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     With imagination, when we look up at the sky, what we see is no longer an abstract light, but a different world with infinite possibilities. Scientists are exploring space in the real world. And artists are traveling in the imaginary world. And artists could create unique art products based on the exploration of the space with their imagination. There are a lot of space elements in some artwork. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem      Giotto, the pioneer of the Renaissance, recorded the comet that pierced the sky in his "Three Dynasties" written about 1301. During the period, a dazzling comet with a long tail was clearly visible, meaning the Star of Bethlehem, the "Christmas star" that marked the birth of Jesus. It is said that the star illuminated the morning in Bethlehem at the Nativity Stable and was later decorated at the top of the Christmas tree. https://www.openculture.com/2021/09/the-brilliant-19th-century-astronomical-drawings-of-...

     Nanotechnology is a highly interdisciplinary comprehensive discipline, which includes the following four main aspects: nanomaterials, nanodynamics, nanobiology and nanopharmaceuticals, and nanoelectronics. Nanomaterials not only refer to the size of nanometers but also require the materials to have special properties. In the range of 0.1-100 nanometers, the properties of nanomaterials will undergo a sudden change, showing special properties that are different from the original atoms and molecules. Nano dynamic is mainly micromachines and microTVs, which are used in micro-sensors and actuators with transmission machinery, optical fiber communication systems, special electronic equipment, medical and diagnostic instruments, etc.      However, it also could be connected with art. The image looks like a window with smudged glass, but it's actually a magnetic domain of a thin film of iron on top of the crystal. The crystals here are made of magnesium and ga...

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/plastic-crisis-microplastics/80125/      For the second event, I attended Jessica Irish’s meeting. During the meeting, Jessica showed us a short documentary film that she made about plastic. The film is really informative and engaging to watch.  https://thecoastnews.com/vista-latest-north-county-city-to-ban-single-use-plastics/      The film introduces how broadly plastic is used in our daily life and how it could impact our lives. I really like one of the quotes that she included in the slides, “the skeleton, the connective tissue, the slippery skin of modern life”, from Susan Freinkel. This quote gave me a strong impression of how plastic had changed our life from different perspectives. https://www.generalkinematics.com/blog/different-types-plastics-recycled/        Plastic is one of the elements that we could not live without in today’s society. A lot of products we used contain plastic, such...

  https://www.gregadunn.com/product/self-reflected-sunburst/      The combination of neuroscience and art reminds me of Dr. Dunn. Greg Dunn received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and is now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia. During his Ph.D. studies, Dr.Dunn began to take a hard look at the distinctive artistic beauty of neurons in the brain. He found that after the brain tissue or nerve cells are dyed, they can often produce a unique aesthetic full of Zen-like oriental art. Dunn has always admired oriental art, especially the Chinese and Japanese ink painting style that outlines the essence of things with simple and elegant lines, which is his most fascinated artistic realm. Greg Dunn was fascinated by the artistic discoveries of his research career, which led him to a major turning point in his life - becoming a professional neuron painter, translating his knowledge of neuroscience. The love and yearning for oriental ...

https://psmag.com/ideas/most-controversial-tree-in-the-world-gmo-genetic-engineering      Hundreds of years ago, anatomy was considered contrary to religious ethics and was not accepted by the public; a few decades ago, the artist himself could not imagine biological cell tissue as a material medium on a palette. Biological sciences use living systems and organisms to develop and produce useful products. The artist uses this scientific experimental method to create a series of works with a new ascetic perspective and an attitude toward facing the growth of life. Something that impressed me the most in this week ’s lecture is GMOs. "GMO" is much like the human organism, an abstract machine. It includes the fusion of specific genes, which are exchanges between exogenous densities of each other. Transfer occurs between different species, either intentionally or spontaneously, through organic matter such as plasma, bacteria, and tissues. At every level, there is an organic ...

  This week, I attended Mary Maggic's event on April 22, 2022, topic is " We’re All Living in the Estroworld".  I n Mary's talk, she used the term "biohacking" very often, which is something that I don't really know about before. And thankfully I got the chance to explore them with Mary Maggic today. So biohacking, according to Mary's explanation, is a form of knowledge production, but out of institutional knowledge. With that being said, biohacking is a form of knowledge in which people create new biology knowledge on their own, in a non-traditional way, not from textbooks or schools.  Moreover, Mary mainly focuses on sex hormones in her work, and most of her art works' purpose is to visualize those hormones to people since sex hormones are invisible to us, but they are all around our daily life.  And she wants to minimize and neutralize people’s anxiety, fear and panic about existing in this world through her work, such as in workshop and parti...