13 AVRIL V : OUTER SPACE - CYBER SPACE
Dimanche 25 mars 2001 - Boulogne Billancourt - France
Sunday March 25th 2001 - Boulogne Billancourt - France
General Statement
The "Rencontres du 13 avril" are a series of workshop co-organized by Leonardo/OLATS, the OURS Foundation and the International Academy for Astronautics. Every year, since 1997, it gathers leading scientists and artists on a specific theme for a one day workshop in Boulogne-Billancourt in the near suburb of Paris. The "Rencontres du 13 avril" focuses on the exchanges between artists and scientits and on the cultural impact of space activities.
In year 2001 the fith "Rencontres du 13 avril" will be on the theme "Outer space - Cyber space".
Outer Space - Cyber space
The Fifth Space Arts Worshop will explore the ways that artists and scientist are using the internet both to extend human presence in outer space, but also to bring access to the results of space exploration to earth.
The first interplanetary internet nodes are being planned, and the international space station will be connected to the internet. Space Agencies are now using the internet to enable broad access to the results of space exploration: future missions are being planned to allow live webcast of images. Simulated extraterrestial worlds have been created by artists in virtual space, and artists and scientists have used the web to create scenarios of the future of space exploration.
This workshop will explore how outer space and cyberspace are becoming inter-connected and how concepts and approaches that have been developped within the outer space activities can be related to concepts and approaches that are now experienced in cyberspace.
The OURS Foundation is a non-profit cultural and astronautical organization
founded and established in 1990 in Switzerland by Arthur Woods.
The primary purpose of the OURS Foundation is to introduce, nurture and
expand a cultural dimension to humanity's astronautical endeavors. This task
is being manifested through the identification, investigation, support and
realization of related cultural, astronautical, humanitarian, environmental
and educational activities which may take place both on and off planet
Earth, and which are deemed as beneficial to the development and advancement
of human civilization in this new environment.
During the past ten years the OURS Foundation has been responsible for
organizing various space related cultural events including numerous
exhibitions of space art, symposia and publications, i.e. IAF Congresses
in Oslo, Turin, Melbourne, Amsterdam and art-in-space projects realized on
the Mir space station 1993 (Cosmic Dancer Sculpture) and 1995 (Ars Ad Astra
on EuroMir95).
The Subcommittee on the Arts and Literature was initiated under the auspices
of the IAA Committee on Space Activities and Society in 1988. It held its
first symposium session in 1989 at the 40th IAF Congress, Torremolinos,
Spain. The Subcommittee on Arts and Literature is commissioned to examine,
track and acknowledge developments related to the cultural aspects of
astronautics.
Ivan Almar
Prof. dr. Ivan Almar
Joachim Baptista
Director & Editor for documentaries, advertising & industrial films
Michael Benson
Michael Benson is an American filmmaker and writer based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His life-long interest in space exploration has resulted in a series of texts during the last few years focussing on the unmanned exploration of space. Among them is "A Space in Time," which will be published by The Atlantic Monthly this year. Benson's feature-length film "Predictions of Fire", which focussed on the multimedia collective art movement NSK and the history of Slovenia and Yugoslavia, won a number of international best documentary awards. Benson has since produced a 55-minute film on Hong Kong titled "Fragrant Harbor/UK->PRC/Pass the Glass," and he is working on post-production for a feature-length global road movie titled "More Places Forever." In December he filmed the first theatrical performance ever conducted in front of an audience in zero gravity - the Noordung G-0 Biomechanical Theater. In combination with material featuring other artists who have created work or conducted research in zero gravity, he plans to make a film titled "Zero." It will focus on the emerging genre of zero-gravity art and trace its antecedents.
Annick Bureaud
Specialist of art and technology. Coordinator of OLATS/Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and the Techno-Sciences. Executive director of CHAOS, non-profit organization which publishes the IDEA online/International Directory of Electronic Arts (http://nunc.com). Eletronic art critic. Lecturer at the art school of Aix-en-Provence.
Ewen Chardronnet
Ewen Chardronnet was born in 1971. He is a journalist (upper graduated) and musician (electronic music). He has been active in the AAA worldwide network since 1996.
In 2000, he produced with Jason Skeet from London and Riccardo Balli from Bologna, records dedicated to the AAA: the "Rave in Space" CD, and the "333, Sonic Belligerenza" LP. He organized the AAA annual event, the "Gravité Zéro Festival" (October 23 to November 1) with his association "Ellipse". The Gravité Zéro Festival started with a complete video report (with the help of the professional science-fiction association AELITA - Evangelisti/Della Chiesa/Gyge, and with the technical assistance of Coline Fomekong and Régis Lescoublet) on Utopia, the Science-Fiction 2000 Convention in Nantes. He continued with an AAA party in Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, and several AAA network meetings such as a video night, an exhibition, a private party, and concluded with a final "rave in space" at le Batofar in Paris.
He also organized (with TNT Magazine) for the AAA, the Tirnanog Free Festivals 1996 and 1997; gave a music performance and a talk for the AAA Conferenza Intergalattica in Bologna 1998; a "supersonic space adventures" concert (XKV8 band) for the AAA, during the World- Information.org Event in Brussels 2000.
Currently, his interests are related to space and the arts, electronic music, science fiction, politics and information networks. He studied science in university, and worked in weather analysis, GPS and surveillance systems. He began to study journalism; politics and information networks in Paris, and at the same time became involved in electronic music and various space and arts projects through the AAA in 1996. Currently, he is involved in a French AAA book project,
and in Science-Fiction as a journalist. He regularly provides texts for the AAA.
