If asked what all people can agree with, we can see one answer: we all love Nature, one way or another. In this book, impossible creatures (one can perceive as atoms, molecules, or minerals) playfully deliver computer codes, with an underlying notion that everything is connected: in nature, materials, sciences, techniques, computing, and the arts. In this innovative space, these characters introduce programming. While coding is intertwined into simple facts, Nature Appreciation shows ways we appreciate nature, thus, helping us learn in a playful, nonjudgmental way.
Knowledge is divided into subjects and classes at schools, colleges, then universities. Facts, processes, and rules cannot be separated. They are all connected: biochemistry, product materiality changes from matter to energy and vice versa, and conversion of one state into another. In this book, they are considered as different ways of living, such as: Geo, earth, soil, minerals, and natural resources experienced when walking on the ground. Water, transportation, ecosystems, leisure time, and energy related to water environs. Air, energy, space and planets travel, galatic objects, space junk. One can fly or carry materials and devices through it. Waves, communication, transformation, music, light, color - everything related to light, electromagnetic waves, oscillation, and vibration. Also Visually Static World, Space Exploration, and Deep Underwater are also included.
It is a part of the “Knowledge Through the Arts” series, consisting of:
Dance Code - Dance Steps as a Code
New Storytelling - Learning Through Metaphors
Code Appreciation - Reshaping Knowledge
Nature Appreciation - Knowledge as Art
Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor at the University of Northern Colorado, combines programming, software, and various media. 50 single shows, 200 fine art exhibitions: 12x ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries, traveling shows: Louvre, Paris, NTT Museum in Tokyo (5000 texts, 2000 images representing the 20th Century), Virtual Media Network, Dallas, TX work selected by NASA/CMU for the Moon Museum: http://moonarts.org/, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Denver Capitol, and Airport. And by ABAD 1/2 is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Over a dozen books on knowledge visualization and coding.
Ursyn.com ursyn@unco.edu
