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     This week, all topics that we've been discussing since day 1 are brought together in the concept of space. This chapter is overall fascinating to me as I, since I was young, loved learning about space and the wonders that are beyond our solar system. From the starting ideas and exploring of astronomy, Copernicus brings the push to study space which is now one of the main focuses in today's time. The only difference is the innovation of technology and art that allows us to further explore. “Key Events in Astronomy Timeline.” Timetoast Timelines, https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/key-events-in-astronomy-9041f05d-8127-418c-9cce-5638639f50f7. Accessed 26 May 2022. Early Space History      The beginning of space history, was something truly interesting and mind blowing. With the competition to enter space between high ranked nations, USA and Soviet Union, along with creating NASA in 1958 in order to continue this competing effort, this has turned into th...

     Nanotech and Nanoscience are topics I had yet to explore and are a rising area in today's time, especially when finding the connections with art. After watching the lectures and the sources I studied, a few topics were of great interest and truly opened my mind to new ideas I have not witnessed.  Nanostructures: Gecko Feet Inspired Adhesive      One concept mentioned in the lecture that influenced my understanding for this week was the technology of gecko inspires adhesive. Biomimicry is an interesting idea for using nature's efficient strategies to solve human-based problems which is what we are seeing in this gecko example. This concept also embeds art, science, and technology very well as it takes expert design, the knowledge of how it is used in nature, and the mechanics to build it so it functions properly. Hampshire, University of New, et al. “8 Amazing Examples of Biomimicry.” Treehugger, https://www.treehugger.com/amazing-examples-of-biom...

     Learning and exploring the concepts, ideas, and overall knowledge we know about our brain neurologically is such a fascinating topic to go about. This field has always been of great interest and now looking at both art and neuroscience is truly mind-opening. Considering how the brain has only been studied for a century, is mind-blowing and I definitely feel there is a lot more to learn. Only studying this for this much time, gives me a frightening feeling about what else can be uncovered but also anxious as this is a body part we all live with closely.  Exploring Dreams:      Freud and Jung were the first developers of the idea of dreams, and the conscious mind but interestingly became further and further apart from being friends over the years. Jung's idea on the collective unconscious is what influenced my understanding as I also believe it cannot be so negative but in fact, our brains, all have built-in creativity or "psychic archetype layer si...

 I was fortunate in attending the L*A*S*E*R event "Transition Regimes: Culture of Media Art 1" which had the guest speakers, Tanya Toft Ag and Mogens Jacobsen.  Medialab AAU Aalborg.  L * A * S * E * R Aalborg University DAY 1 . 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAsZv5HKN8. Medialab AAU Aalborg.  L * A * S * E * R Aalborg University DAY 1 . 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAsZv5HKN8. Tonya Toft Ag:      Tanya is a curator, researcher, writer, and lecturer who looks into the trajectories of media arts and urban change. In the event, she questioned many ideas and perspectives which truly influence and challenged my mindset as they were questions I would have not ever considered. She brings new definitions of what art and technology could look like with the human development aspect of urbanization. Not only that as our world is growing into the spectrum of smart, innovative, technological, rationalized futures, she believes we should also be c...

     In the lecture, Professor Vesna mentions how certain individuals will perceive the definition of bio and art differently. The definition I found most interesting was the one including animals and bioart and how the animals are used in this field along with the ethical implications for artists interfering with the genetic structure of these natural systems.      Joe Davis was certainly an interesting figure in our time but his development of ideas using biotech and art influenced my understanding of the week's topic. His format of thinking and perceiving the world truly is what I consider "thinking outside the box" as he tried to connect ideas that had the least connection.  NOVA PBS Official.  Scientist? Artist. Pirate! Who Is Joe Davis?  2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkZt00Qics.      One of these early experiments relates to the definition of biotech and art which includes animals as part of the equation. Not onl...