PHYS 498 ART :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
Artist's depiction of a roton - a strange quasiparticle occuring in Bose Einstein condensates. Credit: Christopher Ticknor, LANL, Ryan Wilson & Brad Baxley, JILA
Weekly Class Meetings: Monday 3.00-4.50pm,
Default Location: Loomis 147
Project time: Wednesday 3.00-3.50 pm
Class Format: Generally each class will involve focusing on one or more scientific concept and genre of art and studying how concepts are depicted by these genres. Topics include the cosmos, waves, and quantum physics; theater, visual arts, music, and design. The format of the class will typically involve a presentation by the instructor and any student who so desires, dialog, short student presentations on some days (dispersed throughout the semester), and formulation of projects. Some classes will involve fields trips and others will have guest presenters from physics, theater, dance, and other disciplines. Some classes will also be dedicated to production and presentation of projects.
Schedule:
- Jan 14: Meet and greet; The Universe – beginnings to modern times; Depicting the cosmos in the visual arts, film, music, theater, and more (SV).
- Jan 21: No class Monday (Martin Luther King Jr. Day); Wed: Project time
- Jan 28: Project Team Formation; The Quantum World, Bizarre, cold states of matter (SV)
- Feb 4: Project formulation; Quantum Fields and Beyond (Jackson Fliss); Exploring Prime Numbers (Shyam Hari)
- Feb 11: Science of Waves - sound, electromagnetic, earthquakes, gravitational, and more (SV); Ukiyo-E Art form, its influence, and depicting waves (Jianqun Fu)
- Feb 18: Science and Theater - a glimpse of genres and developments through the ages (SV); Devising a theater piece (Ryan Yapp)
- Feb 25: Exploring the International Space Station (E. Taylor); Painting and Science (Danielle Markovitch)
- Mar 4: Field Trip to Beckman Institute - Visualization Lab Tour (Travis Ross - VisLab Manager); Microscopic Imaging (Rishee Iyer); Science-Art scavenger hunt
- Mar 11: Scientific photography, Books - The Elements and more, automatized weaving, and more (Theodore Gray - co-founder of Mathematica, writer; Nick Mann - Scientific photographer)
- SPRING BREAK (March 16-24)
- Mar 25: Rapid project presentations
- Ap 1: Creating a web space (N. Turnipseed - Writing Expert)
- Ap 8: Science and Dance (K. Simson - Dancer)
- Ap 15: TBD
- Ap 22: TBD
- Ap 29: TBD; Wednesday (May 1): Last day of instruction
Student final presentation from Spring 2017