Richard Clar
Richard Clar is a Southern California Space Artist now based in Paris. He is the Director of Art Technologies, Los Angeles/Paris. An early pioneer of art-in-space, Richard began interdisciplinary projects in 1982 with the design of a NASA approved art payload for the U.S. Space Shuttle. In 1995, in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, he created a constellation sculpture in sun-synchronous orbit using 297 orbital debris objects. His focus on the creation of art-in-space utilizes data and processes related to the various facets of space. Subjects include the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Orbital Debris, issues of War, and aspects related to Water. Richard's work seeks to engage a broad audience from varied cultural backgrounds. Currently, he is the Secretary of the International Academy of Astronautics Subcommittee on Art and Literature. He has served on the Graphic Arts Council Executive Board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Jack Cherne
Jürgen Claus
Artist, author, and educator. Artist-in-residence, Institute for Humanistic
Studies, Aspen, 1972; artistic collaborator, Olympic Games, Munich,
1970-72; fellow and research associate, Center for Advanced Visual Studies,
MIT, Cambridge, 1983-88; lecturer in art and technology, Academy of Fine
Arts, Munich, 1986-; editorial advisor and international co-editor,
Leonardo, International Journal, MIT Press, 1987-; director, Centre
Overoth, Baelen, Belgium, 1989-; professor, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne,
1991-2000; coordinator and participant, SolArt Global Network (with Nora
Claus), 1993-; task leader, European Community Project, BIMODE-Development
of bi-functional photovoltaic modules for building integration, 1997-2000.
Awards: Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn, 1983; Institute for Foreign Relations,
Stuttgart, 1987; Prix Lago Maggiore, Videoart Festival, Locarno 1988;
European Solar Prize, Bonn 1995 (with Nora Claus); Deputy Governor,
American Biographical Institute, Raleigh.
Various Solar Art Works in public Spaces; One man shows in about 50
galleries in Aspen, Berlin, Lisbon, Munich, Tokyo. 11 books. among others:
"Expansion der Kunst" (Expansion of Art), 1970; "Planet Ocean", 1972;
"SonnenMeer" (SunOcean), 1995; "Kulturelement Sonne" (Cultural Element
Sun), 1997.
Address: Prof. Jürgen Claus, Centre Overoth, Overoth 5, B-4837 Baelen,
Belgium.
Alexander van Dijk
I am an aerospace engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Aerospace
Engineering of the Technical University of Delft in June 2000. My master
thesis comprised the LunarSat-EarthViews feasibility study, which I
performed at the ESA Office for Education and Outreach at ESTEC under
supervision of Mr. Wubbo Ockels between September 1998 and May 2000. I
first proposed the EarthViews concept to Mr. Ockels for the Euromoon2000
mission back in May 1998. At the time, he was project manager of the
Euromoon2000 project. After Euromoon2000 was discontinued by ESA council,
he invited me to perform the feasibility study for the lunarSAt mission,
which came out of the legacy of Euromoon2000. I also performed my
practical work period (stage) at the Office for education and outreach as
member of the LunarSat Public Outreach and Education team.
I gave several presentations of the EarthViews project, last time during
the International Conference on the Exploration and Utilisation of the
Moon (ICEUM4 conference) at ESTEC (this is the paper I send you). Also
gave a presentation about the EarthViews project during a mediamatic
saloon (platform for new media projects) at BABY, a society for media
creatives in Amsterdam.
Within the aerospace field, I am especially interested to communicate
space to the public and to broaden the scope of aerospace, most
importantly to bring art and space together. I am very interested in the
relationship between outer space and cyberspace, because I believe that
cyberspace is now what outer space was during the 60's.
I am currently employed in the Internet field as digital movie editor for
streaming media content on web.
Alexander van Dijk T:+31 (0) 20-3306424
Kitsou Dubois
Chorégraphe, pédagogue et chercheuse en danse, Kitsou Dubois s'intéresse particulièrement à la relation Art/Science. Elle travaille depuis 10 ans avec la recherche spatiale sur la gestuelle et les processus d'orientation et de perception en apesanteur. Elle a expérimenté l'apesanteur à bord de 9 vols paraboliques proposés par la recherche spatiale française (CNES) entre 1990 et 1994, un vol à la Cité des Etoiles en Russie en septembre 2000, et sont actuellement prévus 3 vols avec l'Agence Spatiale Européenne en mai 2001.
Lauréate de la "Villa Medicis Hors-les-murs" en 1989 pour un séjour à la NASA, Kitsou Dubois a travaillé avec le CNES et proposé un entraînement des astronautes à partir des techniques de danse. Elle a pu ainsi participer à une dizaine de vols paraboliques et expérimenter l'apesanteur. C'est la première artiste chorégraphique au monde qui travaille avec la recherche spatiale sur la gestuelle en apesanteur.
Docteur en Esthétique, Sciences et Technologie des arts, elle est artiste en résidence à l'Imperial College à Londres (grâce au programme mis en place par Arts Catalyst) en collaboration avec un groupe de scientifiques (neurophysiologue et bioméchaniciens) le biodynamic groupe.
Après avoir créé " Gravité zéro " une pièce sur les premières émotions inoubliables du vol en apesanteur, à Bagnolet , à la Grande Halle de la Villette à Paris et au théâtre Garonne à Toulouse, Kitsou Dubois cherche à créer un autre espace de représentation pour offrir et faire partager au spectateur sur terre les enjeux du corps sans poids et surtout la trajectoire qui existe entre le corps avec poids et le corps sans poids. C'est la deuxième étape : " Trajectoire fluide ".
