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In this week ’ s material the idea that I think the most interesting is the Cosmic Dancer . Created by Arthur Woods, the Cosmic Dancer  is a 3-D sculpture with painting on its surface, and was launched into the space on the Russian Mir space station in 1993. Astronauts Alexander Polischuk and Gennadi Manakov spent some time with the sculpture, and become the only two human beings who had a chance to view it in space. Under zero gravity in the outer space the sculpture was allowed to float and spin freely, which makes it observable from every angle. The idea of a sculpture without a resting point or given angle for observation is quite stunning, in that it challenges the ordinary procedure of creating a sculpture while determining how the sculpture is to be perceived at the same time.   The surface of the sculpture is painted in a way that the color and lines mimics the motion of subatomic particles, thus making the sculpture a metaphor of recent discoveries in physics. Bef

Last week I attended the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous . Several speakers presented their own work on the combination of art and science. Among them, the one that interests me the most is artist Behnaz Farahi. Farahi ’ s artworks can be categorized into two major categories. Some of her works, including The Living, Breathing Wall  (2013), The Breathing Wall II  (2014) and Aurora  (2016), explore the interactive relationships between human and the surrounding environment; other works, such as Synapse  (2015), Ruff  (2015)and Caress of the Gaze (2015), have focuses on the wearable devices as extensions of the human body. The Living, Breathing Wall  (2013) is an installation of a wall that could move with respond to human action and human language. It is clear, both from the title of the artwork and from the installation itself, that the artist aims to create a parallelism between the organic human body and the surrounding environment. The surface of the wall is