WEEK 9

Space and Art
I first read the intro quote by Benoit Mandelbro, "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line" and my immediate thoughts were in agreeance that not many things in this world take perfect shape and that many things are unique. This quote is a good beginning for thinking about space and art ideas intersecting. Space is not perfect and there are trillions of things we still do not know. Space is the unknown just like art. Art takes the form of many different shapes and sizes and we aren't sure what will happen next. A man named, Jeff Foust, wrote an article, "When space and Art Intersect", that agreed that art in its many diverse forms can "provide an emotional connection difficult to duplicate elsewhere." In other words, art can help people better understand space and its relative size and perspectives. This is why our last week's material with space has the best connection to art. Both subjects are abstract and offer many different prospectives.

Space research widely effects art concepts. We can see this especially in the Powers of Ten. It forces us to change our prospective. The Powers of Ten helps us understand how big our universe is relative to us. The film, Powers of Ten is a prime example of the cohesion of space and art. Artists worked to depict the beauty but also the size of space. But why does the size of space matter?

To us as individuals it doesn't take as great of an effect but to us as a world it has great effects. It is important we understand just how big this universe is to understand just how small we are. Powers of Ten transports you from the widest scope of our world to the smallest with the inside of an atom. It takes you through the multitude of prospectives of our world. Things look very different from up above. Our lives as individuals all the sudden become very small. This is an important lesson in that sometimes we might just need a change of perspective to realize our problems might not be as great as we think and that there is a lot more out there to think about. 

Humans as a race struggle sometimes to see the bigger picture. Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Mathematics, and robots are all used alongside art in space. So as Professor Vesna said, "It is the place where it all comes together"(Space Intro Video). Ever since the 1500s when Copernicus published the first model of our solar system that incorporated mathematics, to the end of World War 2 which resulted in the creation of an ICBM, all the way to the space race which in some extent is going today because every country is trying to create the best technology in space, weaponry, and medicine, all of the topics we have learned about are incorporated in Space and have seen major paradigm shifts. In the events above we have shifted from religious standpoints to using science to reason with the universe. Then shifted again when instead of using space as a place to discover new phenomenons about our world we began using it as a place to weaponize our world and to compete with othere countries for power. All the topics we have discussed, from nanotech and now to space, with the help of artists has evolved technology in our world immensely. This is especially true with nuclear weapons, medicine, and space technology. 

Sources
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7.2009, Jeff FoustTuesday September 8, and Jeff Foust (jeff@thespacereview.com) Is the Editor and Publisher of The Space Review. He Also Operates the Spacetoday.net Web Site and the Space Politics and Personal Spaceflight Weblogs. Views and Opinions Expressed in This Article Are Those of the Auth. "When Space and Art Intersect." The Space Review: When Space and Art Intersect. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2017. <http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1460/1>.
8.Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. Space Intro Video. University of California, Los Angeles, May 29, 2017-June 04, 2017.
9.Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. Space pt 1 Video. University of California, Los Angeles, May 29, 2017-June 04, 2017.
10.Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. Space pt 2 Video. University of California, Los Angeles, May 29, 2017-June 04, 2017.