Choreographer, teacher and researcher in dance, Kitsou Dubois is particularly interested in the art/science relationship.
She has been working for 10 years in collaboration with Space Research about gestures, movements, orientation processes and perception in weightlessness. Between 19990 and 1994, she experimented weightlessness during 9 parabolic flights with the French Space Research (CNS), a flight in collaboration with the Russian Space Research (Star City) in September 2000, and now three flights are planed with ESA in May 2001.
Fellow of the "Villa Medicis Hors-les-murs" programme in 989, Kitsou Dubois worked with the CNES and proposed a training protocol for the astronauts based on dance techniques. She has been the first choreographer and artist to work in collaboration with Space Research to experiment movements in weightlessness.
Kitsou Dubois has a Ph.D in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technology in the Arts. She is currently artist in residence at the Imperial College, London (in a programme put together by Arts Catalyst) and collaborates with a group of scientists (neurophysiologists and biomecanics), the biodynamic group.
After her first choreography "Gravité Zéro", performed at Bagnolet and the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, and at the Garonne Theater in Toulouse, Kitsou Dubois is now working on a new project "Trajectoire Fluide" (Fluid Trajectory). This new work aims to share with the audience, on earth, the perception of the weightless body, and moreover, the trajectory between a body with weight to a body without weight.
Bronac Ferran
Bronac Ferran works as Senior Collaborative Arts officer at the Arts Council of England. She heads Unit dedicated to the support of innovative R&D and interdisciplinary practice and looks after Art and Science collaborations as well as work falling between and outside conventional artform categories. She was UK representative on the Council of Europe's advisory group on art and culture a few years back and is currently chairing the programming group for the CODE Conference happening in Cambridge UK in April 2001 (see www.cl.cam.ac.uk/CODE)
Frank M. Friedlaender
Manager emeritus, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
Flis Holland
Flis Holland is taking a gap year between School and University, where she
will study for MEng in Satellite Engineering. She is currently a volunteer
space education worker; assistant at Space School UK, is on the committee of their alumni association, is webmaster for both the Space Education Council and Friends of Space School. Since October 2000 she has been a corresponding member of the IAF Space and Education Committee and a member of the IAA Subcomitte on Art and Literature.
After an exhibition of her art work in Newcastle, UK during the summer of
2000 she has continued to develop her artskills and became interested in space art, and in bringing the artistic and scientific/engineering communities
closer together. Together with Chris Welch she has proposed a parabolic
flight piece to the Arts Catalyst Space Art Forum in the UK and is now
working on plans for a space art exhibition.
Ted Krueger
Ted Krueger is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of
Information Technology for the School of Architecture at the University of
Arkansas. He has exhibited, published and lectured on an international basis
for 15 years. Currently, he is guest editing an issue of the journal
Convergence on the topic of Intelligent Environments.
Ted Krueger, Director of Information Technology
Research Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
206C Vol Walker Hall, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 USA
Rob La Frenais
Rob La Frenais is the curator of the Arts Catalyst. He has been organizing
visual art projects on an international level since 1987, curating major
projects with artists such as James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, Stelarc and
Orlan. From 1979 to 1987 he was the editor of Performance Magazine, a
UK-based European cross-artform journal. He joined the Arts Catalyst in
1997
Brice Lancon
Louis Laidet
Louis Laidet graduated from ISEP (Paris) in 1963.
National service: officer in French Air Force (1963-1964)
Régis Lescoublet
After studies in Fine Art School, he's now involved in
video editing. He includes this short documentary on
AAA's activities in his project of making films in his
own video home-studio. He's also realised a
documentary (in process) and an article in SF-Mag on
Utopia, a science-fiction festival in Nantes (France).
Lorelei Lisowsky
Lorelei Lisowsky is a digital media, public performance artist, and researcher.
http://cdm.sfai.edu/mzg
Roger Malina
Directeur du Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale de Marseille (CNRS), directeur du Center for Extreme-Ultraviolet, Berkeley, California, directeur de Leonardo.
Susan McKenna-Lawlor
Scientist, Susan McKenna-Lawlor is a Professor in the Department of Experimental Physics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth as well as a Member of the Senate and of the Managing Board of that University. She is also Managing Director of her own Company Space Technology Ireland, Ltd. which builds instrumentation for space. She has acted as PI/CoI for various experiments flown on ESA, NASA and Russian missions. Currently she is participating in ESA's SOHO, Cluster, Rosetta and Mars Express Missions and in NASA's WIND and Gravity Probe B (Relativity) Missions.
William J. O'Neil
Mr. O'Neil received his BS degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University with Distinction in 1961. He has an MSAE from USC. He worked at Boeing Airplane Company and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company prior to joining JPL in 1963. His assignments at JPL have included trajectory design and navigation for Surveyor--the first soft landing lunar spacecraft, Navigation Chief of Mariner Mars 1971--the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit another planet, Navigation Chief for Viking--the first soft-landings on Mars, and Manager of the JPL Mission Design Department. Mr. O'Neil served as the Science and Mission Design Manager for Project Galileo during its development phase throughout the 1980's. A few months after Galileo's October 18, 1989 launch, Mr. O'Neil was appointed Galileo Project Manager. The Galileo spacecraft--an Orbiter and an Entry Probe--arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995 becoming the first to penetrate an outer planet atmosphere and the first to orbit an outer planet. On its circuitous route, Galileo became the first spacecraft to perform asteroid flybys--Gaspra in October 1991 and Ida in August 1993. Project Galileo discovered a natural satellite of Ida--the first ever sighting of an asteroid satellite. The Galileo Orbiter successfully completed its two-year primary mission scientific tour of the Jupiter System on December 7, 1997 and is now in an extended Jupiter tour to the end of this century.
