EVENT BLOG 1

The first event I attended was actually the "Made in LA" exhibit at the Hammer Museum.
This event showcased many works made by artists in Los Angeles, with many being emerging artists and content-makers.

A piece that stuck out as soon I was walked through the door was the piece by Samara Golden, entitled "Busts." Busts is a multi-media and medium project that involves photography, video, sculpture, sound, 3d printing, and to top it all of, it's an instillation piece. The viewer walks into a room of doll heads perched on a bleacher type desk structure. The piece immerses the viewer in an all surrounding experience and eventually, they too will be part of the piece. Viewers will be added to the doll collection as the exhibit continues and the project is shown more. 

 The other exhibit that interested me was the piece by Sara Rara entitled: "The Pollinators." This piece entranced me completely because it literally makes art out of science. The piece surrounds the viewer in a dark room that confines the space with benches in the shape of beehives in the middle. On the front wall is a video of the process of pollination. It is meant to show us that "humans perceive only a small fraction of the physical world."

"It is not a question of annihilating science, but of controlling it. Science is totally dependent upon philosophical opinions for all of its goals and methods, though it easily forgets this. 

—Friedrich Nietzsche"

To me, these two exhibit the theory of the "two cultures" and intermixing them and the above quote represents this. I found myself in these two exhibits for a minimum of 20 mins each. One literally takes science and uses the process as art. Something extremely scientific as pollination is also a beautiful process. The other utilizes the intermixing of mediums that normally wouldn't be put together. While it is not specifically scientific, I think it speaks to theory Snow talks about in his book when it comes to the two cultures.

LINKS:
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/-The-Two-Cultures--today-4882
http://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2014/#c4502
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://sarahrara.com/pollinators/
http://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2014/samara-golden/