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■ What is SPACE ART? ■
It is a new genre established in Europe and America.
It relies on space activity for its implementation and has broad categories. Some examples and details are below.
Styles of Space Art
A) Examples of Space Art Which Have a Variety of Styles
1) Art Works Suitable for Micro-gravity Environment
This art is in space and viewed in space.
If you use a medium such as a video, you can view it from Earth, too.
2) A Satellite as an Art Expression
There is a satellite called KEO built to return to Earth 50,000 years from today.
It will bring back to our far away descendants every message that each and every
one of us is invited to put on board.
3) Pictures which are Taken in Space
New landscapes become accessible through space photography and film. This is
also fine art because it exploits sensory experiences generated through space
exploration.
4) Environment Design in Space
This includes the applied arts such as space architecture, interior design and
furniture design.
5) A Huge Art Work which is Visible from Space
This is an example of art on Earth, viewed from space. An art work on the ground
with some mirrors or other devices to reflect sunlight.
6) Dance in Micro-gravity Environment
This type of dance performance exploits sensory experiences generated through
space exploration.
7) Ceramic Art Made of Lunar Soil
This fine art takes advantage of new materials created or discovered through
space activities.
8) Communication Art Between General Public and Astronauts/Cosmonauts
Fine art like this takes advantage of new technologies. The most important of
these make use of satellite systems to create simultaneous global artworks.
B) Ways to Enjoy
1) People on the earth can look at the micro-gravity artwork as video art or
internet content.
2) Astronauts/cosmonauts experience it firsthand.
3) All people can look at pictures taken in space.
C) Future Possibilities
The role of art is to stimulate the imagination and to enhance the sensitivity of humans. In the near future, when generations of people may be living outside the Earth’s atmosphere, a radical transformation of human values may be possible. Art in space can contribute to this radical transformation by affecting mental and physical health and by creating new perspectives for the people living on Earth and in space.
1) For Artists and General Public
Space art will be to explore new expression.
2) For Astronauts/Cosmonauts
Astronauts/cosmonauts can enjoy it not only in the ISS but also on the Moon
and Mars. It has a possibility to be a type of mental health care.
3) For Space Tourists
The general public will be able to experience Space Arts as an option of space
tourism in the future.
Space Art Definition
Roger F. Malina, Astrophysicist and Executive Editor of Leonardo: The Journal of Art, Science, and Technology defines the term “Space Art” as: “Contemporary art which relies on space activity for its implementation."
He lists seven broad categories:
1.Fine art which exploits sensory experiences generated through space exploration. New landscapes become accessible through space photography and film. Space illustrators anticipated some of these. and make use of the photographic record from space exploration.
2. Art which expresses the new psychological and philosophical conceptions developed through the exploration of space. The primary example of this is the concept of the Earth as a whole system - a concept made concrete by the first views of the whole Earth seen from space.
3. Art in space, viewed from Earth.
4. Art on Earth, viewed from space.
5. Art in space, viewed in space.
6. The applied arts such as space architecture, interior design and furniture design.
7. Fine art which takes advantage of new technologies and materials created through space activities. The most important of these make use of satellite systems to create simultaneous global artworks.