overview

California Nanosystems Institute
in collaboration with UCLA Design | Media Arts
Art | Science Lab

July 7 - July 18, 2008

Art Science Overview

The Art | Science Lab is designed for high school juniors and seniors interested in collaborating with diverse and notable minds to challenge traditional polarized thinking of the arts and sciences. A two-week summer course including lectures, required screenings, lab visits, field trips and outside study, it explores the creative aspects of scientific research and innovation. Students will gain a broad understanding of the impact of science on contemporary art and popular culture and focus on new sciences – bio- and nanotechnology. Emphasis will be on development of proposals and ideas that could serve as prototypes for either an art project or a scientific research study.

For this inaugural year of the Art | Science Lab, we are focusing on the possibilities of nanotechnology. Running in parallel with the NanoSystems Chemistry and Engineering Research (NanoCER) program at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), and the Design | Media Arts Institute at the Broad Arts center, Art | Science Lab students will benefit from further exposure and collaboration with top faculty and students participating in this program's team-based interdisciplinary nanotech research. Nanotechnology applications currently being studied involve optics, materials, and new devices.

Click here to view the syllabus and sample schedule.