Space exploration has always sparked the imagination of scientists and artists alike. What kind of questions are raised in the Space Age? What possibilities are out there for science-art collaborations? What kinds of art can (and should) humanity create outside of Earth? And what roles should artists therefore assume?
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Space Art Projects 1969-2014
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2. "Earth has Acquired a New Moon”
Space Art Projects
Israel Space Week 2014
Romi Mikulinsky
January 2014
3. Moon Museum 1969
Supposedly covertly attached to a leg of the Intrepid landing module (and
subsequently left on the moon) during Apollo 12.
Artists with works in the museum: John Chamberlain, Forrest Myers, David
Novros, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.
10. Thomas Ruff
“The difference between my predecessors and
me is that they believed to have captured reality
and I believe to have created a picture. We all
lost, bit by bit, the belief in this so-called
objective capturing of real reality.”
15. MurSat 2012
Options for interaction:
– listening to the complete radio spectrum, recording it and
streaming it back to earth
– mount a loudspeaker outside and send message into space
– mount a microphone and listen to space and stream the
sound(s), the silence back to earth
– have a webcam take pictures and send them
– led-lights sending messages to earth
– led faxing
– scanning for trash
– have a sensor mounted that ‘understands’ mursat’s position in
relation to earth and have that data sent back.
20. Trevor Paglen
“What I want out of art, in part, is ‘things that help us
see who we are now.’ I tend to be interested in art that
isn’t ‘about art,’ so I’m really interested in how artists
investigate the world, and yes, I think that
understanding the basics of other disciplines or ways of
thinking can really help artists do that.”
21. Trevor Paglen and Creative Time 2012
The Last Pictures disc attached to the outside of EchoStar XVI satellite
24. Pioneer Plaque
Devised by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, the plaque carries an information-rich message, in the
event that either of the spacecraft is detected and recovered in the remote future by advanced
extraterrestrials.
The message is intended to communicate the location of the human race, the appearance of an
adult male and female of our species, and the approximate era when the probe was launched.
25. Voyager Golden Record 1977
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A gold-coated phonograph record containing, in audio-encoded form, 117 pictures
explaining our planet and ourselves; greetings in 54 different human languages and
"songs" of the humpback whales; a representative selection of sounds, from an
elephant's trumpet to a rocket launching; and almost 90 minutes of some of the
world's greatest music. Devised by Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and Bernard Oliver.
27. The Last Pictures 2012
“The Last Pictures" montage. Top row: Cherry Blossoms; The Pit Scene, Lascaux
Cave; Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1940; Grinnell Glacier,
Glacier National Park, Montana, 2006.
Bottom row: Narbona Panel, Canyon de Chelly, Navajo Nation; Waterspout,
Florida Keys; Suez Canal, Egypt; Dust Storm, Stratford, Texas
28. The Last Pictures 2012
The photograph Greek and Armenian Orphan Refugees Experience the Sea for the First Time,
Marathon, Greece was also placed in earth’s orbit onboard EchoStar XVI.
29. Trevor Paglen
Nonfunctional Satellites 2013
Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)
{Schematic drawing}, Mixed media, 16 x 16 x 16 feet, 2013
30. Trevor Paglen
Nonfunctional Satellites 2013
Developed in collaboration with aerospace engineers,
the nonfunctional satellites are space-worthy
sculptures designed as small, lightweight satellites that
expand to become large, highly reflective structures.
Placing one of these objects into low-earth orbit would
create a visible "sculpture" in the night sky, visible from
the earth below after sunset and before dawn as a
bright, slowly moving, flickering star.
35. Michael Najjar
“The outer space work series aims to elucidate the
cultural dimension implicit in such technological
developments and transpose it into a process of artistic
transformation”
“Artistically speaking, my aim is to create future
scenarios of humankind – on earth, in space and on
distant planets. And what we’re seeing at the moment
is a clear acceleration in the pace of development of
novel space technologies.
37. Arthur Woods
O.U.R.S. - Orbiting Unification Ring Satellite
initiated in 1984. It was planned that the sculpture would be launched into orbit in the
year 2000 (unfulfilled).
38. Ars Astronautica
“The importance of the artist’s role in the
exploration of outer space has had much to do with
helping humanity to have a broader and more
enlightened understanding of why space exploration
and space development are such vital activities to
the future well-being of our species. As this
awareness grows, artists, with their sights set on the
stars, will continue to be at the forefront of space
exploration while making the “Space Age” a reality.”
Arthur Woods, 2013