Space and Art

This week’s topic is Space and Art. It is quite easy for me to understand the relationship between space and art comparing to other topics that we have discussed before.  Many creative ideas in scientific novels and movies are entertained by space scientists while science knowledge allow artist to produce more imaginative artworks. For examples, alien is a topic that scientists and artists are both working on. Artists use their great imaginations to produce scientific novels and movies. People must be very familiar with the following movie names, E.T, Man in Black, Star Wars, etc. In the movie E.T, it tells a story that a boy called Elliott and his brother help the extraterrestrial go back to home. 

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial>

On the other hand, inspired by these great imaginations, scientists have been working on this topic for years. NASA has a very famous program called NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. It has a variety of goals. Among all the goals, the most important goal is to "determine whether life ever  arose on Mars"(NASA Mars Science Laboratory ). The rover Curiousty has proved that liquid water once existed on Mars and taken multiple pictures that show the possibility of aliens. With these evidences, Artists have more scientific knowledge to base on and create more stories that are imaginative but also realistic. 

Are these aliens???????

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/aliens-on-mars-photos_n_4303447.html>

Another interesting topic that interest both scientists and artists is gravity. Because of aerospace science, artists start to notice that the gravity effects. For example, “Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity” held by EMPAC is an exhibition “in which contemporary artists explore – and on occasion recreate – the condition of weightlessness on earth.” Instead of traditional artwork that follows the rule of gravity, all artworks on this exhibition violate the gravity law on earth and bring people to a weightless world. This idea is arose by aerospace engineering. Another famous non-gravity work is made by  German artist Cornelia Konrads. Her work is based on weightlessness and focuses on objects like logs, fences, and doorways.

<http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/04/gravity-defying-land-art-by-cornelia-konrads/>

From the examples above, people can see that how art and space are contributing to each other. This topic, space and art, is a very good ending point for this quarter's study. Just like Professor Vesna said in the lecture, it combines all previous topic into one lecture. Aerospace is a very complicated topic which needs knowledge from Nanotech, Neuroscience, Math,etc. People should work more on this topic and contribute to society. 

Works Cited

“Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity at EMPAC.” Art & Education. N.p.. Web. 30 Nov 2013. <http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/dancing-on-the-ceiling-art-zero-gravity-at-empac/>.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . Wikipedia. 28 Nov. 2013. Web. 30 Nov. 2013

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial>

"Gravity-Defying Land Art by Cornelia Konrads" Colossal. 24 April. 2013. Web. 30 Nov. 2013
<http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/04/gravity-defying-land-art-by-cornelia-konrads/>

"Mars Science Laboratory." NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2013

<http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/science/goals/>

Vesna, Victoria, Video Intro, Youtube. 26 March 2012. Web. 30 Nov. 2013

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzN08A6UBoo#t=12>