EVENT BLOG 2

The 2nd event I ended up going to see was at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire, next to LACMA. The exhibition was called "Come In! S,M,L,XLA." The show essentially played on the human sense of scale and how scale affects our perceptions. This reminded me of nano-technology in a big way. Nano-technology works at a scale that is incomprehensible to our eyes.  This exhibit was also very big on "Math and Science" as well. All of the pieces uses very calculated processes to determine the shape, form, and color of the piece itself. The pieces also took inspiration form scientific crystalline structures as well as atomic bond structures as inspiration for form.

One such project was a piece by Jae Won Cho entitled: "Mesh." Mesh is described as a "modular block that can connect infinitely to make a structure that is organic. Mesh is comprised through a systematic process, producing a crystalline structure."

One other such project was called "In Turn." In turn is a geometrical interpretation of the game chess. Described as "a chess set that manifests its pieces in two ways: as the lines and curves indicating contours or cross sections of the chess pieces and as the typical imaginary curves of geometric unfolding." 

I said in my previous blog post that the subject of math and science is foreign to me and I don't exactly understand or comprehend how it's done. But seeing this exhibit gave me a great sense of appreciation for artists that do practice and manipulate numbers, formulas, and geometry to make great aesthetically pleasing and conceptually profound work.

LINKS:

http://books.google.com/books?id=vBISE7equQ4C&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=crystalline+structure+art&source=bl&ots=6mCpifNIGx&sig=9IVVLrIGO3PcngRcW8kgHAtkKrM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UQnfU8qlHo32oASx_IHwBw&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=crystalline%20structure%20art&f=false

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/Math_and_Art.htm

http://blogs.kcrw.com/dna/dna-design-pick-jae-won-chos-t-shelf

http://www.maxispina.com/home.php/