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 Event Blog #1: Pigeon Art April 25, 2024 For my first event, I attended the pigeon art studio event.  Professor Aaron Blaisdell explained that he trained pigeons to peck a computer as if they were pecking for food. Depending on the programming of the computer, the pecks resulted in various lines, colors, thickness of lines, and intersections. I will be focusing on the stained glass collection because I found that the most intriguing. In this collection, any two consecutive pecks caused a line to be drawn. Blaisdell explained that a physics student ran a script in which anytime there was an intersection of three or more lines it would fill in a color.  Examples of pigeon art (all photos are my own) The creation of this pigeon art truly reflects the combination of art and science that we have learned throughout the course. The pigeon’s creation is the art, and this art was able to be formed because of the understanding that we have of science. First of all, the physics...

  Week 4: MedTech & Art           Art has been extremely important in the advancement and development of medtech. People learning medicine use diagrams, drawings, and models of the human body, which are created through art. For example, the human genome project, which aimed to provide a genetic blueprint for humans, required art to demonstrate what the scientists found. In other words, scientists often rely on visual representations, or art forms to represent their medical technologies.  The Human Genome Project, particularly a visual representation of the findings from the human genome project (Image 1). Furthermore, medical technology influences art. For example, the medical textbook entitled Gray’s Anatomy was used in the popular show entitled Grey’s Anatomy . The knowledge of scientific discoveries and advancements, particularly medical technologies, helps generate creative yet realistic ideas for several types of art. Additionally...

 Robotics & Art           During the 1400s, the rise of the printing press allowed information to be more easily accessible. The printing press also made the process of printing books much more simple and easy through the mechanization of printing. The invention of the printing press can be compared to the invention of the internet because the internet has made information more accessible and easier to find.  Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press (Photo 1) With the rise of this technology, art has become much easier to replicate. However, controversy arises when art is replicated because the art is not unique and lacks “its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be” (Benjamin 1). Therefore, although technology makes art easier and more accessible through easy replication, many people don’t consider the art genuine. Additionally, technology has brought about the rise of robots. With this rise o...

 Week 2: Math & Art In this week’s lecture and readings, I learned that art and math influence each other much more than I thought. I didn’t realize how much artists use math in their work, whether this is intentional or not. For example, artists want to portray three dimensional shapes and things onto a two dimensional canvas, which requires mathematics (Vesna 9:44). Additionally, math can be considered a type of art because mathematics requires creativity and has an element of beauty to mathematicians. Many mathematicians therefore consider themselves artists (Werdann). Furthermore, the closeness between art and math can be shown through the idea of a fourth dimension. Physicists believe there is a possibility of a fourth dimension, and Einstein thought that this fourth dimension included time and space (Newcomb). Therefore, mathematicians and artists are both “‘working simultaneously on a metaphor for space in which paradoxical three dimensional experiences are resolved only...