On May 3, 2016, I went to the lecture given by Anne Niemetz.
It was a really joyful and interesting event and I learnt a lot from it.
As an artist who focuses on wearable technology, interactive
installation ans audio-visual design, Anne is very adapt to the applications of
modern scientific devices and technologies. At most times, it’s hard for me to
understand an artist’s work and design since I am an engineering student, but
Anne’s work gives me sense of familiarity.
belt using Arduinos
In the lecture, she talked about beats. In physics class, I
learn that beats forms because of the sounds with difference frequencies are
played together. Sometimes we may hear beats from one audio source when we are in-between
two huge and concrete objects because of Doppler’s effect. It’s kind of excited
and fancy to hear the beats in an art creation. Anne showed us the clip of
audio she made with beats. The strong rhythm seemed to be in resonance with the
heart beat and gives us sense of magnificence. One thing that is impressive to
me is her usage of Arduinos when making a belt. I am an electrical engineering
student, so I know how important Arduinos are to electronic practices. In my
project for my major classes, I programmed them to control the motor at certain
circumstances, but I never thought they could be used for shining belt one day.
the Circadian Rhythm
As for Anne’s art pieces, I like the one called Circadian
Rhythm. She records the positions of sun at different times of the day and put
all picture together. We can see that the positions make a perfect sine wave.
It is the beauty of math and art. In one of her student’s work, the clothes on
model are cover with hexagons of different sizes. Each of hexagon has a stick
supporting the surface. When the power is on, the stick extends and contracts
at different times to make a wave on the body. The scene is a little bit weird
but attracting.
I highly recommend this lecture because it shows us the beauty
of the combination of art and science. In the future, we have to put what we
learnt into practices. The creativity is lying in every part of our life, not
only wearable technologies. And our goal is to use it to make our life better.
me at the lecture(kind of dark... 😂）
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