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Event 3

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For the third and final event, I went to the Design Media Art exhibition-"Delete Me". This is an exhibition by the graduating class of UCLA Design Media Art that focuses on the various form of deletions of life. Delete is not simply an act of removal. After we delete, we will have more space and can utilize these space for better. From this various form of deletions, we will get something new about our daily life.  Shanzhai Untying the messy rope The exhibition is huge with many artworks, the most artwork among all the events I have been to. There is a girl trying to untie a messy rope. This is a behaviour art by Symrim Chawla that demonstrate the action of deletion with a ball of rope. Through her action, she “deletes” the messy rope and transform that mess to an organized rope ready for future use. There is also the wall of Shanzhai (counterfeit of consumer goods) by Yuehao Jiang. The artist uses foam to create some commodities that have often been the targ
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Space + Art

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Last week, we discussed one of the extremities on the scale of size, nano-technology. This week, we go on to the other end of scale, the vast space. The space is unlimited in size; at least we have not been able to detect the end of space. It is empty, weightless, dark, cold. Yet, it provides the building molecules that formed, our Sun, our Earth, and ultimately us. There are still so much mysteries about the space. Therefore, artists have used their imagination to explore the space on behalf of the scientists. Art Depicting the Vast Space  Blade Runner(1982): Video Call The first area of art is the TV and movies. As human technology advances, we flew out of Earth and enters the Space Age. However, our current technology can only take us so far; we cannot even send people to mars. But through movies like E.T, Star Trek, and various others, artists have showed us the space in their mind and solve the mysteries with their imagination. And some of those arts has given our techn
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NanoArt

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Example of NanoArt NanoArt is a new art that combines science and technology. As its name suggests, NanoArt are done at nano-level. So it is only possible with the use of modern technology that allowed us to see at nano-level. Nanotechnology is about engineering at molecular level. It was first introduced by Richard Feynman in 1959. He did not bring up the term “nanotechnology” in his lecture “There’s plenty of Room at the Bottom”, but he suggested the idea that scientist could build things at atomic precision(CRNANO). Since then, many work have been dedicated towards creating machines at molecular and methods to observe at that level. One application of nanotechnology is on the skin-care and beauty products. These products are more related to us since most of the people uses some kinds of skin-care and beauty products on a daily basis, especially the females. Sunscreen contain titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles, which are highly reflective to protect our skin f
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