In February 1998 Mr. O'Neil was appointed Chief Technologist for the Mars Exploration Program at JPL. He led the Mars Sample Return Mission Architecture Study and subsequently the implementation planning for the Mars Sample Return Project with first missions to be launched in 2003 and 2005 to return samples to Earth in 2008. On November 16, 1998 Mr. O'Neil was appointed Project Manager for the Mars 2003/2005 Sample Return Project, which will be the first project to bring samples from another planet to Earth. That Project was cancelled in April 2000 in the wake of the Mars '98 Project failures. Mr. O'Neil has since been the manager of the newly formed JPL Systems Management Office. He will be retiring this spring for a sabbatical and then private consulting.
Mr. O'Neil has been honored with NASA's highest award--the Distinguished Service Medal. He has also received the Purdue Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Padova, Italy--Galileo's University. He resides with his wife in Sierra Madre, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. They have three adult children and two grandchildren. His outside interests include travel, downhill skiing, collecting classic Packard automobiles, and real estate investment.
Anne Nigten
Anne Nigten is manager of the V2 Lab, staff member of V2 Organization in
Rotterdam and content manager of EncART (European Network for cyber ART).
Over the last 13 years, she has been working as an independent media
artist, and simultaneously fulfilled several management jobs for the media
art sector in the Netherlands. Besides this Anne has practised several more
technical oriented functions.
Marko Peljhan
Marko Peljhan was born in 1969 in Nova Gorica and resides in Ljubljana,
Slovenia. He has founded the arts organisation PROJEKT ATOL in 1992, its
technical branch PACT SYSTEMS (Projekt Atol Communications Technologies)
in 1995. He is the co-founder of LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab)
and coordinator of the MAKROLAB and INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES projects and
initiatives. PACT has also worked with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in 1999 and 2000 to organise 4 arts based parabolic flights, 3 for the Slovenian Noordung team and 1 in cooperation with Arts Catalyst for the Franco/British parabolic flight of Kitsu Dubois in 2000.
Jean-Marc Philippe
Artist (qualified geophysician), decides in 1966 to "forsake the rational for the intuitive." 1967 / 1980 : traditional painter. (Exhibitions : Museum of Modern Art - Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, FIAC - Grand Palais). 1978 / 1980 Produces "variations graphiques" series of cathodic screen images. 1980: incorporates new
technologies into his work. 1980 / 2001: Develops space art projects. 1986 / 1987: creates "Messages from mankind to the Universe" work of art composed of messages collected via Minitel all over France and beamed into the heart of the galaxy by the radio telescope in Nançay. 1985 /1990: produces the first sculptures using shape memory alloys. 1994 / 2001: Creates the "Sphere of Mars" and "KEO".
Jane Prophet
Jane Prophet is currently a research fellow at the University of
Westminster and a lecturer in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art. Her
body of work covers large scale installations, digital print, websites
and CDROMs. Prophet has exhibited her work throughout the UK, Europe and
Canada, as well as on the internet. Among her past projects is the
award-winning website, TechnoSphere, made with Gordon Selley which
reflects her interest in landscape and artificial life. A real time 3D
interactive version, made with Mark Hurry, is part of the permanent
exhibition in the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV at
Bradford, UK.
Jocelyne Rotily
Jocelyne Rotily est Docteur en histoire de l'art et en civilisation
américaine. Elle est spécialisée dans l'histoire du collectionnisme
américain et dans l'étude de l'art moderne américain, y compris l'art des
minorités. Depuis 1997, elle travaille pour Leonardo/L'OLATS en tant que
chargée de projet et graphiste. Elle est responsable des projets on-line :
" Afrique Virtuelle ", exposition multidisciplinaire sur les cultures
africaines contemporaines et traditionnelles ; " Frank Malina, artiste
cinétique et ingénieur en astronautique ".
Elle est également chargée de recherche pour la Fondation Varian Fry,
France, fondation dont le but est de diffuser, auprès du public le plus
large et dans les établissements scolaires ou universitaires, le souvenir
de la Résistance humanitaire organisée par Varian Fry et son équipe du "
Centre Américain de Secours ", installés à Marseille pendant la Seconde
Guerre mondiale.
Boursière à la Fondation Roberto Longhi à Florence et à l'Ecole Française
de Rome, elle a écrit une étude biographique sur l'historien d'art
américain Bernard Berenson mettant en exergue ses relations avec les
intellectuels français (André Gide, Marcel Proust...), et sa contribution
au développement du collectionnisme d'objets d'art de la Renaissance dans
l'Amérique du début du siècle. Elle a publié pour des revues littéraires
telles que " L'infini " et " Critique " quelques articles montrant son
souci de construire d'étroites correspondances entre les arts visuels et la
littérature. Spécialiste de l'histoire des relations artistiques entre la
France et les Etats-Unis, elle vient de publier plus récemment un ouvrage
intitulé " Artistes américains à Paris, 1914-1939 " (Paris, L'Harmattan,
1998) dans lequel elle examine le rôle joué par Paris et son avant-garde
artistique dans la naissance d'un art typiquement américain.
