Event 2


On May 10th 2018, I went to LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS (LASER) presentation by ARIEL LEVI SIMONS, KELLY NIPPER, JOHN HOOD, and MARU GARCÍA. LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations.
 
This event helped me understand the more about the biotech + art ideas. When Maru Garcia, Design Media Arts MFA Graduate Student, did her presentation, she showed us very weird looking fluorescent object and bacteria genetic DNA colorful art piece. This was relevant to week 6: biotech + art because Eduardo Kac’s GFP bunny was injecting micro genes from fluorescent jellyfish to bunny to make them light under the dark. Eduardo’s idea of making fluorescent bunny is relevant to artistic work because nowadays there are many glow in the dark products. I think those items are very cool and useful because in the dark, with the glow-in-the-dark item, you can make party look fancier and found people very easily.

After looking at the picture above, I was quite amazed that how people can play with science and make it look like an artistic work. The colors and patterns were very balanced and splendid. Now that people can make science work artistic work. Just as robots in the movie became practical in real life, I’m hoping that these biology technologies can become more practical to people’s lives and most importantly save many lives.

I would recommend this event to our DESMA 9 classmates because not only you learn about science + artistic work, but also you learn about how Artificial light at night (ALAN) effects light pollution in coastal ecosystems. Ecologists face challenges such as measuring light accurately and assessing how multiple species behave in response. But early results suggest that light at night is exerting pervasive, long-term stress on ecosystems, from coasts to farmland to urban waterways, many of which are already suffering from other, more well-known forms of pollution. People, including myself, nowadays know the problems of excess of CO2 production; however, I did now know the problem of how ALAN effects our ecosystems. Effects of light pollution on the health of wild animals and threaten the 30% of vertebrates and 60% of invertebrates that are nocturnal and exquisitely sensitive to light.


After attending this event, for my next midterm or project, I want to focus more on light system. Since I am an electrical engineering major, I want to combine electric, light, and art together.



                                                            Work Cited

“ALAN Official Website.” ALAN Official Website, www.artificiallightatnight.org/.

“GFP Bunny.” Stretcher, www.stretcher.org/features/edwardo_kac_flunks_the_rabbit_test/.
Irwin, Aisling. “The Dark Side of Light: How Artificial Lighting Is Harming the Natural World.”Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 16 Jan. 2018, www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00665-7.

“LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS (LASER).” COLLECTIVE BREAD DIARIES: A TASTE OF PROTEST | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab, artsci.ucla.edu/node/1387.

 Raap, Thomas, et al. Advances in Pediatrics., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2018, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5815018/.

Vesna, Victoria. "BioArt Pt. 1." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 13 May 2018. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUENH6GLzXY&list=PL9DBF43664EAC8BC7&index=13>.

Vesna, Victoria. "BioArt Pt. 3." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 13 May 2018.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpD3np1S2g&list=PL9DBF43664EAC8BC7&index=11>.

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