Bionics as we should precive it
“Adjective;
1. Utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body:
The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
2. Informal. Having superhuman strength or capacity.
Noun, ( used with a singular verb)
1. The study of how humans and animals perform certain tasks and solve certain problems, and of the application of the findings to the design of electronic devices and mechanical parts.” dictionary.reference.com/browse/bionic
“Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.” …show more content…
Steele’s original works, but i believe it came more out of the lack of a word for what they were portraying. What was the word for a humanbeing being given tech implants. The term “Cyborg” originates in the title of a book a few years after “bionics” is coined, and is largely based on the research surrounding it.
I might think now that this two way meaning for the term “Bionics” is perhaps just a more modern definition, for design to now work in both directions, to both take and give to nature.
When considering the original meaning of the word, it was really an absent term from language. The concept of designing from nature has always been there. Even the original tools and weapons were meant to represent the claws and teeth of predators. The most influential point of bionics has to be the study of flight. Even in ancient Mythology there was a desire to fly like the birds, but not till Leonardo Davinci did we see real results in this pursuit, to later be materialized by the Wright Brothers with the first heavier than air …show more content…
The stealth movements of an animal stalking, the exaggerated movements of a bird courting, or the Posturing of two dominant males preparing to match up head to head (not talking about UFC), all mimic dances that happen every day in nature, the very basis of biomimicry and Bionics. And although the term Bionic would probably never be heard in a dance studio, it clearly applies.
Another place we see use Bionics is in sculpture and painting. Not only in the obvious aesthetic uses of applying a natural texture to a not natural object, but in the deep-er, less aesthetic means of the art. The Skeletal structure of a clay sculpture that re-sembles our own, to the mimicking of a tropical pallet in a beautiful painting, we can continue to find Bionics in all things needing creative influence. Even music. Do you question if the birds sing our songs or if even the most modern song is just an endless rework of a bird’s song?
The missing link between Bionics and Fine art seems to really just be in the recognition of the word. We as humans take from nature far more than we realize. We are still, in large, a part of nature, so its influence on should be
“Adjective;
1. Utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body:
The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
2. Informal. Having superhuman strength or capacity.
Noun, ( used with a singular verb)
1. The study of how humans and animals perform certain tasks and solve certain problems, and of the application of the findings to the design of electronic devices and mechanical parts.” dictionary.reference.com/browse/bionic
“Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.” …show more content…
Steele’s original works, but i believe it came more out of the lack of a word for what they were portraying. What was the word for a humanbeing being given tech implants. The term “Cyborg” originates in the title of a book a few years after “bionics” is coined, and is largely based on the research surrounding it.
I might think now that this two way meaning for the term “Bionics” is perhaps just a more modern definition, for design to now work in both directions, to both take and give to nature.
When considering the original meaning of the word, it was really an absent term from language. The concept of designing from nature has always been there. Even the original tools and weapons were meant to represent the claws and teeth of predators. The most influential point of bionics has to be the study of flight. Even in ancient Mythology there was a desire to fly like the birds, but not till Leonardo Davinci did we see real results in this pursuit, to later be materialized by the Wright Brothers with the first heavier than air …show more content…
The stealth movements of an animal stalking, the exaggerated movements of a bird courting, or the Posturing of two dominant males preparing to match up head to head (not talking about UFC), all mimic dances that happen every day in nature, the very basis of biomimicry and Bionics. And although the term Bionic would probably never be heard in a dance studio, it clearly applies.
Another place we see use Bionics is in sculpture and painting. Not only in the obvious aesthetic uses of applying a natural texture to a not natural object, but in the deep-er, less aesthetic means of the art. The Skeletal structure of a clay sculpture that re-sembles our own, to the mimicking of a tropical pallet in a beautiful painting, we can continue to find Bionics in all things needing creative influence. Even music. Do you question if the birds sing our songs or if even the most modern song is just an endless rework of a bird’s song?
The missing link between Bionics and Fine art seems to really just be in the recognition of the word. We as humans take from nature far more than we realize. We are still, in large, a part of nature, so its influence on should be