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Extra credit event  Pattriana Perry I attended the event "Vivarium : A Place Of Life". The installation studies the "interactions within an ecosystem, from the movement of matter and energy to the community created by the living and nonliving organisms" (Maru Garcia). This network of interactions is captured in the macroscopic and microscopic level through time, as an attempt to scale what it means to be part of a larger ecosystem: the Earth.  The exhibition consisted of two biospheres, both contained mosses, plants, and mushrooms in it. The difference was that one of the biospheres had an actor in it, who was part of the installation. The actor interacted with the plants inside by turning his head, drinking water and eating plants. I found it interesting to see him eating the plants. I wondered how it tastes.  I saw him before he went inside the biosphere, and he took off his shirt and shoes. Then had to get on his knees in order to fit inside the biosphere. I a

Week 9: Space and Art Pattriana Perry Whether it may be the Milky Way, Medusa Nebula, or even the sig ht of the Moon, space will forever be light years of galaxies and unknown planets waiting to be discovered.  Space has always been enormously fascinating to me due to its endless mysteries. The universe is so incredibly massive that it is difficult to wrap my head around it. Luckily, the "Powers of Ten" video and Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” are extremely effective in explaining how vast our universe is in terms of scale and mind capacities. It is crazy to think that everything and everyone we have ever known exists or has existed on this planet, yet it is only a speck of dust in the scheme of this entire universe. Back then, these ideas seem wayward and idealistic, but it is an art form for those who are grounded in the laws of nature and science.  A way of identifying art and space is through the universally known arrangement of stars, also coined as the term, constel