Event Three

 Me in front of artwork

For the last and final event I decided to once again head to the Hammer museum. Here I found the intricate exhibition of Judith Hopf. At first glance I was very confused. In a quick overview the room was filled with four different types of pieces. On the walls there was a tv showing different clips, while on the other walls there were pictures of dancing computers. On the floor there were brick statues of body parts and every day objects. Lastly, there were ropes hanging from the ceiling. Upon further research I discovered that this artist, Judith Hopf from Berlin aims to personify objects as a means to give it purpose and a greater touch of art.

Full image of artwork

Perhaps it was because I have taken this class for nine weeks now and see art in a different perspective that I believe this art shows how life and art are interconnected. For example the foot and arm as statues made from bricks to me depict the necessary building blocks of life. On the other hand the robot, wall and ball being made of the same material while being non living things show the connectedness between the two. The dancing computers on the walls show technology and the direction science may one day be able to take. You see, for years now people have been fearing that computers will one day take on human like characteristics and perhaps even take over the world. This is something we learned in this class during the robotics and art section. In these lectures Dr. Vesna explained how in the east robots are being used to have human like characteristics to treat sick people in a caring way. Next, the multicolored ropes hanging from the ceiling reminded me of DNA. The way the strands go from single lines to a bunches up rounded shape at the bottom reminded me of the way DNA strands wrap around together too form the chromatin in cells. Lastly, the clips of a girl flooding her apartment or a car flipping on its side may symbolize the complicated way life can be. By displaying it on a TV infront of a picture of other technology contrasts each other perfectly.

More artwork

In all, this art work was very intricate and confusing to me at the beginning but by doing a little research and sitting around this art for about an hour the ideas listed above slowly began unraveling.

Works Cited

https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/hammer-projects-judith hopf/#gallery_5a7ad3a22100d6f78272d011bce000b74abf6fd8

Penguin,           2008. Print.

Vesna,Victoria. “Lecture” Robotics + Art. 12 April. 2017. Lecture.