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For my fifth event, I went to the Hammer Museum and attended Judith Hopf's exhibition on June 8,2017. Featured in Hopf's Hammer Project are a number of recent sculptures made of bricks which are materials affiliated with architecture and not typically found in contemporary sculpture. Brick-Foot At my first sight, I saw two variations of feet, both titled Brick-Foot . One is the left food and the other is the right food. The shapes of these two feet are almost identical. The artworks were made by using different orientations of bricks. We can see the surface structure of the bricks from the left foot while the right foot shows people the internal structure of the bricks. Brick-Ball Brick- Personification of a problem As I continued to walk through the gallery, I saw another two brick works from this series on the left size of the gallery, a brick ball titled Ball in Remembrance of Annette Wehrmann , and a sculpture called Personification of a Problem .

For my fourth event, I attended a street performance offered by The Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences on June 3, 2017. The theme of the performance is "Trying out Bacterial Behaviors". The performance was to explain the idea that human thought and signals are based on chemical and physical abilities latent in bacteria. Each performer acted as a single bacteria cell and demonstrated that mindness is the internalization of movement. LEI Performance  The performance took place in a tunnel and outside the tunnel. The tunnel represents an environment we are familiar with. The performance in the tunnel simulated single cell behavior and multi-cell clusters behavior. For single cells, each "bacteria" could move toward any direction it wanted. They have figured out a way to sense large environment without sending signals to communicate with each other. For the multi-cell clusters, "bacteria" turn on group behaviors. A signal by one cell itself may not

For my third event, I attended the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous which took place at CNSI presentation room on May 25, 2017. It is Leonardo/ISAST's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. The LASER speakers are Claudia Schnugg, Tamira Elul, Stefanie Volland, Behnaz Farahi, Hans Barnard, Symrin Chawla, and David Ertel. Their recent work focuses on intertwining artists and art projects with new technologies and scientific research. I was impressed by the work done by Dr. Claudia Schnugg. She was affiliated with the Sparks project, an H2020 project focusing on making Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) accessible and comprehensible for general public. A device named "Agent Unicorn" was created in this project. It is a unicorn horn shaped headpiece which includes a camera and it is based on electroencephalography (EEG). There are electrons within the headpiece. When

As Professor Vesna said, the week’s discussion on space and art is a combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, mathematics, robots, etc. Some of these aspects were illustrated in the video Powers of Ten. It is a film dealing with relative size of things in the universe. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this film transports us to a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward into the hand of human beings with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. The journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a cell. The online lecture videos and readings provide me with the information about the history of developments in space, Copernicus’ idea of the solar system, as well as the development of the atomic bomb, the arms race, and the space wars. This week’s topic also involves different aspects such as politics, science, and popular cultures. Powers of ten When I was taking Chinese h