JakePulidoDesma9

The future of neuroscience and art have an endless amount of  possibilities. Advancements in technology are always being made and new discoveries create countless ways us humans come to understand and articulate what these findings can mean to us. In turn creating indefinite ways in which art can be made. A topic that interested me the most about this week's module, was the idea of sleeping and how our brains function while we sleep. Through professor Vesna's lesson, I learned that many of our dreams, 95% to be exact, are forgotten. The fact that we know very little is what I believe helps create space and a push for artists to wanna understand this process more and perhaps create their own perspectives through art on how this process may work. The intersection of neuroscience and art provides many ways we as humans can   unlock new forms of creativity, expression, and understanding. Well known artists like Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso have very popular works on art that ha...

  For my second event I attended Leonardo Da Vinci + Gravity on zoom. I found this event to be quite educational and insightful. My main reason for choosing this event was due to the fact that it was based off of Leonardo Da Vinci, an extremely talented and famous artist. Though it was through this zoom and with the help of the speakers of this event, Claire Farago and Matthew Landrus, I've come to learn that Leonardo was much more than a painter, but also a well rounded scholar and scientist. Sources from the museum of Boston, state that Da Vinci was also know for being renowned in the fields of  civil engineering, chemistry, geology, geometry, hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics, pyrotechnics, and zoology. I definitely would recommend others to attend this event, as it provides so much background on Da Vinci’s other passions and how that continues on and mixes within his own art work.  Overall it really was nothing short of interesting ...

  In this week’s module we learn about the intersections of Biotech and art, personally I found this topic to be the most interesting thus far, due to how controversial these subjects can be. Just as professor Vesna explains there are many ways artists create their works through this biotech lens, whether from working in the lab on a genetic level or simply capturing these moments through a camera. Defining Life By author Ellen Kerry, does a great job of exposing the reader to fresh and unique conflicts or situations that may arise from the combinations of biotech and art. A good example of this is when Kerry brings up the topic of intellectual property, stating that “increasing numbers of artists are producing new life-forms and cyborgs, what rights should accrue to these artist-inventors?” (Kerry). I found this to be extremely fascinating because moving forward, how do we as a society distinguish ownership with this evolving art form.  Artists like Eduardo Kac and Mel Chin h...