The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University is presenting an exhibition of artist Robert Rauschenberg‘s works that he created in a NASA sponsored art program during the Apollo era:

Cantor Exhibition Presents Rarely Seen Art by Robert Rauschenberg Documenting First Manned Flight to the Moon: Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70 
December 20, 2014–March 16, 2015

Here is a review of the show: Art review: Robert Rauschenberg views the moon mission – SFGate.

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“Hot Shot” – Lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg. This work was created to share and express the artist’s belief in the spiritual and physical improvement of life and the mind through curiosity.

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Artist Nina Waisman will join the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence Program along with five other artists: Nina Waisman named artist-in-residence with SETI Institute – UTSanDiego.com –

I’m expecting that the research I engage in at SETI will blow my mind, and then re-settle it over time along paths and materials that will add up to provocative art experiences, based on what I’ve learned by dialoguing and/or collaborating with these esteemed scientists.”

SETI started the artist-in-residence program in 2011 with artist Charles Lindsay, a Guggenheim Fellow who remains with SETI as the artist-in-residence program leader. The effort has also involved artists Martin Wilner, Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes and Marko Peljhan.

“SETI Institute’s research is motivated by our primal interest in other life and other beings,” said senior astronomer Seth Shostak. “It’s a very human endeavor. And so is art, after all it’s one of the things that distinguishes us from every other life form on this planet. Art is the one thing that’s unique about our world. The one thing that ET doesn’t already have. Well, she may have art, but not our kind of art! There’s a natural synchrony here.”