Elle a enseigné à Harvard University dans le département d'Histoire de
l'art et dans le département des Littératures et Langues Romanes. En
France, elle a également enseigné des cours d'histoire de l'art américain
(19ème et 20ème siècles), à l'Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence).
Jocelyne Rotily is Doctor in Art History and in American Civilization. She
is specialized in the history of American art collecting and in the study
of modern American art, including arts of the minorities. Since 1996, she
has been working for Leonardo/L'OLATS, as a curator, and graphic designer.
She is in charge of two projects : " Virtual Africa ", a multidisciplinary
exhibition on traditional and contemporary African cultures ; and " Frank
J. Malina, Kinetic artist and Engineer in Astronautics ".
She is also research assistant at the Varian Fry Foundation, in France, a
foundation of which purpose is to bring to the largest public audience and
to schools and universities in France the memory of the humanitarian
resistance of Varian Fry and of the American rescue and relief organization
he established in Marseilles during World War II.
As a fellow at the Roberto Longhi Foundation in Florence and at the Ecole
Française de Rome, she first wrote a biographical study on the American art
historian Bernard Berenson, focusing on his relationships with French
intellectuals (André Gide and Marcel Proust...) and on his contribution to
the development of Renaissance art collecting in the United States. She
published a few articles in literary journals such as " L'Infini " and "
Critique " in which she demonstrated her strong interest in building close
connections between visual arts and literature. As a specialist in the
history of French American artistic relationships, she more recently
published a book untitled " Artistes américains à Paris, 1914-1939 "
(Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999) in which she examines the role played by Paris
and its artistic avant-garde in the birth of a typically " American " art.
She was a teacher at Harvard University in the Art History Department and
in Romance Languages Department. In France, she also taught undergraduate
classes on American art (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of
Aix-en-Provence.
To see her work : cf. http://www.olats.org/africa/avva.shtml, and :
http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.shtml
The OURS Foundation
http://www.ours.ch
International Academy of Astronautics
Committee on Space Activities and Society
Subcommittee on Arts and Literature
http://www.iaanet.org/
Liste des participants
almar@konkoly.hu
born 1932 Budapest, Hungary
graduated in astronomy in 1954 at the Eotvos University, Budapest
background: astrophysics, astrophotometry, later since 1958
space research, optical tracking of satellites, upper-atmospheric
research and satellite geodesy.
Director Satellite Geodetic Observatory (1972-82)
Dep. Director Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (1982-1992)
DSc 1980, member of IAA since 1980
Co-chair of IAA SETI Committee, chairman of Terminology Committee
President of the Hungarian Scientific Council on Space Research,
Hon. Chairman of the Hungarian Astronautical Society.
Member of COSPAR, AGU, NYAS, IAU
jobaptista@aol.com
Director for theater & performances
Doctorate (PHD) , Université Panthéon Paris II Assas (in progress). Topic : Transnational media in Europe since the origin.
Associate researcher, CNRS, Laboratory for communication & politics. Research on the public European space.
michael.benson@pristop.si
annickb@altern.org
ewenahahah@hotmail.com
rclar@arttechnologies.com
wrtflyer@aol.com
jurclaus@euregio.net
http://www.khm.de/~SolArt
vandijka@xs4all.nl
Da Costastraat 36 M:+31 (0) 6-55970646
1053 ZN Amsterdam
kitsou@club-internet.fr
Bronac.ferran@artscouncil.org.uk
friedlaender@sag.lmsal.com
Program Manager Soft X-ray Telescope Program
IAF Public Outreach Promoter
Mass Transit Studies Participant
'Off the grid' builder
Residential real estate developer
Real estate syndicator
Investment advisor
Classic car collector
World traveler
artonauts@aol.com
tkrueger@uark.edu
501 575-7101 tel, 501 575-7099 fax
http://comp.uark.edu/~tkrueger
roblafrenais@clara.co.uk
and with Nicola Triscott organized shows such as 'Atomic', featuring the
nuclear artist James Acord, and the major international conferences 'Eye of
the Storm' and 'Cosmic Chances' at the Royal Institution, London, as well as
setting up and chairing the UK Space Art Forum, taking place in 1999 and
2000. In August 1999 he took part in the first dedicated artists' parabolic
flight to take place in Russia with the Yuri Gagarin Training Centre,
organized by Marko Peljhan for Dragan Zivadinov's Noordung company. He
describes himself as a reluctant conscript to the artist cosmonaut corps.
Web: http://www.artscatalyst.org
lancon@noos.fr
louis.laidet@cnes.fr
He has been working for CNES since 1965. He started working on satellite control systems and became head of the satellites tracking station of Bretigny in 1968.
In 1971 he started the development of the CNES space remote sensing program, and in 1976 became Director of GDTA (Groupement pour le Développement de la Télédétection Aérospatiale).
In 1983 he was appointed Space Attaché at the French Embassy in Washington where he spent 5 years developing and promoting collaborations between the American and French Space Programs, among them Topex-Poseidon oceanographic project, life science projects, ISS cooperation, etc.
In 1988 he joined CNES-HQ as Director for Communications.
Since 1998 he is Delegate for relations between CNES and international space related institutions.
Member of International Academy of Astronautics since 1981
Member of Board of Trusties of International Space University
Member of Board of Institut Français d'Histoire de l'Espace
Member of International Affairs Committee of AIAA
Member of AAAF, Eurisy, Euroscience, Eucosat, IAF.
