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Extra Credit Event 1: The Getty Museum

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The Getty Museum is like Disneyland. There are just too many things to do and see in one day! I went with two of my friends from this class and we have all already talked about how we are going to come back for the whole day! Going to the Getty Museum and seeing all that it entails, it is hard to believe that it only opened as recently as 1997! The famous picture that almost got us kicked out of the Getty Museum!!          The Getty is composed of drawings, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculptures, and decorative arts. In fact, one of my friends Hannah got in trouble for going too close to a sculpture. For me, I can see a lot of evidence that math and art coexist when looking inside the galleries. First, I ventured into the Renaissance Art in North Italy and Northern Europe exhibit. In that exhibit, I saw art composed of such interesting angles and perspectives. It made me think back to Frantz article where he talks about vanishing points and looking at art. Marc Frantz
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Event 3: Live Experiment Explores How Brainwaves React to Music and Color

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On May 5 th, I attended the Live Experiment that explores how brainwaves react to music and color. At this event, I learned about a series of collaborative works with Professor Victoria Vesna called Brainstorming. At these collaborations, the possibilities of brain to brain communication are explored. At this event, I learnt how there are signals that can be found on the human head. These signals are commonly known as brainwaves but are actually called EEGs, or “electroencephalogram”. Brain waves were first observed in humans by Hans Berger. He discovered them when learning about the basis of extrasensory perception. Based off this discovery, he believed that these signals could be read like a radio transmission, where people could share their thoughts to one another. Although this seems a far-off reality, his discovery has already shown effects in medicine today with monitoring brain tumors and surgeries.          In this experiment, it incorporates art and science. This exper
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Week Nine: Space and Art

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Sun captured in October! Looks like a smiley face on a jack-o-lantern!           Space involves looking across immeasurable expanses at wonders of unfathomable scale. It’s hard to even comprehend the true vastness of space. With shooting stars, black holes, planets, comets, asteroids, and so much more making up this great phenomenon, it is easy to see all the art that exists in space. Images of space are transforming how science communicates,  how knowledge is gained about the universe, and how we see space. The Artic in Summer With all the knowledge gained about space, it has shown us how small we are. In my opinion, nothing captured in art is as pure as raw pictures captured of space. Due to this, I believe it is the most important art being made or captured anywhere today. I can back this thought process up with a question. Soooo... did we land on the moon or what?!? Which pictures from our era will be everlasting? Images of space are like the equivalent of the S
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