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This exhibit was at the Hammer museum and was set up in an interesting way. There were three different screens showing different angles at with the same movie was presented. There was a random carpet in the middle of the room and a large megaphone looking think on the ground. There was a smaller TV on the wall with a copper wire stuck in the middle of it, and there were more copper wires connecting everything in the room. When I first walked in to the room I was instantly confused. I thought that the exhibit was getting set up or things were out of place. As I sat there and watched the movie that was being presented, I became even more confused. I really tried to understand how this all connected to each other, and it was not until I overheard two other people talking about it that everything finally made sense. (Courtesy of: Jordan Anderson)             First I will start with a bit of Jeanine Oleson’s background. She is...

Courtesy of: CNBC.com This week’s topic of space and art was set up in a timeline of events, and it really helped me understand how and why certain events happened. For example, in lecture one, Victoria Vesna talk about how “from the beginning of time we have been fascinated by the sky, stars, and planets.” It started with a curiosity of the unknown and our knowledge evolved with this curiosity. For example, the old belief was that the sun revolved around the planets, but when an astronomer named Copernicus discovered that it was the other way around, our knowledge evolved. Courtesy of:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1p2an-DzE Once we had some knowledge about outer space, it became our mission to get there. The way we got there though was kind of funky. It all started on July 16, 1945 when the United States set off an atomic bomb to end World WAR II and to take control of foreign policy. That control quickly ended when the Soviets set of...