can now tell the whole story about the project
Have had to wait quite a while to let it be known that this is not an "experiment" or hypothetical theory.
The project has been in early development since long before I was in the Cultural Utilization of Space Exploration conference many months ago now. I had to wait until the report to the european space agency was made public to talk of the project itself.
The project may well be one of the most ambitious artworks ever attempted as well as pushing into newer territory on a couple of fronts. The artwork will essentially span the earth in a circle of cities of spaces beneath the international space station's orbit as well as on the iss itself and in museum kiosks in different parts of the world.
It will be quite a task but also what my work to this point has built to.
would love any comments but the world of blogs tends to be one of reading......would be nice though...
FLOATING POINTS PROJECT SHORTLISTED FOR POTENTIAL WORK WITH EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
A CULTURAL POLICY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
The Arts Catalyst's Report to the European Space Agency
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/ISS.html
In 2005, the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded the The
Arts Catalyst in London a contract to carry out a study into
possible future cultural utilisation of the International
Space Station.
The study set out to investigate and focus the interest of
the cultural world in the International Space Station, to
generate a policy for involving cultural users in the
International Space Station programme in the longer term and
to develop a representative set of ready-to-implement
demonstrator projects in arts, culture and media. Under the
lead of the Arts Catalyst (GB), the study team also
comprises Association Leonardo- Olats (F) and Delta Utec
(NL), with the MIR network.
The Arts Catalyst submitted its report to the European Space
Agency in early 2006. It is still to be approved by ESA,
however permission has been given to makes its contents public
