@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0802, TITLE={Vitae a sculpture on the moon, the alliance of Art and Science}, AUTHOR={Anilore Banon, }, JOURNAL={Art and Science}, VOLUME={6}, NUMBER={Special issue}, YEAR={2022}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Vitae-a-sculpture-on-the-moon-the-alliance-of-Art-and-Science}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0802}, ISSN={2515-8767}, ABSTRACT={The artist Anilore Banon has created and developed the VITAE Project, a participative artwork to be installed on the Moon. VITAE Project is an artistic and scientific odyssey, the artist accompanied by engineers and scientists, have developed a sculpture able to adapt to lunar constraints. (Shape Memory alloy (SMA)-Nitinol and gold Mylar). One million handprints collected around the world will be printed on it. VITAE, once installed on the Moon will open and close only by the heat of the Sun. It is designed to travel and be placed on the moon aboard a rover among scientific experiences.}}