Numerous publications on the following themes: Remote Sensing,
Communicating with the Public, Space and Poetry, French Space Program, etc.
Sports: Jogging, Tennis, Ski, Private pilot licence.
regiez@yahoo.com
spacegirlin0g@hotmail.com
Working as an artist in public places for ten years, Lorelei experienced the power and potential for social interaction of the artist in the community. Co-founder Exploding Cinema in London, the New Cinema in SE Cornwall Arts Forum, Co Director Community Arts Resource in England. Lorelei has produced several works, based on the theme of weightlessness, using documentation of artists on parabolic flights in a video installation in SFAI's Spring show 1999 'Conjunctions of Weightlessness' and 14 Days to Go' info-performance countdown to NASA. Since founding the Zero-g Arts Lab in San Francisco, she has organized three "Space Art" events and a tele-conferencing debate between an artist in Slovenia and artists in San Francisco. She presented her work at the Fourth Space Art Forum in London and attended Deaf2, Wiretap event, 'Slow Crash- an afternoon in Zero Gravity'. She will fly her first Parabolic flight in March 2001 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
http://www.3220.com/zerogravityarts/index.html
rmalina@alum.mit.edu
STIL@may.ie
anne@v2.nl
Anne has worked a.o. as chair lady for the Association of media artists
Amsterdam, co initiator of flying desk Amsterdam, co initiator of the Free
Media Kafe Amsterdam, project coordinator Utrecht School of the arts dept.
interaction design, creative director desk.nl (part time).
marxx@ljudmila.org
http://www.ljudmila.org
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
http://www.insular.net
http://www.world-information.org
jmphilippe@keo.org
jane@cairn.demon.co.uk
jocelyne.Rotily@wanadoo.fr
Nicola Triscott
Nicola Triscott is the director and founder of the Arts Catalyst, the UK's
science-art agency, which has been organising collaborative projects between
scientists and artists since 1993. Its work in space art is principally
concerned with issues of access to specialist environments. Arts Catalyst
set up a collaboration between choreographer Kitsou Dubois and the
Biodynamics Group at Imperial College, led by Prof. Robert Schroter, and
made a successful proposal to the European Space Agency for an experiment,
currently scheduled to take place on the ESA parabolic campaign in October
2001. With Rob La Frenais and Marko Peljhan, she organised - and was a
participant on - a parabolic flight in September 2000 with the Yuri Gagarin
Centre, Star City, which carried Kitsou Dubois and a 5-person team, as well
as other artists and scientists. The Arts Catalyst's 2nd UK Space-Art Forum
in November 2000 in London took the specific theme of art in altered gravity
to encourage more artists to consider working in this environment.
nicola@artscat.demon.co.uk
Web: http://www.artscatalyst.org
Doug Vakoch
Doug Vakoch is the SETI Institute's resident social scientist. His primary
focus is identifying ways that different civilizations might create messages
that could be transmitted across interstellar space. He is particularly interested in how we might compose messages that would begin to express what it's like to be human, in the process creating art projects that are informed by science and technology. In addition to his work in composing interstellar messages, he conducts research on the history of the extraterrestrial life debate, policy issues related to SETI, and possible
psychological and religious responses to detecting a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence. His empirical research in psychology has covered a range of topics in psycholinguistics and psychotherapeutic communication, including studies of the differing worldviews of psychotherapists as well as experiments testing his evolutionary model of speech perception.
dvakoch@seti.org
Chris Welch
Dr Chris Welch is Principal Lecturer in Astronautics and Space Systems at Kingston University in the United Kingdom where his research interests include non-chemical spacecraft propulsion and satellite design and manufacture. He is Chair of the UK's Space Education Council, a Council
Member and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Vice-Chair of the International Space University Affiliate Campus Conference and a member of the IAF Space and Education Committee and the IAA Subcommitte on Art and Literature. A frequent TV and radio broadcaster on astronautics, Chris' only other claims to fame are that he made it the final twenty candidates to fly
to the Mir space station on the UK-USSR Juno mission in 1989 and has written what he believes to be the first ever paper on the design of extraterrestrial gardens.
C.S.Welch@kingston.ac.uk
Neal White
Neal White is currently acting as the Creative Director of Soda, a company
he co-founded after completing an MA at Middlesex University's Centre for
Electronic Arts (Digital Art and Technology) in 1996. Soda develops online
software, fine art and research projects.
Neal has exhibited widely from his own practise, as well as in collaboration
with other members of Soda, recently including; City Racing - London,
Avatar - Museum of Modern Art - Stockholm, Soda - Lux Gallery London, artist
in residence at The Human Genome Mapping Project - Hinxton, Cambridgeshire
and Artlab 5 - Imperial College - London.
Neal is currently working as artist in residence for Soda with Pfizer Ltd,
developing a Bookworks commission with author Lawrence Norfolk, and
undertaking research for the Sterile Environmments project - culminating in
a touring exhibition, 'Clean Room', organised by Arts Catalyst and sponsored
by the Arts Council of England.
neal.white@virgin.net
Arthur Woods
Space Artist, President of the OURS Foundation, Chairman of the Art and
Literature Sub-Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics.
