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Having never thought of space and art's relationship before, I found this week's topic regarding the relationship between the two to be very interesting since this was the first time I had associated the two. While researching I found how art can really help space in different ways. Ways such as educating, concept visualization, and creating collaborative projects. Space and art help educate by being an easier tool used to explain complex ideas to students, workers, and other educators. It also has the ability to make a concept easier for the audience to understand and discuss. An example of concept visualization is when artists and scientists work together to compose a plan, visualize it, and communicate how to complete a future mission or task. Companies like NASA like to take on collaborative projects between artists and scientists/engineers for public display and projects to further space exploration. During the 1960s, NASA decided to create a program that would commission...

Embedding nanotechnology in art will continue to help shape the future.  Richard Feynman, a famous physicist, gave a speech at the American Physical Society at Caltech in 1959 which discussed Feynman’s idea of manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular scale [1]. Faynmans speech paved the way for the future of the nanotechnology field. Nanotechnology started gaining headway in the early 2000s and contributes to almost every other field of science [4]. Such as chemistry, biology, engineering, plus more. Artists took using nanotechnology to the next level. For instance, Cris Orfescu. Orfescu used nanotech in his art by using it to create nano-sculptures, sculptures at molecular and atomic levels. In 2006, Orfescu started to organize annual competitions for other nano-artists to display their work, and in 2008, Orfescu’s nano-art was featured in the New York Times [5]. [Darcy Lewis - Nebula of Man] [K. Elise Cohen - Resurrection] [Renata Spiazzi - Fire in the Cave] Some other way...

Regarding this week's topic, I found the following three questions to be the most intriguing: 1. Is life itself a valid expressive medium? 2. Is there a need for separate standards for artists creating or manipulating living organisms and semi-living systems? 3. How do we define and value artistic media and technologies? 1. Indeed life itself is a valid expressive medium because we all express it differently. Whether it be from the clothes we wear to our occupation, or even our personalities and morals. It's easily one of the most valid and natural ways to express oneself in my opinion, because we do it all the time without even being conscious of it, just by the way our faces look at each other.  2. As far as manipulating or creating semi-living organisms or systems is concerned, there should be separate standards for artists when it comes to this because without standards we don't have any way of knowing how far artists will go. How can an artist or viewers deem the artwo...