Event 3

This past weekend I visited the Noise Aquarium at UCLA University. In my opinion, I found this aquarium rather confusing but non the less still interesting. I think that the Noise Aquarium relates most to the Biotech + Art section in this quarter. I think this because the creativity from Professor Vesna, in creating a presentation through standing on a pressure pad in the center of the room, which then triggered a random form of plankton type to show up on screen, which also triggered the sounds and noises from the pollution from which those plankton made up. Below is a picture of myself standing in the noise aquarium enjoying myself watching and listening to the various sounds of nature through Professor Vesna's presentation.

Professor Vesna's creativity created a presentation that allowed the person standing on the pressure palate to be surrounded by noises and feel what it would feel like to be surrounded by those plankton from the pollution, which also made it easier for the person standing on the pressure plate to receive a greater understanding for which plankton showed up onscreen. Therefore, Professor Vesna created an informative lesson with the addition of artwork in technology that allowed the person using the system to learn about the certain type of plankton, through noises, appearance, as well as information our professor was giving about all the plankton that showed up on screen. Below is a picture of one of the plankton types that showed up on screen.

Overall, I think I enjoyed this experience and found this to be very helpful. The Noise Aquarium taught me a great deal about plankton and pollution and the various noises made from these plankton through the pollution. I would definitely recommend this aquarium to my classmates as well as friends because I think the information I learned about the plankton taught me a great deal about the pollution and also showed me visually in person the relationship between Biotech and art and how they can work together to create a very informative and creative and fun experience all together.

Week 9 - Space + Art

Ever since the beginning of the star wars trilogy, movies and books and comic magazines, have been romanticizing about outer space and the endless possibilities of occurrence in the world unknown. Because so little is known about outer space, the creativity for theories provide freedom beyond the normal human brain. In most movies, the image of space travel, flying through jumps from one barrier to another leading to more and more planets has been cemented in our minds. The most popular movies providing us with these images are Star Trek, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, and pretty much all the Marvel Avengers movies.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Universal_Neural_Teleportation_Network

The relationship between outer space and art, is where our knowledge of outer space comes from in the first place. From artists drawing pictures of our milky way, to making sculptures of our solar system. Because someone telling people that our earth rotates around a star sounds crazy and nobody would believe it, but when people can visually see how, and what causes the earth to rotate around the sun, it sounds a lot more plausible. Paintings of other planets in our solar system also help visualize what those planets would look like if their planet had our atmosphere and all earth-like features. An example of artists painting pictures of planets from our solar system is from Chesley Bonestell, where her picture shows what the surface of other planets in our solar system look like.

https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/shadows-moon-make-point/

Another way outer space and art are related to one another is through the many constellations created by humans throughout the thousands of years we've studied the stars. The constellations consist of connecting the dots, or drawing lines from one star to another to describe a certain group of stars. Some people use these constellations for travel use, where if needed to follow a certain direction to get to safety, following a certain constellation can lead to open area for safety. Most of the popular constellations are Capricorn, Aquarius, Ares, Taurus, Gemini and more.  The constellation names are far easier to remember than remembering every star in the solar system, because there are more stars in the solar systems than there are grains of sand on the Earth.

https://interestingfactsforkids.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/the-constellations/

“Bonestell - Home.” Chesley Bonestell, www.bonestell.org/#prettyPhoto.

“CODED UTOPIA.” Continental Drift, 18 May 2009, brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/coded-utopia/.

Knudson, Annalise. “NASA Invites Public to Send Names to Mars.” Silive.com, Silive.com, 26 May 2019, www.silive.com/news/2019/05/nasa-invites-public-to-send-names-to-mars.html.

“Leonardo Space Art Project .” Leonardo Space Art Project, 1996, spaceart.org/leonardo/.

“MARS PATENT: Home.” MARS PATENT: Home, www.mars-patent.org/.