art at a neurological level that unconsciously implemented in the works . Researchers in the neuroaesthetics field are trying to figure out what is behind human’s brain of a specific individual through his works. And the exactly technique could be used to evaluate the reason why certain works are so compelling. The world known painting piece, Mona Lisa, painted by DaVinci, is inevitably the target of neuroaesthetics analysis. On the one hand, the painting, along with other paintings done by DaVinci, is highly valuable in analyzing the theories that DaVinci apply to his works and therefore lead a conclusion about the personality of him. On the other hand, by finding such pattern, it’s applicable to determine the myth behind the Mona Lisa as being so attractive. Therefore, links between people’s aesthetics contemporarily could be evaluated. 
Nowadays, neuroaesthetics are intensively applied in commercial advertisement and video games, such products of neuroaesthetics are based on the neurological behaviors of consumers. For advertisements and entertaining video games, the manufacturers analyze certain neurological signals that would attract corresponding customers and consciously transformed the signals into visual arts and deliver to consumers. As for other games or visual arts concentrated on training purpose, through interactions within the games and visual images, the nonfunctional or damaged portion of brain system is intensively trained with a specific purpose, and thus help cure neurological disease.
References:
http://playwithyourmind.com/brain-games/neuroscience/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZVV4Ciccg
2013年11月10日星期日
Week 6 | BioTech + Art | Blog Assignment
Week 6 | BioTech + Art | Blog Assignment
Nowadays, bio science is developing and expanding with sky rocketing speed that is similar to the PC development in the 70s. Publics are more engaged in the bio science field to “participate” in the breaking through era of biology. Consequently, artists, as trailblazers of discovering unknowns, step into the bio science field and create dramatic art pieces in terms of biology. Nevertheless, unlike other science related art, bio art requires artists to work with bio scientists to better expressing art through biological medium.
Biological techniques are used as tools in creating art pieces, such as transgenics, recombinance and selective breeding. All of these techniques applied are indeed dealing with the DNA of specific species. By extracting the DNA series of species and reconstruct through laboratory tests, the characteristics of those species alter to the desired expression.Hunter Cole, as an artist and genetics, interprets science as art through the creation of living artworks and digital arts. Through her Living Drawings exhibition, she depict the cycle of life and death using controlled bioluminescent bacteria, calling attention to our own mortality. Other bio artists create different color fruit, or apply genome in music composition. 
However, as the bio art and bio science appear more frequently and ordinarily, society starts question the mortality of biology development. People are concerned that the development of bio science would generate ethical conflicts against the value of human beings, like cloning. Also, the genetics variation might create uncontrollable biological disasters. Currently, regulations on bio science and bio art is in at a grey zone, and there is no well establishing laws against or supporting bio science. Therefore, more specific and strict laws and regulations should be established to prevent biological disasters.
References:
Ludwig, Stephanie. “Hunter O’Reilly: Finds the Art in Pathology.” Breakthroughs Magazine: College of Natural Resources (University of California – Berkeley) Fall 2007.
Nature Genetics 36.4 (April 2004): cover.
Artner, Alan G. “Art Reviews: Drawings Seduce with Illusion of Spontaneity.” Chicago Tribune 7 April 2006.
http://www.luc.edu/biology/hunter.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7538619/White-strawberry-that-tastes-like-pineapple-to-go-on-sale.html
http://blogs.saschina.org/aplangpd/2010/04/20/human-cloning-should-be-banned-–-temporarily-at-least/
2013年11月3日星期日
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