UCLA Art|Sci Gallery 5th Floor, CNSI | California Nanosystems Institute
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 21st | 5 - 7pm
LASER Symposium | 7 - 9pm
For my second event, I attended the LASER Symposium on May 21 at 7pm on the 5th floor of the California Nanosystems Institute. I have taken one class near the California Nanosystems Institute building on such campus but never been inside of it. It occurred to me that there is an entire art world in which I have no idea about, where they meet in small discrete places daily. This was a new scene for me and was a lot to take in.
The first part included a rather large art piece, Infinity Structures: Paradoxical Spaces by Robert Gero. Gero has done exhibitions both nationally and internationally and is a big name. It was right to left of where you entered in a dark room with moving light all over the structure. Robert Gero wanted to create art with a "stable exterior and an infinitely expanding interior" ("EXHIBITION.."). This structure was unique in its ability to capture the eye and keep its attention for some time. It incorporated construction and therefore math in order to build and produce this structure. Art cannot be separate from the mathematical world just as we studied early on in week 2. The connection between the two fields was clearly seen in this exhibition. The ambiance of the room also had something to do with that. The dark cool room made it peaceful, relaxing and with the quiet murmur of interpretation, a studious enviroment. This made for an altogether, memorable and enjoyable experience looking at art.
The other aspect I was not expecting was that they served food and drink throughout the showing as well. I never knew an art exhibition had receptions like that. The art world is small within itself. During the second half, the LASER Symposium, each artist had a five minute time frame to discuss some of there research and findings and way to get involved. There was about fifteen other artists who shared there stories and work. I am not around artists very much but they have a unique confidence about them due to the passion they exude about research. It was a social experience through technology because as they were talking they had a slide show showing visuals. One speech I remember was a guy and girl who studied this concept of "pink noise". This was noise that filters out information overload. So an example is when you play a bunch of youtube videos at once, this creates pink noise. There is both human pink noise and natural pink noise. They correlated an experiment with this phenomena of a traveling sauna. This sauna moves from city to city and allows people to enter a state of pink noise as a cleansing act with others. It forms a positive bond of intimacy among people or a safe zone. Overall, this event opened my eyes to the world of art and its many forms and avenues.
Resources
"EXHIBITION: Infinity Structures: Paradoxical Spaces by Robert Gero | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab." EXHIBITION: Infinity Structures: Paradoxical Spaces by Robert Gero | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2015. <http://artsci.ucla.edu/?q=events%2Fexhibition-infinity-structures-paradoxical-spaces-robert-gero>.
"Pink Noise." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 27 May 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise>.
The first part included a rather large art piece, Infinity Structures: Paradoxical Spaces by Robert Gero. Gero has done exhibitions both nationally and internationally and is a big name. It was right to left of where you entered in a dark room with moving light all over the structure. Robert Gero wanted to create art with a "stable exterior and an infinitely expanding interior" ("EXHIBITION.."). This structure was unique in its ability to capture the eye and keep its attention for some time. It incorporated construction and therefore math in order to build and produce this structure. Art cannot be separate from the mathematical world just as we studied early on in week 2. The connection between the two fields was clearly seen in this exhibition. The ambiance of the room also had something to do with that. The dark cool room made it peaceful, relaxing and with the quiet murmur of interpretation, a studious enviroment. This made for an altogether, memorable and enjoyable experience looking at art.
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