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When we are appreciating art, that experience unfolds in our brains. Brain as we understand now is where all the interesting and exciting things happen: our feelings, imagination, intelligence, creativity, and consciousness all reside in the brain. It is impossible to imagine what kind of interesting life a brainless zombie would lead. If eventually what we care about are the ideas and feelings that we entertain and that entertain us, then it is safe to say that the brain is the most important organ when it comes to art. We create and seek art to expand our minds through novel experiences. Hence, I can imagine the future where we modify our brains with brain computer interface technology to augment our conscious experience. With companies like Neuralink, we may be closer to that future than we expected.  "Upgrade Trailer #1 (2018) | Movieclips Trailers".  YouTube , uploaded by Movieclips Trailers. 3 Apr. 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PDeN9NRZ0.  "The Science Beh...

“Needle Tower.” Wikipedia , Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Sept. 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_Tower. Gerald de Jong produces fascinating pieces of artwork resembling Kenneth Snelson's Needle Tower using tensegrity, which is a way to hold structure by only tension and compression. In fact, as he explained in his event, Gerald de Jong was initially inspired to work with tensegrity after seeing Needle Tower. I personally found it very interesting how two seemingly opposite elements, compression and tension (like push and pull), combine to produce myriad different configurations of tensegrity art. It reminded me of how computer science starts from 0 and 1 (emptiness and existence) to produce a whole world of mathematics and computer technologies. The complexity deriving from the minimal elements that we can easily understand seems to give me a hint of the structure of the universe that perhaps gave us the perception of beauty and sense of aesthetics through evolution. An intere...

In that it brings novelty and expands our horizon while involving much human ingenuity and creativity, technological development itself is much like art. In certain utilitarian sense, the gadgets produced by, say, Dyson may have as much if not more value than other pieces of conventional artwork. Besides the work put in by industrial designers to make those gadgets as visually appealing as they are functional, some of the gadgets directly aid the work of artists in creating new artwork. The Dyson hairdryer may be wielded by a hair stylist to create a new hair style, or Apple's iPad and Mac can be used by online content creators to edit their videos, music producers to create their music, or graphic designers to experiment with their designs. That those gadgets are mass produced in factories in order to be sold and make profits may seem antithetical to art. Considered in the enlarged sense along with music, movies, mathematical theorems, and any product of collective human effort, i...

Turing Machine from  Wikimedia Commons Ideas are the currency and art of mathematics. In deep, novel, beautiful ideas lies the heart of mathematics. Like physical technologies, those ideas then combine to produce even more deep and beautiful ideas that surprise and inspire us. For instance, Alan Turing distilled the idea of computation from human "computers" back in the day, scribbling on papers and carrying digits, into abstract Turing machines that form the foundation of computer science, giving birth to the modern electronic computers and providing theoretical underpinnings for algorithms that run on those computers. Not only that, Turing machines further give rise to the Halting Problem, the problem of determining whether a computer program stops and successfully returns a result or never stops and runs endlessly like a broken record without returning a result, and the Halting Problem then implies Gödel Incompleteness Theorem, which tells us that we cannot prove that a ma...