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  The materials that most interested me this week were Dr. James K. Gimzewski’s YouTube videos entitled Nanotechnology for artists (1). My favorite part was the images shown below of shapes made by Don Eigler using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy which uses a needle whose tip measures about one hundredth of an atomic diameter. The needle rasters across surfaces to make images, in a similar process to the one used in a cathode ray tube, the original type of television (2). Patterns created using the Scanning Tunnel Microscope Even more powerful is the Atomic Force Microscope which is able to image molecules in a way that hadn’t been achieved before with the Scanning Tunnel Microscope (2). Today there are thousands of nanotechnology products on the market and many of them are invisible.  Atomic Force Microscopy Nanoparticles are sized between 100 and 1 nanometers, and they have existed for a long time. In Roman times they were used to make pottery out of gold that looks one c...

The second event I have chosen to attend is the online event, Lecture by Ellen K. Levy . Ellen K. Levy is an American multimedia artist and scholar known for exploring art, science, and technology interrelationships since the early 1980s (1). She has conducted art sci research on D’Arcy Thompson. D’Arcy Thompson wrote a famous book O n Growth and Form , which is “an easy introduction to the study of organic Form”. (2) D'Arcy Thompson On Growth and Form So far in this course, it has seemed to me as though the science culture has had the advantage of finding solutions and cures, and that the art culture has been trying to catch up by offering meaning in art instead of mere aesthetic pleasure. This event by Ellen Levy has shown me that the art culture has a different advantage over the science culture: Art has more truth than does Science. Ellen Levy D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influence in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms Science has proven over ...

Carl Jung developed a theory of the unconscious employing the concept of the archetype. Archetypes are the psychic innate dispositions to experience that constitute the structure of the collective unconscious. Archetypes are found in all cultures, and in dreams and visions. Every human being is endowed with the psychic archetype layer from his or her birth (1). Humans have always had archetypes, but according to Jung “[m]odern man has lost all the metaphysical certainties of his medieval brother” having lost touch with religion (2 ). Victoria Vesna Week 7 Lecture, Part 2 Carl Jung also argued that the unconscious could be a source of creativity (1). This is evident in a lot of art that is dreamlike and inspired by dreams. One of my favorite artists who paints dream-like scenes is Salvador Dali. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science, and his closest personal relationships (3). Salvador Dali The Hallucinogenic Toreador One way to experien...