Currently, CEO of Swissart GmbH which developed and manages the Swissart
Network - the Swiss Art Portal as well as other Internet projects
for industry and the European Space Agency. Originator of various
art-in-space projects including the Cosmic Dancer Sculpture (1993) and Ars
Ad Astra: the 1st Art Exhibition in Earth Orbit (1995) both projects
realized on the Mir Space Station.
awoods@spaceart.net
Dragan Zivadinov
Dragan Zivadinov, born 1960, studied theatre and radio directing at the
University of Ljubljana. In 1983 cofounder of the Theatre of the Scipion Nasice Sisters, which was one of the three foundations of the NSK - Neue Slowenische Kunst art movement. In 1987 cofounder of the Cosmokinetical Theatre Red Pilot and in 1989 founder of the Cosmokinetical Cabinet Noordung. Cofounder of the DELAK institute for contemporary theatre research.
Major projects:
1983 retrogarde event Hinkemann
1984 retrogarde event Marija Nablocka
1986 retrogarde event Baptism under Triglav
1987 performance FIAT
1988 performance ZENIT ballet
1988 performance ZENIT drama
1990 performance KAPITAL
1993 ballet NOORDUNG
1995 1:1000000 10 year project
1999 zero gravity performance Biomehanika Noordung
2005 1:1000000 10 year project
2010 1:1000000 10 year project
2015 1:1000000 10 year project
2020 1:1000000 10 year project
2025 1:1000000 10 year project
2030 1:1000000 10 year project
2035 1:1000000 10 year project
2040 1:1000000 10 year project
2045 1:1000000 10 year project
Notes
on Cyberspace Space
Travel
Abstract:
Leonardo Chronology
Abstract:
5 ans avec l'Association des Astronautes Autonomes /
Abstract:
Abstract:
The French AAA forum: http://www.rezoweb.com/forum/technologie/aaaroskoforum/shtml
5 Years with the Association of Autonomous Astronauts France
Alma da Agua: A Space Awareness Initiative - Update
Abstract:
Alma da Agua addresses metaphorically the possibility of greater technical
unification and deeper collaboration of Portuguese speaking countries. It
celebrates their common bond of language, thus helping to create a greater
awareness to facilitate the launch of future collaborative efforts.
Stan VanDerBeek: A Space Art Visionary of the Sixties and Seventies
Abstract:
The EarthViews project: disclosing outer space through cyberspace
Abstract:
In 1998, the EarthViews concept was selected to be part of the education
and outreach activities of a European lunar mission called LunarSat and an
initial feasibility study was performed at the ESA Office for Education
and Outreach at ESTEC. Aimed to revitalise the goal of a definit human
return to the Moon, the LunarSat mission was designed to perform a
detailed mapping of the lunar South Pole region. For the EarthViews
project, the optical cameras onboard the spacecraft would continuously
take images of the Earth and Moon during the 120 days lunar transfer.
These 'EarthViews' images were then to be distributed on the Internet in
near real time, such that people were able to 'virtually' travel along to
the Moon. Travelling on a sophisticated Weak Stability Boundary Transfer
trajectory, the spacecraft would move out of the Earth-Moon system,
revealing unprecedented views of this important region in the outer space
environment.
During my presentation, I will draw on the LunarSat-EarthViews feasibility
study to give an overview of the ideas behind the EarthViews concept.
All EarthViews documents can be downloaded at the following web address:
http://www.tobedetermined.f2s.com
The LunarSat website: http://www.lunarsat.de
Trajectoire fluide (projet en cours) /
Abstract:
Nous avons mis en place un processus d'expérimentation des mouvements dansés dans des environnements ou la gravité est altérée : dans l'eau, sur trampoline et en apesanteur à bord des vols paraboliques.
L'objectif est :
- de travailler sur la perception de l'espace interne du corps, en relation avec l'espace externe . De ce rapport à la matière va surgir un état d'être du corps (corps et mental). Des corps d'hommes et de femmes avec des densités différentes, gardant leur masse mais modifiant leur rapport à la gravité et à la matière. De ces confrontations vont naître un espace poétique où l'image vidéo est toujours présente, puisqu'elle est notre mémoire ;
- de réfléchir en fonction du lieu et plus précisément des systèmes de projections à l'émergence de cet espace poétique directement lié à la perception du corps du danseur ;
- d'expérimenter des formes de représentation qui tenterait de réduire les barrières de langage qui existent pour la compréhension d'un travail plurisdisciplinaire ;
- trouver une parole sur l'expérience vécue, un écrit, des images pour exister aussi dans les colloques ou dans des articles ;
- inviter artistes et scientifiques qui sont dans le même type de recherche a des rencontres, des échanges et éventuellement des collaborations.
Abstract:
For this work, Kitsou Dubois proposed experimental processes of danced movements in altered gravity environments : water, trampoline, zero G during parabolic flights.
The aim is :
- to work on the perception of the internal body space in relationship with the outside space ;
- to work on the emergence of the poetic space strongly related to the perception of the body of the dancer in relation to the space and more precisely in relation to the projections systems ;
- to experiment new forms of representation to try to bridge the gap between the different "languages spoken" in a multidisciplinaray programme :
- to "translate" what has been experienced into writtings so that it can be shared ;
- to invite artists and scientists working in the same area of reseach to share their experiences in seminars and developp new collaborations.
Fluid Trajectory (current project)
Recent Images From the TRACE Mission
Abstract:
ZeroG and VE: Responses to a Transformed Physics
Abstract:
The Motion In Zero Gravity Project (MzG)
Abstract:
A collaboration exploring the inside and outside 'dimensions' described by the human body within the spatial environment of zero gravity and technology. The team is conducting an experiment in sensory orientation using a pair of I-Glasses and programmed graphics which will monitor the body's ability to percieve what is up and what is down.
