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Event #4

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I went to Judith Hopf’s exhibit at the Hammer Museum for my final event. As soon as I walked in I saw numerous sculptures made up of brick and cement holding them together. I really appreciated how Hopf creates her sculptures with raw materials from the hardware store. This inspires me to believe that I can make beautiful sculptures. I found it interesting how each sculpture had a different finish. For example, the penguin sculpture (my favorite) had a very smooth body and beak but its arms seemed like they were hand molded. This sculpture looks like it took a lot of time to sand down and perfect. The feet look like they were chiseled into shape where you can see the air pockets in the feet which show dimension and depth. Penguin sculpture  Feet sculptures I found the ropes hanging In the corner of the room remarkable. It was a stark difference to the rigid brick and concrete I the center of the room. Ropes hanging from the
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Week 9 Space + Art

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This week’s lectures were amongst the most interesting to me. As a child I always enjoyed watching The Jetsons. The Jetsons TV show has been around for just over 50 years, at the same time as the cold war. The Jetsons TV Show Characters I was too young at the time to understand that such technology actually existed and was improving day by day. The topic of space and art will continue to be a huge driving force in scientific advancements around the globe. As we learned this week, the Soviets launched Sputnik I in 1957 which made history by becoming the first artificial satellite (NASA.gov). Soon after Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut was sent into outer space and completed an orbit of the Earth (Wikipedia.org). Yuri Gagarin Neil Armstrong This prompted the USA to respond by sending Neil Armstrong to be the first human to physically walk on the moon (Wikipedia.org). All of this, to me, shows how us humans have been extremely interested and invested in the art
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Week 8 Nanotechnology and Art

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Nanotechnology and Art Strelitzia-like titanium oxide - Simone Battiston and Andrea Leto From listening to Dr. Gimzewski who has had about 30 – 35 years of experience, nanotechnology seems to be a relatively new concept. This week’s readings and lectures focused on the history of nanotechnology and its new and developing applications. The term “nanotechnology” was invented by Norio Taniguchi who was a professor at Tokyo University of Science (Wikipedia.com) in 1974. Nanotechnology is defined as ‘todays science, technology and engineering’ conduced on a nanoscale. Its applications can span from creating tennis balls to medical gauze to silver embedded into socks or   t-shirts to reduce odor and bacteria (McKenna). There are approximately 25,400,00 nanometers in one inch. The scanning tunneling microscope (NanoScience.com),  in my opinion, is the most interesting invention created by using nanotechnology. This impressive microscope has an exceptionally thin tip that is
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