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Week 9 Space + Art

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In science classes before, I have learned the scientific notation, a method of representing numbers as the product of a number between 1 and 10 and a certain power of 10. However, it is the film Powers of Ten in this week’s lecture that gave me a more intuitive impression on how the perspective of viewing changes as the scale changes by multiplying 10. As the power of 10 goes up and the scale becomes larger, we can see how small we are relative to the universe we reside in and everything we care about is just small as dust. On the other hand, as we zoom in on the scale we can see the enormous number of atoms that compose cells and our bodies. Everything then becomes a complication built by precise physical laws. This worldview of comparing dimensions in terms of the power of 10 is also demonstrated in this week’s reading, the Powers of Ten Blog. In this blog, every number is expressed through the scientific notation and dimensions such as time and distances are compared accordingly.
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Event 3

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On April 27, I went to the solo exhibition “Is it just me, or have we not moved?” by Jonathan Moore. When the door of the exhibition opened, my first thought was that it did not look like an art exhibition at all. Audiences were asked to line up to enter a room set up like airport security check. There was one staff member at the entrance standing behind a desk asking for photo ID. I showed her my ID and she checked it for a few times with a very intense gaze. I felt a little uncomfortable but still proceeded as she instructed. The setup of the exhibition The entrance and the staff member checking IDs Inside the room was a setup very similar to an airport security check. At this point, the sound of the staff members shouting to each other and to the audiences became very clear and it made me anxious and nervous. Before going through the scanning gate, I put my bag in a baggage scanner and other stuff in a wired basket that was put in front of me very loudly and r
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