X-ray of the hand and wrist of Alexandra, Empress of Russia, 1898, H.H. Horne, Albumen print, Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 11 October 2008 – 4 January 2009

Greetings Art & Science Creators!

Attached you will find the worksheet handed out and discussed during today’s class session. Please use this to guide your thinking about your project throughout the term. It will likely also assist as you prepare your creative display draft presentation for Thursday.

A reminder that you will each have 5 minutes to share your in-process work on Thursday. This is a semi-formal presentation style that you should use to explain where your project and thinking are at this time. We will have lots of opportunity for feedback, questions, and the like. You can even consider how to develop such feedback loops into your presentation. You do not need to stand up in front of the entire class for this presentation unless that is your preferred style.

Some PDFs of course slides and other informational tools have been posted to our course site at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/course-documents/. You can find out more about the Brought to Light exhibit, get a copy of the DARC model pamphlet, and more. More about the Brought to Light exhibit can also be found at http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/332.

Remember that today’s presentation and discussion was much about considering assumptions we hold, whether they be historical, cultural, or personal, and we need to think about ways of audience engagement, education, and interaction with content and approach to display/exhibition.

See you Thursday!
Julie and Robert

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”-Albert Einstein

Greetings Art & Science Researchers!

Today we took in quite a bit of information about potential sources for supporting research information, including extensive searching of imagery. Mar, the Art Librarian who joined us today, has provided this excellent resource page (which she will likely add a few additional items to as well) just for our class: http://library.uoregon.edu/guides/art/aad199-ams. She is also available to meet with you one-on-one to assist with your individual project. Just contact her at margp@uoregon.edu.

Reminders for next week:

Monday: 1-2p.m. Join the class at Pegasus Pizza to socialize. Robert & I are buying.

Tuesday: Arrive to class prepared to discuss what stories your particular artist explores.

Thursday: Present creative display 1, your draft display/process of research visualization. Show us your initial brainstorming, sketching, planning, developing ideas for display of research about your selected artist, science, and problem for the term. Bring all items to class that you need to share.

Due week 6: Report 3

Always: Continue working on research of sources, ideas, etc. regarding your artist for your project.

Best,

Julie & Robert

The power of art and images can be cute and fun!

And note how art and the artistic voice and narrative can have meanings maybe not totally obvious on the surface, and yes can be still fun but also can be serious reflections on who we are too!

Greetings, Art & Science Lovers!

I hope you had as much fun listening to Richard Taylor speak as Robert & I did this morning. What an interesting trajectory his life has taken all due to an interest in Jackson Pollock that developed at the age of 10! His continuing research and practice are based on this 40 year interest. You can learn more here: http://pages.uoregon.edu/msiuo/taylor/human_response/Pollock%28FractalExpressionism2003%29.pdf and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnj-UoAKnUQ. For those of you unable to join us at class today, I particularly recommend watching his TedTalk via the YouTube link.

A reminder to complete your next Journal entry (#9) that addresses what you learning from Dr. Taylor and from visiting the CAMCOR labs. In particular, talk about how you will/are considering applying these ideas and experiences to your term project. Due no later than 10a.m. Thursday.

For Thursday, please remember to bring your laptops/tablets for our session with Mar Gonzales-Palacio, Art Librarian, regarding researching artists and art. It will be a very informative session!

Also, another reminder to continue developing and creating ideas for display of research (Creative Display 1). Working a little bit on this each day will take you far toward a strong mockup of your intended creative work for the rest of the term. Draft Due and Presented in Week 5.

Finally, there’s an upcoming event that may be of interest to some of you (or all of you since it offers FREE LUNCH!). The basic information is here:

YOUR PATH TO AN ARTS JOB
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 11:30 – 1:00 P.M.
LAWRENCE HALL 249

Best,
Julie & Robert

Blue poles [Number 11, 1952] 1952 , Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956), enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, OT 367, 212.1 (h) x 488.9 (w) cm, Purchased 1973, NGA 1974.264
© Jackson Pollock. Licensed by ARS & VISCOPY, Australia

Greetings, Art & Science Lovers!

What a great session with Lisa Freinkel yesterday. I think each of you took away something of value and interest to your own awareness of self, understanding of the importance of mindfulness, tools for working toward mindfulness, or a way in which to develop your project or understand research bias. I look forward to hearing what you took away as you write Journal 7 (your response to Lisa’s visit). Learn more about upcoming events on the UO campus related to mindfulness at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/guest-speaker-resources/professor-lisa-freinkel/

A reminder that this coming Tuesday, January 27, we will hear from Richard Taylor, Physics professor, and tour the CAMCOR labs. Let’s meet in the courtyard between Huestis and Deschutes halls and across from Carson (see map.uoregon.edu). This should be a great session to hear more about fractals, interconnections between the arts and sciences, and Jackson Pollock’s work. To prepare for this session, please read and respond (Journal 8) to the article by deCosta at http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/feminist-anti-mooc/da-costa-reaching-the-limit

I have attempted to send you a link to a Google Calendar for our course that will outline upcoming due dates/course schedule and how it looks more visually than the textual example on the course site provides. It currently lists activities through next week only. If this the calendar is not working/functioning properly, please let us know.

Finally, we want to let you know about an upcoming event that may be of interest to some of you (or all of you since it offers FREE lunch!). A flyer is attached here (Your Path to an Arts Job flyer) and the basic information is here:

Your Path to an Arts Job
Friday, January 30, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall 249

Best,
Julie & Robert