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Week 9: Space + Art

This week, I found the connection between Space and Art to be significantly more obvious than the topics that have been introduced in the past few weeks.  As mentioned in the lecture videos, throughout history, from the earliest civilizations all the way up until now, we as a human race have been intrigued and curious about space.  This includes the sky, the stars, the planets, and its mysterious and unknown nature.  The idea of the unknown is enough to motivate scientists to learn more, and also acts as a medium of inspiration for artists. 

      You can see the inspiration it has given artists in several different areas especially through the films and television shows that have been created from the pure imagination of what space, or even the future of the human race may look like.  In the Lecture part 6 video, Professor Vesna introduced examples such as Star Trek and The Jetsons, which at first glance seem to be unrelated because of the audiences they cater to. However, just analyzing these two shows tells us a lot about how producers used the scientific advances and predictions of the future to create forms of entertainment.  These artists took progressive scientific research and mixed it with their imaginative minds to create their rendition of


what they believed the future would look like.  These shows have major influence on popular culture, and how people have come to perceive concepts like living in space, futuristic inventions, as well as sparks imagination for what exists in the unknown.  These scientific advances through research done in institutions such as NASA only further our understanding of the vague concept of space, as well as provides a platform for artists to create.



References

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Calandrelli, Emily. "NASA Spacewalk Cut Short After Spacesuit Malfunction." TechCrunch. TechCrunch, 15 Jan. 2016. Web. 04 June 2017.

"The Jetsons (TV Series 1962–1963)." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 04 June 2017.

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