event blog 3: Claudia Schnugg, Color Light Motion

For this event blog, I had the pleasure and honor of learning from Claudia Schnugg regarding the topic of Experiencing Realities: From Fine-grained Data to Cosmic Events. This was such an interesting event! Claudia Schnugg presented various bodies of work that shared an interest in overlapping space and art with other topics–such as mathematics and data or the five senses. I really enjoyed the variation of mediums; there were differing modes of art structures, such as monoliths, motorized pieces, 5D pieces, that aimed to embody unique facets and representations of space.


registration screenshot. Jun 3 2023



I really enjoyed hearing from Claudia Schnugg regarding these pieces. I had never heard of them, and I had never known about the inspiration that space evokes for many artists. In fact, space has always been a consistent cause for curiosity; many individuals in history–the most notable being Leonardo Da Vinci and Galileo–have considered space a muse (Davis 1970).


As somebody that has a deep-seeded phobia of space, I never really painted the image of space in a manner that could encapsulate all of its endless beauty and vastness. Because of this, it was really changing to view space through an assortment of art; the entanglement of color, sound, motion, structure, and more all brought newfound meanings of this whole entity that surrounds us.


event screenshot 1. Jun 3, 2023. 

I found that it was especially interesting how each piece revealed a special and original understanding of space. Some of them seemed super dystopian and others seemed very psychedelic.One of my favorite pieces was the Spinning Shaft (1978) by Alejandro and Moira Sina. It's so cool that this piece was created using neon tubes and an electric motor (Sina and Sina 1978). It feels as though it would need more, but it's still such an intricate and mesmerizing piece.


event screenshot 2. Jun 3, 2023. 

Overall, I really enormously enjoyed this! I really wish to experience these bodies of art in the flesh at one point of my life. I really resonate with the drive underlying astronomical art; I appreciate the motivations to envision the world in a newfound manner that allows us to reconsider our place in the world and the impact of art (Miller 2014). For me personally, I feel like maybe they would really help ease any anxiety and fear I feel towards space. They seem very healing. 

Works Cited

Davis, Don. “Astronomical Art: From Ancient Times to the Industrial Revolution.” SpringerLink, 1 Jan. 1970, link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-49359-2_2. 

Miller, Ron. “The Art of Space, Envisioning the Universe (Op-Ed).” Space.Com, 11 Nov. 2014, www.space.com/27726-space-art-illuminates-science-and-imagination.html. 

SINA, ALEJANDRO, and MOIRA SINA. “Spinning Shaft.” David Bermant Foundation, 27 Nov. 2021, davidbermantfoundation.org/project/spinning-shaft/.

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            event 1 screenshot. Jun 3, 2023.

    event 2 screenshot. Jun 3, 2023.

            registration screenshot. Jun 3, 2023.


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