Loading ...Walking around the 5th floor of Bren Hall today, I noticed some interesting artwork.
Professor Bonnie Nardi has teamed up with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts students for an installation dubbed Informatics Projects.
Red Reflections by Peter Park
Self Portrait by Belinda Vong
From Professor Nardi:
The Department Informatics, and Elizabeth Watkins of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, are proud to present Informatics Projects, a brand-new gallery space within the Informatics Department.
Alumni and student artwork from the Studio Art Department will be exhibited within the lobby, hallway, and meeting spaces of the Informatics Department. Hopefully this project, presented jointly by Bonnie Nardi, professor in the Informatics Department and Elizabeth, a student in the Studio Art Department, will bridge the gap between the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. These schools, being so lauded and yet so far from one another physically and perceptively, deserve to be bridged in a way that encourages cross pollination of ideas, research and creativity. This project will foster a greater sense of community on campus: the students and faculty of the Informatics Department will be shown a new set of visual ideas, and art students will be shown a way of thinking and field of academia that is rarely found in conjunction with the practice of fine arts.
In addition, instituting visual interest in the open spaces in the Informatics Department will help to warm up the brand-new walls, hallways, classrooms and meeting halls that make up Donald Bren Hall. This warmth will make spending time in the building a more pleasant sensory experience, and will also play a wonderful backdrop to the various visitors to this new and innovative Department.
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This is really cool! The artwork itself and the idea of bridging the gap between the art/design with computer science is even more exciting.