Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:34 pm
A big picture reminder that the goal of our final project is to imagine what the photography of the future will be like by looking into the science labs - see what they do, and then to imagine how it may migrate into a camera tool, or artistic approach. Our approach to imagine presenting it at the UCSB Art Museum is a means to create a conceptual situation to achieve our research.
Our method is the process of exploring. The process is called "Play of the Imagination".
This past week the task has been to identify some specialized science research on campus. Next week you have to come up with a plan as to how this could function in a UCSB museum exhibition.
Today we discussed methods of translating something into art. The notes from the whiteboard are:
Advanced Vision ----> Translation process ------> Artistic Context
Research
Methods for making the Translation process:
. Use a metaphor, or story we are familiar with
. Visualize the research (on screens, etc)
. Recontexualize / Repurpose
. Transform - turn inside/out, change its function
. Reduce / simplify
. Combine / recombine in unexpected ways
. Demonstrate /explain
Here is an example. There is a Physics lab on campus focused on fluid patterns in convection: http://www.nls.physics.ucsb.edu/
(To see visual animations click on convection Patterns to get to videos and images: http://www.nls.physics.ucsb.edu/image_p ... tures.html)
This scientific research was transformed by an Arts graduate who explored this and proposed an art installation: The Well http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/acad ... index.html
Our method is the process of exploring. The process is called "Play of the Imagination".
This past week the task has been to identify some specialized science research on campus. Next week you have to come up with a plan as to how this could function in a UCSB museum exhibition.
Today we discussed methods of translating something into art. The notes from the whiteboard are:
Advanced Vision ----> Translation process ------> Artistic Context
Research
Methods for making the Translation process:
. Use a metaphor, or story we are familiar with
. Visualize the research (on screens, etc)
. Recontexualize / Repurpose
. Transform - turn inside/out, change its function
. Reduce / simplify
. Combine / recombine in unexpected ways
. Demonstrate /explain
Here is an example. There is a Physics lab on campus focused on fluid patterns in convection: http://www.nls.physics.ucsb.edu/
(To see visual animations click on convection Patterns to get to videos and images: http://www.nls.physics.ucsb.edu/image_p ... tures.html)
This scientific research was transformed by an Arts graduate who explored this and proposed an art installation: The Well http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/acad ... index.html