Desma 9 Blog Nick Scheidler

On Tuesday May 4th I attended the Hammer Museum in Westwood. The Hammer Museum is a spread out are with multiple exhibits for people to walk into and explore all the amazing artwork that the Hammer Museum displays. One of the first exhibits that I walked into was the Oliver Payne and Keiichi Tanaami exhibit. This exhibit displayed very interesting artwork that brought the visuals from popular video games and normal artwork. These paintings were very cool to see because they were not just your usual hand drawn pieces of art. Instead they displayed artwork from well-known video games like Spaceship Gunner. It showed the spaceship and also explosions and missiles that went along with artwork that was already displayed. There were numerous artworks that were similar, but they were all different from each other in a special way. Many of the artworks were depicting female figures, however some were of skeletons or animals and they all had some sort of video game visual to go along with thei...

Space and art, perhaps, is a combination of just about all the of the previous topics that we have covered in this class. It brings together technology, math, and other sciences that we have covered over the past ten weeks. Space has an infinite amount of range which makes it similar to nanoscience in the sense that we are on a very small scale compared to the rest of the universe. When talking about technology, we have made numerous technological advances that have allowed us as humans to get to some parts of space that we were not able to get to before. One of the interesting videos I saw this week was the power of 10 video. This video showed the viewers just how big the universe really is. Every 10 seconds we are 10 times farther than where we originally started in the video. This video is really interesting because it gives the audience a perspective on how big our universe is and how small we are as humans in relation to the universe. There is so much space in space that ou...