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For Event #3, I virtually attended Claudia Schnugg’s Color, Light, Motion presentation. Color, Light, Motion is described as an “online series featuring artists and scholars in dialogue about artworks from the Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts. I have previously seen Claudia Schnugg and her work in the Cosmological Events panel and enjoyed learning about her work and the perspective she brings to artscience culture. I found the contents of Color, Light, Motion, to be more broad in concept than the Cosmological Events series, but very fascinating nonetheless.  One of the artworks that I found most interesting was a light exhibit that tracks space satellite orbits around earth and projects a light for each one, accounting speed and velocity. This is a twenty minute experience and by the end there is an entire light spectacle, which is beautiful to see. This really reminded me of the content of week 9 space and art, and I thought it was a very beautiful and creative way ...

    For the last module of the quarter we looked at the intersection of space and art, the “final frontier”. What immediately caught my eye in this module was the video on the Powers of Ten. It is so incredible to see how tiny we are in the grand scheme of the universe, but also how grand we are on a cellular level. It was interesting to view the video and go from feeling so small to so not-small, as if we are mini galaxies ourselves. It was particularly interesting to note how the visual depictions in the powers of ten portrayed periods of relative inactivity followed by activity, almost like an artistic pattern. I think the video itself can be seen as an artistic expression of the natural world, space and cellular alike.       Lectures 3 and 4 in particular gave a great history lesson on the space race and mankind’s space curiosity. I have definitely heard more of the positive accomplishments of space exploration, so I was saddened to learn about Lai...