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Event 2 Meteorite Museum (UCLA Campus) Today I went to the meteorite museum on the UCLA campus. I had never been to the meteorite museum before, I really enjoyed it I look forward to going back in the near future. The small but very open Space allowed me to walk around and really lose myself in the exhibit. I felt as if I was really in space. This museum is definitely one of the hidden gems on UCLA's campus. Already I finish to pay The meteorite museum was a collection of meteorites and information about meteorites. The meteors that were on display were found all around the world. in the center of the room there're three meteorites. Next to them a brief description about where they where and who found them. The coolest part for me was how old the meteorites were estimated to be.  Seems to me that there weren't that many meteorites on exhibit. It Seem that there were more posters than actual rocks. I don't know why that, maybe I just couldn't find the whole ...

NanoTech + Art  Nanotechnology is different than any subject we have discussed so far as the "art" being created is not visible to the naked eye. Nanotechnology is working with matter at the atomic level, far too small to see without instruments. Because nanotechnology works at such a molecular level, old scientific techniques become out dated and no applicable, but have the ability to be influential in changing the world at a social level. Nanotechnology is a collaborative effort, just like the artists are becoming, as science ideologies must be reinvented and there is a clear paradigm shift. (Vesna intro) An interesting part of Dr. Gimzewski's lecture was his discussion about the first to conceptual talk about nanotechnology in 1959, Mr. Richard Feynman. He gave a talk called, "There's plenty of room at the bottom," where he suggested how much room there was at the atomic level to create new technology, that could change the world. Feynman ...

Neurosci + Art Like last weeks blogs, neuroscience is an ever growing field of technology, new knowledge, and more  comprehension of the human brain. The human brain is responsible for the most within the body, as maintains the state of the body and is responsible for all thoughts. Neurons play a major role in the nervous system while they are responsible for connection between cells. "Golgi's method," coined by Camillo Golgi, is a neuron staining technique. It looks as so:   Another interesting topic involving the brain and neurons are drugs and hallucinogen. In the 50's, LSD was to have thought to be a psychological marvel to help cure depression and cases of  schizophrenia. As LSD is also supposed help alcoholics, the drug has the ability to access one's subconscious. Once the an artist is able to tap into their conscious and subconscious brain, their artwork has little restrictions or guidelines. The artist can theoretically portray images and thoughts that...

BioTech + Art As BioTechnology, and technology in general expanding at a rapid rate on the cellular level, the artists have began working with biologists and live tissue, organisms, and life processes. This has raised discussion as to what "BioArt" entails. Furthermore, their are ethical debates about artists "meddling with the genetics structures of natural systems." (Vesna) Joe Davis was the pioneer of BioArt as he had an idea of putting sounds to light information, in which he called the Audio Microscope. The Audio Microscope allows for one to "hear" living cells, as each cell was given its own signature sound. He then took this idea farther to look at how E. coli responded to jazz, in efforts to create sound waves that would act stressful to bacteria. He would later use E. coli as the vehicle to send a sign of human intelligence and to "send a message in a bottle" to the extra terrestrials. He chose E. coli because it is essential for hum...