Space + Art
This last week of lecture presents art in space while incorporating prior concepts of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and mathematics. Space is a really interesting concept to me and something that I previously do not have much knowledge on. I put in some thought before watching the lecture and found some similarities between the realms of art and space. Like art, space is a place with no rules and endless possibilities. Because the both are so intriguing and complicated, it made me eager to learn more about the interconnectivity of the two.
The “Powers of Ten” video was very interesting to me in the concepts of technology’s ability to capture in depth so far into Earth(1977). Starting at a picnic by the lake in Chicago, this video moves to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds, we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with fast speed, it moves inward into the hand of the sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. The video ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. I was fascinated at the technology and the ability to zoom in and zoom out so fast while it being so clear. The science, technology, and art that goes behind this video supports so much that I have learned from this class. Watching it zoom out like seen below was very intriguing because of the perspective it brought to me. The zooming in of the hand, also seen below, was so cool to see the depth in which cameras can catch of our biology. Both go beyond the eye's view which brings so much potential for art to continue to create beyond perception and vision in general. The film displayed how the use technology links art and space where space becomes a resource and palette for artists to create.
Other Citations
BaPSF, 20 April 2022, https://plasma.physics.ucla.edu.
“Ten Modern Masters Who Elevated 'Space Art' to Astronomical Heights.” Artspace, 3 October 2017, https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/ten-depictions-of-the-cosmos-by-modern-masters-55022.
Vesna, Victoria. “Lecture Part 1- Intro” DESMA 9, 1 June 2023, UCLA, Bruinlearn, Unit 9.
Vesna, Victoria. “Lecture Part 1.” DESMA 9, 1 June 2023, UCLA, Bruinlearn, Unit 9.
“Welcome to the Mars Patent.” MARS PATENT, http://www.mars-patent.org/welcome/welcome.htm.
Hi Kate! i related a lot to your blog, i too know very little about space and am a bit perplexed by the concept of space and get a bit freaked out if i think about it too much. i watched that youtube video as well and I think it is so fascinating how technology is able to capture the outer edges of the universe to the smallest atoms of them all
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