Annie Wu- Week 10
When I first learned that this week’s topic was going to be about space exploration, gravity, and macro & micro cosmos, I could not really understand how these things related to art and design. Of course, there is some kind of artistic quality, or aspect, about the innovations that are constantly being created to send into space, but the definite connection between art and space just did not really stand out to me right away.
After learning about it more, I realized that art and design really seem to affect all different aspects of life, even space exploration; it is going as far to even contribute new ideas to space exploration and the future possibilities regarding space habitats. Space artist Pierre Comte’s project “Biospace 1, 1991” deals with the idea of having inflatable space structures, developed for the prospects of human habitation in outer space. There would be a total of two launches into space. The first launch would send a cylindrical module into space, containing essential equipment such as the power supply, remote control, and more. The second launch would send another module into space, except this one would contain the inflatable structures. The two modules would meet in space and after connecting, they would move farther apart as the structures would begin to inflate. After everything is done inflating and automatically “setting up,” the entire structure would become operational and functional. Astronauts would then be able to deal with the insides of the structure however they wanted—they would be decorating the interior like as if it were a house on Earth. It is so interesting to see how art can inspire people to create structures like this, to motivate them to invent new ways of living.
http://www.spacearts.info/en/db/get_work.php?id=810
Another thing I realized about space art is that it has the capability to really force people to experience and perceive space in completely new senses. In Louise K. Wilson’s installation, “Terra Firma, 1996,” she stages the setting of a laboratory. She used documentation from an experiment concerning motion sickness, which she had observed how the human body reacted with the space around it while being moved around (for example, spinning around in a chair). Wilson’s installation is meant to involve the viewers, for they are supposed to interact with the setting by listening to the audio documentation of the motion sickness experiment, watch the visual recordings, and read the written documents. Wilson probably engaged in this experimental study because of J.G. Ballard’s idea of “the state of humans in weightlessness as ‘a forced return to infantile dependency.’” The viewers in the installation have to analyze Wilson’s role in the experiment; not only that, but they also get to see space presented in a new way. By participating in the installation, the viewers get to see how Wilson physically interacts with the zero gravity environment surrounding her and the effects of her actions. They are able to see space in a way they are not accustomed to, and consequently, they also get to witness a different experience of the human body.
http://www.spacearts.info/en/db/get_work.php?id=619
After learning about it more, I realized that art and design really seem to affect all different aspects of life, even space exploration; it is going as far to even contribute new ideas to space exploration and the future possibilities regarding space habitats. Space artist Pierre Comte’s project “Biospace 1, 1991” deals with the idea of having inflatable space structures, developed for the prospects of human habitation in outer space. There would be a total of two launches into space. The first launch would send a cylindrical module into space, containing essential equipment such as the power supply, remote control, and more. The second launch would send another module into space, except this one would contain the inflatable structures. The two modules would meet in space and after connecting, they would move farther apart as the structures would begin to inflate. After everything is done inflating and automatically “setting up,” the entire structure would become operational and functional. Astronauts would then be able to deal with the insides of the structure however they wanted—they would be decorating the interior like as if it were a house on Earth. It is so interesting to see how art can inspire people to create structures like this, to motivate them to invent new ways of living.
http://www.spacearts.info/en/db/get_work.php?id=810
Another thing I realized about space art is that it has the capability to really force people to experience and perceive space in completely new senses. In Louise K. Wilson’s installation, “Terra Firma, 1996,” she stages the setting of a laboratory. She used documentation from an experiment concerning motion sickness, which she had observed how the human body reacted with the space around it while being moved around (for example, spinning around in a chair). Wilson’s installation is meant to involve the viewers, for they are supposed to interact with the setting by listening to the audio documentation of the motion sickness experiment, watch the visual recordings, and read the written documents. Wilson probably engaged in this experimental study because of J.G. Ballard’s idea of “the state of humans in weightlessness as ‘a forced return to infantile dependency.’” The viewers in the installation have to analyze Wilson’s role in the experiment; not only that, but they also get to see space presented in a new way. By participating in the installation, the viewers get to see how Wilson physically interacts with the zero gravity environment surrounding her and the effects of her actions. They are able to see space in a way they are not accustomed to, and consequently, they also get to witness a different experience of the human body.
http://www.spacearts.info/en/db/get_work.php?id=619
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