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I attended Claudia Schnugg's pop-up lecture as my third event and I found it to be one of the most informative events I have gone to this entire quarter. Claudia's presentation was the clearest explanation as to why our Desma 9 class even exists and why it's so important for us to know the relationship between science and art. Science and art compliment each other very well because of many different reasons that Claudia mentioned in her lecture, but the most important I feel are access to interdisciplinary collaboration and imagination mixed with catalyst and openness. The first point brought about by Claudia is the concept of interdisciplinary collaboration. The mutual sharing of scientific research and artwork can allow for so many possibilities in different subjects that many scholars may have never known existed. I feel this interdisciplinary collaboration is the most important key as to how knowledge about our existence and things yet to be discovered can reach de

I have always seen the topic of space to be viewed most evidently through the use of art, but after learning of the different aspects of space science and art, I have learned that there is much more to how art represents space and how space inspires art. The most obvious way in which space and art relate to one another is said within the article, “Coded Utopia: Makrolab”.  The article states, “maps, images, films, diaries, programs, soundscapes, texts and streaming signals are artistic and scientific gifts - offered to other sites, other devices, other receivers, other possible futures” (Coded Utopia: Makrolab).  The article is based upon the creation of a project called Makrolab that was created by Marko Peljhan. The project was a “living laboratory” that would expand the way in which space scientists could discover more research about the universe. Another project that was founded by Marko Peljhan was the Arctic Perspective Initiative, which has a goal of spreading knowledge about t