While visiting family in Northern
California, I went to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The Crocker was full of lots of different
types of art, and even the building is half a historic building and half modern
architecture.
One of my favorites was entitled KN-1725 by the American artist Andreas
Nottebohm. The piece was made from
aluminum, and as you viewed it from different angles, the dimensions appeared
to change drastically. This was supposed
to give the viewer a spiritual sense of infinity. As it turns out, the artist was inspired by
the science and exploration of the universe with regards to its origin, shape,
and fate. The piece almost reminded of
an optical illusion as you would move and continue to look at it, and it truly
did give a sense of infinity.
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| KN-1725 |
When I saw this next piece, I
immediately was reminded of the neuroscience section of this class! And as it turns out, the piece is from artist
Beverly Rayner’s collection on surveillance where she imagines surveillance
devices as living organisms that communicate with each other. This is just like neurons in the nervous
system communication with one another!
The “eyes” would be comparable to dendrites in a neuron because they are
both receiving information from the outside.
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| Beverly Rayner's piece. |
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