We are working in two main areas : motion and perception, using the point of contact between the body and technology.
Through close examination of the data-processed phantas , movements and flows of the visible and invisible body are given access to visual qualities as well as interpreted in a numerical formula.
By interfacing the technological being with the need to escape gravity, the transformation of perceived orientation within the physical and virtual space is monitored and scanned to describe multiple dimensional positions and occurrences.
The ZgAL is working with MzG as an outlet for art projects and events. NASA requires the that SFAI MzG team focus purely on the scientific project
At the last space art event in San Francisco in October 2000, titled 'So you wanna be an Astronaut?', Richard Lowenberg said that "It is the ability of people to work together" which is the key to intergrating the artists into space programs. Lorelei explores these points of contact through her work and her social sculptures attempt to push through the imaginary boundries between people.
Lorelei Lisowsky is the founder and director of the Zero-g Arts Lab in San Francisco and is also one of the team members of the MzG project who will be conducting the experiment and hopefully negotiating artwork on board the KC-135 in zero gravity.
The Team will be flying at the beginning of March 2001 at the Johnson Kennedy Space Center in Housten Texas, and documentation of the event, the experiment and artwork will be available by the end of March 2001.
Floating Into a New Century
Abstract:
art&d, r&d in zero G
Abstract:
Involved parties / people so far:
- Arts catalyst
- Arts council
- V2
- Marko Peljhan
- Dragan Zivadinov
- Star City
- Russian artists
Project Galileo: A View From the Bridge
Management of Zero Gravity Parabolic Experiments in the Artistic Field (4 fligths - 1 year - 2 countries) - Prospects, Developments
KEO, The Space Time Capsule, Up Date
Abstract:
Hence: Expanding message collection by two years would permit human
representatively requested by KEO universal vocation. New partnerships set up with international organizations such as I.F.H.R, UNESCO, the French Embassies worldwide network, will speed up collecting messages in the southern hemisphere.
The reproportioning of the KEO space time capsule in process at the moment
by E.A.D.S and C.N.E.S, will allow a significant reduction in the various protective shields dimension leading to a reduction of mass and size of the capsule.
KEO's final specific dimensions will be known in the next month.
Astro Noughts and Ones: Artificial Life in Space
Abstract:
The Spirit and Power of Water
Abstract:
Willing to make one's contribution on such a relevant issue, Leonardo/OLATS/VIRTUAL AFRICA, in collaboration with the RIVER FESTIVAL and FLUIDARTS, has launched a multicultural and interdisciplinary 3-year project focused on the cultural and scientific context of water: "THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF WATER" (http://www.olats.org/africa/projets/gpEau/introGPEau.shtml)
The project is divided into 2 sections:
* The first one, untitled "The Spirit of Water" examines the role of water in the artist's creation, and will show how the element of water is most often perceived as the dwelling place of an ambivalent, magic, and mysterious world. In Africa, for instance, the Dogon say that water is inhabited by NOMMO, a spirit they revere and fear since he can bring rain and prosperity as well as drougth and misery.
* The second section - "The Power of Water" - addresses more scientific issues. Various questions will be considered such as: What can be done to preserve our natural resources of water and distribute them in a more equitable way? How can we struggle against risks of pollution and Epidemics? Some recent research indicate that water can also be found on Mars, and the new images collected by the Galileo spacecraft proved that water under a liquid form may have possibly existed on this satellite. So the question is: How these investigations can help resolve some of our
water problems?
"THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF WATER" Is opened to scientists and artists of all
countries and disciplines. A whole range of activities (online and offline) are planned:
* An exhibition online in the VIRTUAL AFRICA's website (http://www.olats.org/africa/avva.shtml)
For more information, please do contact : Jocelyne Rotily:
Jocelyne.Rotily@wanadoo.fr
Postal address: 174 Bis, rue Jean Mermoz, 13008 Marseilles, France.
* A first seminar which will take place in the Museum of African and Oceanian Arts (EHESS), in Marseilles (France) : on November 5, and 6, 2001.
* A selection of articles and artworks will be published in the "Leonardo"
journal of arts and sciences (published by MIT Press).
Nicola Triscott and Rob La Frenais
Orbital Environments
Abstract:
Other Spaces: Heterotopic Possibilities of Space Art
Abstract:
SFC - An Internet-Based Space Art Project
Abstract:
Applying this approach artistically, the intention is to stage an internet-based event, disseminating outcomes electronically. Selected artists will be placed in enclosed environments. Limited as to size and mass of their materials, the 'artonauts' have 24 hours to work. Throughout, their activities will be broadcast by webcam and also monitored/task-set by a central 'mission control, their only external contact.
Sterile Environments - contamination, containment, isolation and validation
Abstract:
The ultimate 'clean' or 'sterile' environment could easily be imagined within
a timeless state in the vacuum of outer space, or at the heart of a
mathematical model or simulation in the memory of a microchip. Yet it is the
contaminated, unclean physical world which we each inhabit.
The artistic enquiry is then shaped by this notion of a perfect, clean space
or model, and whether it can inform artistic practices which so often rely
on form and space, created in the studio, gallery or physically contaminated
world.
Innovative Technologies From Science Fiction for Space Applications
Abstract:
Dragan Zivadinov and Dunja Zupancic
Biomehanika Noordung - Biomechanics Noordung
Abstract: