Event 1

I searched for a building named Art | Sci center that opened the first event called "Collective Bread Diaries: a taste of protest". I was a student of engineers who always went to the North Campus for taking the classes, but I never imagined that there was Art | Sci center right next to Bolter building. Before entering the center, I wondered what it was built for, and I eventually found that the center is a place for building to pursue "Third Culture" (Kelly) that is created by improving the infinite potential between art and science. As I looked at the purpose of the center, I realized that the university was working hard to combine the two cultures.

The event was quiet and dark with only a few lights on be. I walked in and looked around. On one side, an artist, named Haytham Nawar, wrote a short article about the purpose of the exhibition. On the other side, there were exhibited bread figures with various shapes like figure 1. There was a large printer in the middle, and it was still printing something. As people gathered a little bit, he began to talk about why he opened the event. He wanted to draw on the commonly unnoticed value of bread. There are the reasons that the people ignore the value of bread, since the bread was the center of early mankind formation and it is the food that has been in contact with the people for a long time due to start to make and eat from ancient Egypt. In addition, He collected and articulated the bread of various countries, not the bread produced in one country, since making technique and material making bread for each country are different; Melanpan is a Japanese bread covered in a layer of cookie dough, and Brioche is a France bread made with high butter and egg content.

Moreover, the event gives viewers an opportunity to share and draw personal visual expressions of the bread. These interactive activities help to organize visual diary arrangements. The artist's purpose of copying bread into a machine is to emphasize the conscious perception of one's distinct identity. Of course, although as Benjamin said, continuing to print his paintings reduces artistic creativity, I think it is worth seeing this event in that the people can share and draw their expressions with each other. Moreover, by focusing on the unnoticed value bread, the writer seems to be telling the people that the value of all things should be respected.

source

1)Kelly, Kevin. "The Third Culture" Science 13 February 1998: Vol. 279 no. 5353 pp. 992-993. Web.

2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bread

3)https://fabflour.co.uk/fab-bread/types-of-bread/

4)WALTER BENJAMIN "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)

5)http://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1385