Hello all,

It was great to see so many of you for pizza at Pegasus last night.  We enjoyed our time with you finding out about other interests in your lives, what types of flavors you like on your pizzas, where you are from and where you hope to go. It was nice to see many of you connecting in new ways with one another. It wasn’t quite like this, but you get the idea:

Here is some feedback from yesterday’s midterm presentations that we think apply to everyone’s project at this time.   Though each project is at a different stage, these areas of improvement and refinement are important to each one. Consider where your project is and how you can apply these categories to your work at this point in time.

*Return to and apply the FutureLab chart re: scientific, artistic, and social activity.  How does mapping this help establish the central core of your project? How does it help you define what science you are exploring, the art you are exploring, and the social application of the project?  This can be tough to define but is important to the work you are developing.

*Define what you want to learn through this project, whatever approach you take.  How can you share this learning goal in a clearly defined purpose statement?

*Make a firm decision about what you are doing with this project and run with it. While running, have fun! And don’t be afraid to get muddy in the process.

* Make a timeline/schedule for yourself between now and the final presentations during week 10. Use a backwards design style by looking at where you need to be and defining the steps along the way that you need to get there.

*How do you state the core idea/story of your project in a single sentence? A title for the project?

*How will your project inspire/attract others to participate with the project and/or to make a difference in the world?

* How are you transferring your project to the blogosphere to share the work with a larger public and for a longer length of time?

*Consider mapping out where your ideas started and how they have progressed as a way to help refine and define your project more specifically and accurately.

Remember the following for Tuesday, February 9:

Journal 11: This journal entry is your response to what you learned about your project following the presentation during class on Thursday.  What did you learn about your project through the peer responses you received? What are your project’s strengths? What are its weaknesses?  What are opportunities you can build upon? What may be threatening to or risking the best outcomes for the project at this time?

Journal 12: Reading Response to the chapter we are reading on Scientific Looking from the chapter in Sturken & Cartwright’s book, Practices of Looking. What are key points of the article?  What is confusing you or what do you want to know more about or discuss with others? What questions does this chapter raise for you?

And then, this coming Thursday, February 11, Report 3 is due. This is the annotated bibliography assigned.  See the Report 3 outline on the blog site for further details.

Greetings, Everyone.

Thanks for your strong engagement with the class session today.  I think the Brought to Light exhibit is an excellent example of how to read cultural and historical narratives/stories through the visuals, images, and artistic creations of science.  I hope you got a sense of ways in which time, duration, perception, fragmentation, unity, wholeness, and individuality are all represented and depicted within the images.

Brought to Light: Photography & the Invisible exhibit catalog cover, SFMOMA

How do such cultural moments and concerns assist in changing the way others see the world?  What other technologies have and are changing cultures of looking, objects and ways of understanding, etc.? What are the personal, compositional, and other aspects of works that help us understand the stories/narratives of a given era or of our own context and aesthetic?

Chameleon Christatus

Regarding your own work, what does your work reveal or how is it relevant personally, culturally, aesthetically and scientifically? Are you/is your project concerned with stewardship or sustainability of natural resources, access to clean water, medical longevity and physical health, mental health and psychological care, access to well paying  and meaningful employment; access nutritious foods, climate change, understanding brain-body connections, etc.?

These are the types of questions we’re hoping that you explore in your project for the term. Remember on Thursday to bring your sketches, mockups, samplings, flow charts, or other examples and ways in which you are considering what you will create and do with the project during this particular term. Be ready to speak about your works with as much specificity as you can while also recognizing that this is the middle of your process and you have questions about it that you would like peer feedback about. This will all assist with further refinement of the focus and clarity of your project.

Remember that student projects from last year (2015) are available for you to review and get ideas for approaches they took.  Those projects are linked here: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/student-sites/.

Molecular Gastronomy by Christina

Colin Hartman, Scarf Hat project 2015

Hurricane Word Cloud, Rachel Hanks, 2015

Robert and I particularly recommend the following three projects:  Hurricanes: The Art, the Science, and the In-between; Art in Virtual Reality; What is Love?; and Molecular Gastronomy: Scientific art in Culinary;

A new article, “The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken“, from The Chronicle of Higher Education to think about cultural contexts and science.

Word Science Festival

You may also be interested in the World Festival of Science (http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/) and The Story Behind the Science (http://www.storybehindthescience.org/index.html).

Pizza….. Don’t forget: Pizza on Thursday!  We will send details via email.

As always, please let Robert and I know of questions you have.

Best,
Julie

Hi all,

A good session today.  I hope this was helpful in practicing how to find a variety of sources and consider their usefulness your projects.  The ability to find relevant, accurate, well-resourced information, theoretical content, and imagery is key to building a strong project this term (and with any research project you present).

Keep working toward how you will present your project for public display and public audience.  What is the nugget of the social or environmental problem you want to examine in the artist’s work? How is that relevant to other people and the world we live in? How does the science help in understanding the artist’s approach as well as the significance to the world?

See also this UO Libraries resource section for “Getting Started with Research.”

Reminders of deadlines:

***Journal #10 (by Tuesday of Wk5): Post some quick notes about the types of search terms you used today — as well as those you think you should try — to search for articles, books, etc. about the science behind your project, the artist, etc.  Don’t forget, you may even want to contact the artist or a scientist directly!

***Creative Display 1 (due and presented Thursday, Feb. 4) — first draft(s) of the research visualization you are developing for the project. Remember, if you haven’t already spent 4-5 hours on the project, you need to bring that focused energy/time to this stage of the process now. See details at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/assignment-resources/creative-display-1/

***Report 3/Annotated Bibliography (due Thursday, Feb. 11) See: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/assignment-resources/report-3/

**We’ll have more detailed responses to Report 2 back to you in the next few days.

**Pizza party Thursday!   Details will be forthcoming in an email.

As always, let us know if you have questions.

Thanks,
Julie

Video Resources:

Serious Versions for Your Reference:

Four Search Strategies for Library Research

Developing a Search Strategy

Not so serious version!

And the don’t worry about being too weird with your research video!

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

Hello Everyone!

What an adventure with Dean Walton today from 3D printing to informational search methods to artistic exhibition of scientific images in the Scientia Venustior exhibit. We hope you were able to take away some basic ideas about producing exhibits as well as knowledge of using UO library databases to find strong peer-reviewed sources for your proposal in Report 2 due next Thursday.  Also, don’t forget that you have to access FREE 3D printing and campus Makerspace (laser cutters, foam cutters, and infrared cameras, oh my!) when it becomes available.

Pop Culture Reference for the Day:

Reminders for Next Week (Week 3)