The HUB-Robeson Center is the hub of student life on Pennsylvania State University’s main campus, featuring food, drinks, books, and a must-stop stop at the HUB-Robeson Galleries.

Art from faculty, students, and other groups can be found in the HUB galleries, art alleys, display cases, and public projects throughout the building.

The exhibits on display change throughout the year. HUB’s newest exhibit, Over & Over Again, showcases the work of his Pennsylvania State University faculty members Tom Lauerman and Rebecca Strzelec, as well as José Pinto Duarte and her Shadi Nazarian and their engineering colleagues. Sven Bilen and Ali Memari etc..

These works, curated by visual arts and production specialist Dani Spewak, premiered at HUB Gallery on July 23rd.

In the large-scale exhibition “Over & Over Again”, selections from the previous work titled “From Earth to Mars and Back” will be used for the first time in a competition called the 2019 NASA 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge, an interdisciplinary Works from research collaborations are on display. With an international team focused on sustainable and effective housing with 3D printing.

A featured selection of “From Earth to Mars and Back” demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to drive innovative solutions in fields as diverse as visual arts, architecture and engineering.

Nazarian is an Associate Professor of Architecture and a principal faculty member involved in the production of “From Earth to Mars and Vice Versa”.

“One of the things we really want to convey is that such research is not possible without interdisciplinary participation,” says Nazarian. “The words ‘architecture’ and ‘design’ belong to all these disciplines.”

Duarte, chairman of Nazarian and her colleague Stuckemann’s Design Innovation Department and director of the Stuckemann Design Computing Center, said that innovative technology informs art, and art in turn informs innovative technology. Said it would help in my research.

Duarte said art and technology always go hand in hand, achieving innovation across disciplines and in all areas.

“Art has always been in harmony with the technology of the time,” says Duarte. “The great thing about art is not just using technology to make art, but using art to interpret technology.”

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Both Nazarian and Duarte said interdisciplinary research and the fusion of art and technology can help create accessibility in advanced fields. Demonstrate advanced technological innovation through means that are easily understood or accepted by non-Tabata people.

“The average person is intimidated by scientific papers and shy away from reading them, but seeing art embedded with that technology is intriguing,” Nazarian said. “Knowledge is already beginning to be introduced by triggering that curiosity.”

Duarte said he believes knowledge is an entity.

“The division into science and art is fictitious,” said Duarte. “We need everyone.”

Sven Bilén Sven Bilén, Dean of the Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs and Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical and Aerospace Engineering, served as the systems engineer for this project.[pulling] Many different entities come together to cooperate in new and different ways. “

“When you do things from an interdisciplinary perspective, innovation really happens,” said Biren, remembering that when thinking about advances in the visual arts, artists can use new techniques as a result of new materials and techniques. I said it was important to keep development of engineering.

“I think engineers are creative and artists are innovative,” says Bilén. “We may use different words and different languages, but we often do very similar things.”

According to Duarte, the use of innovative technology in “From Earth to Mars and Back” focuses on real-world applications. It aims to revolutionize construction and sustainability in addressing larger social issues such as housing insecurity.

Duarte finds beauty in combining real-world applications with visual arts.

“When a work expresses its own time, it reflects society, including its technology, and when it uses state-of-the-art technology, [technology] I think that time will be very beautiful,” said Duarte. “Use all the power available at the time to express your ideas.”

Nazarian and Duarte’s work is just one of the selections presented in the “Over & Over Again” exhibition.

An assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, Lauermann works at the intersection of sculpture, craft and design.

Lauerman’s carefully selected installations seek to explore the visual, tactile and visceral experiences and emotional capacities of built places using innovative 3D printing and sculpture.

Strzelec, Distinguished Professor of Visual Arts and Program Coordinator of Visual Arts Studies at Penn State Altoona, is another featured artist in the exhibition.

Strzelec’s body of work is, in her personal statement, “a continuing investigation of how wearable objects interact with body surfaces.”

Her work consists of wearable objects created through computer-aided design, 3D modeling, and 3D printing, highlighting her commitment to innovative technology and reimagining the objects in this exhibition.

The ‘Over & Over Again’ exhibition runs through September 4th at HUB’s HUB Gallery. A celebratory reception will be held at the HUB Gallery on August 31 from 5:00 p.m. to his 7:30 p.m.

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