Hello Art/Science fans,

Here’s a bit of follow-up from today’s class and heads up for Thursday:

I’m very pleased that Lisa Freinkel was able to join us today.  I thought she did an excellent job bringing together our ways of thinking, observing, perceiving, and approaches the sciences and the arts through the types of exercises she led us through.

• What are your own assumptions and biases about the world?  Specific to art? To science? to raisins?
• When are you willing to suspend judgment in order to find out more?  When do you constrict or limit yourself because of uncertainty or even of a feeling like you “already know this”?
• How are you open to learning more about what was there all along but wasn’t visible?

These are questions we will continue to work with throughout the course as well as throughout your academic careers here at the UO.

To learn more about Lisa, sign up for her Mindfulness based stress reduction course, or Magic Eye activities, etc., please visit her page on our “Guest Resources” page on the course blog: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/guest-speakers/winter-2016/professor-lisa-freinkel/

Reminders for Thursday since there are a number of assignments converging that day:

Journal 5: Reflection on today’s session: a) what is something new to you/that you learned; b) what is something from the session that you might apply to your term project; c) what is something from the session that you will apply to your life? (Note: this is the reflection we started in class today so just make sure you have it fully posted by Thursday’s class time.)

Journal 6: Read and respond to this interrelated writing that is on multiple web pages. See here: http://64.13.255.16/articles/designing_for_the_web/ and here: http://64.13.255.16/articles/principles_and_elements_of_design/. There are also two previous pages further outlining principles and elements of design that may interest you.

Report 2 DUE.  See handout and/or course blog for information about this paper.

Bring your laptops for in-class workshop

Let us know if you have questions.  See you Thursday.
Julie