Follow up from Day 5

Julie Voelker-Morris

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

Event Specialist Achievement (2016 version)

Robert Voelker-Morris

Hi, below is information about the newly added ‘Event Specialist Achievement’.

This new achievement is to attend at least 2 outside of class academic events (talks, performances, etc.) and write up a “reflection” reaction posting about your event attendance in your blog Journal.  If you choose to write up a Journal entry for this achievement be sure to include “Event Specialist” in the title so we can easily identify it.

Your Journal Postings will need to answer the following questions:

1.  What was the talk’s/event’s main focus (what was it about)?  What were 3 main takeaways you took away from the talk/event?

2.  What did you think about the talk/event?  In what ways did it personally interest you?  If it did not interest you, what would have made it better (more interesting)?

3.  In what ways did the talk/event connect to the seminar’s content (readings, presentations within the seminar’s meeting time, guest speakers, etc.)?

4.  Were there any aspects to the talk/event you think will apply to your seminar final project/creative display?

 

Again this “Achievement” will be a seminar “Event Specialist.”

Additionally here are some of the resource links for finding events:

UO Event Calendar: http://calendar.uoregon.edu/

Architecture and Allied Arts (A&AA) Event Listings:https://aaa.uoregon.edu/events

UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History Events Calendar: http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/education-and-events/calendar

UO Museum of Art Events Calendar: http://jsma.uoregon.edu/calendar/month

Eugene Register-Guard Event Listings: http://go.registerguard.com/entertainment/category/events

Some possible events to attend (just suggestions!):

Science Factory Nikon Small World: Photo Contest exhibit: http://www.sciencefactory.org/exhibits/nikon-small-world-photo-contest

Science Factory Exploration Dome: http://www.sciencefactory.org/exploration-dome

Let us know if you have any questions about any of this!

Best,

Robert and Julie

Follow-up from Day 4/Prep for Week 5

Julie Voelker-Morris

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:

Failure Achievement Write Up Guidelines:
For those of you working on the “failure achievement”, here are guidelines for how to develop your journal postings about such activities:
Post within existing assigned Journal entries about your creative and research process and/or post a new Journal entry specifically addressing an element of “failure” you have dealt with in this seminar.  For new postings be sure to identify that the posting is addressing the ‘Failure’ Achievement by addressing the following:
1.  What was the “failure”?
2.  How will you learn from this failure and build upon it for the next stages of your creative and/or research process in the seminar?
3.  Reference the BBC article “Viewpoint: How creativity is helped by failure” and how the writing connects to your specific failure and/or your learning from that failure (article link: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34775411?post_id=10207428879533532_10207428879453530)
4.  (If possible answer this, but may not fully apply to the failure you are addressing so #4 is optional)  Do you have examples of how this failure has informed experiences you are having outside of the seminar; such as, did what you learn from this failure help you in another class, work, your approach to a project, your mindset about the failure, etc.?   Or did you have a “failure” learning experience outside of the seminar that is informing ways in which you are approaching your work in this seminar?  (Thank you, Erin Meyer, for this idea!)

Reminders for Next Week (Week 3)

1. Bring your 9 Dots exercise to Tuesday’s class. We will be using this activity as part of our work with our guest speaker, Lisa Freinkel.
2. Finalize Report 2, your proposed artist/science intersection to explore throughout the term.  Remember to pick someone/something that HIGHLY interests you and will keep your interest, even passion, throughout the term. Due next Thursday.
3 & 4. Read the article in your course packet by Marshall & D’Adamo’s “Art practice as research in the classroom” and post your reading response about ideas presented in the article.
As always, please let us know questions you have.  Enjoy your weekend.

Follow-up from Day 3 & Preparing for Thursday

Julie Voelker-Morris

Greetings AAD 199: Art Meets Science students.

Here is an overview from class today as well as things to prepare for class in the near future. Please let us know if you have questions.

Monty Python explains the Scientific Method:

Ask Questions

Form Hypotheses

State a Hypothesis

Collect and Test Data

Make Conclusions

 

The UO’s Science Literacy Program (UO SLP)is a great resource for you during your time on this campus. UO SLP offers General Education courses for non-science majors that employ active, inquiry-based teaching methods to improve creative and critical reasoning.  Note that upcoming classes include topics of policy and biology, animal behavior, cancer biology, anatomy of sex, and astronomy among other topics.

Thanks to Elly Vandegrift and Julie Mueller for joining our class today to discuss questions such as “what counts as an image” and “why do scientists create images?” I think it’s interesting that many comments noted a need for emotional connection or reaction as well as a sense of composition, meaning, and information for any “work” to count as an image. Most agreed that we are visual beings so images in many forms (photographs, charts, rubrics, graphs, etc.) help us to make sense of the world, see trends, and convey ideas and data. We will continue exploring these ideas throughout the term. Keep practicing your Science Pictionary skills to stay sharp in the ways you connect and understand language, meaning, and visual imagery.

 

Finally a reminder about upcoming assignments:

  1. Read online article: Palmer, C. (2013, June 21). The art of science: Princeton scientists and engineers create a stunning collection of scientific images better suited for a gallery than a lab meeting. Retrieved from:
    http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36123/title/The-Art-o
    f-Science/
  2. Write & Post Reading Response to Palmer (Journal #3) on your personal UO Blog journal page. What interested you and makes you want to know about similar work at the UO? What questions do you have or what do you want to learn more about? Post to your UO Blog no later than 10a.m., Thursday, January 14th.  Dean Walton will be joining us to talk about the UO exhibit, Scientia venustior.
  3. Begin attempting the 9 Dots exercise handed out today.  This will be due next Tuesday, January 19 as part of a hands-on activities and discussion with our guest.
  4. Finally, remember to begin Report 2.  We will talk about this more in class on Thursday.  This report will finalize artist selection for term project. Use the worksheet (handed out on Thursday) as a guide to explore why you are selecting this artist. Write a proposal (Report 2) for what you will explore about this artist/scientific topic during the term. See details on assignment worksheet. Due next week, Thursday, January 21st.

Day 3: Good resources for how to post to UO Blogs

Julie Voelker-Morris

Hi everyone,

Yes, still feeling bad that we did not fully maximize our work session today with the surprise technical difficulties that occurred. Again, we will have other hands-on sessions to really start thinking about designing unique and artistic project sites.

In the meantime, start working on  Journal Postings for your UO Blogs site. Remember, Journal #3 is due before class (by 10a.m.) on Thursday.  Journals #1 & 2 (completed by hand earlier) are due on the blog site by Friday, 10a.m.

Here are some good resources to help you get started with your blogs and if you run into questions along the way:

  • Adding Media (VERY important!  Be creative and think about multi-media for your postings, remember these Journal Postings can help achieve multiple different ‘Achievements’): http://help.edublogs.org/user-guide/media/

Additionally, you can use the UO IT Blog help pages at https://it.uoregon.edu/blogs/generalhelp.

AND if you get stuck please feel free to email us. We would rather assist you than not know about the problem.

Again be creative and have fun with this postings, this is a visual/image based class, and as has been noted in class we are a visual culture, so post visual resources that help make your postings even stronger!

Best,

Robert & Julie