Emily Leung DESMA 9

I attended Chelly Jin's Hypnagogia  exhibition, which attracted me as it was about the "liminal state between consciousness and dream" (Jin) This event included a track being played throughout of Jin reading her dreams from the past six years and lights that were created by her consciousness via brainwave sensors, which displays the idea of hypnagogic duality. Inside the exhibition Posted along the walls were dreams Jin had and upon further analysis, I saw that the margins of the work had semantic dimensions and scores of each of those semantic dimensions. In one of my communications courses, we worked with a program called LIWC that was a word processor that would give scores to each semantic dimension based on how much your work expressed certain emotions. One of Jin's dreams. Notice in the margins the semantic dimensions! This exhibition is a prime example of what Stephen Wilson said in his paper " Myths and Confusion in Thinking About Art/Science/Te

I attended the Media Art Nexus talk in Broad Art Center with speakers Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez. There, I got a great understanding of some of the projects they were working on which had a lot of overlapping ideas with this class. This presentation will help me in forming final project ideas through expanding my horizons on different areas of the topics we covered in class, such as the topic of emotions and art which relate to the neuroscience section of the course. I found the work of Chavez to be quite fascinating. He was involved in a lot of 3D modeling projects, and when his powerpoint showed models of the human head, I immediately thought of the Visible Human Project from the week on MedTech and Art. Even though Chavez doesn't have a background in any medical field, his skills and creativity built 3D models that allow society to advance our understanding of the human body. Chavez's work with 3D modeling Chavez also discussed a project he worked on where he built