Art in Orbit

Art Objects and Spaceflight

AvBarbara Brownie,Charissa N. Terranova

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

What role do the visual arts play in the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, and vice versa? This book considers the relationship between art practice and space science, presenting new methodologies for art-sci collaboration informed by non-terrestrial contexts. Regarded widely as an irreverent luxury accessible to only a select few, commercial space exploration seems an unlikely setting for contemporary art practice. However, faced with the inevitability of this developing industry and the new environments it presents, a new field of creative practice is emerging. In Art in Orbit design theorist Barbara Brownie argues that these new environments offer novel opportunities that are yet to be fully recognized by the creative industries.Throughout the book, Brownie explores the contexts, questions, challenges and opportunities for creative exploration of form, materials, and the body, in space. Drawing on original research in the STEAM subjects, the book highlights how artists, engineers, and theorists have begun working in close collaboration to reconsider practices that have been taken for granted throughout the history of art practice, demonstrating how ideas about orientation, weight, balance, and the familiar behaviours of art and craft materials are all radically altered in the microgravity of orbital space.The research presented is supplemented by 9 original case studies from sculpture, craft, performance, and land art, together with exclusive interviews with artists who have produced work for space. Taking an original, critical approach to the spaceflight sector, Art in Orbit sets out to define a new field of artistic practice and the real-world impact of art-sci collaboration. It provides a template for developing new narrative strategies for space projects which will engage artists, scientists, and collaborative teams from across disciplines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-10
Mått:162 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt:660 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350451735

Utforska kategorier

Konstteori inom Kultur
Designböcker inom Kultur
Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Barbara Brownie is Assistant Dean of the School of Communication at the Royal College of Art, UK. She investigates the potential for space as a site for creative practice through research and collaborations within the arts and spaceflight industries. Her last book, Spacewear (Bloomsbury, 2019) explored the effects of microgravity on the dressed body.

Recensioner i media

Brownie’s book is a comprehensive and incisive survey of outer space art. It follows art across the atmospheric border between Earth and the sky, and shines a light on our aesthetic possibilities in the cosmic dark.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures Introduction: Art in OrbitChapter 1: Art in the Commercial Space AgeFrom astroart to space artHumankind in the era of commercial spaceflightTowards a new definition of space artCase Study 1: Trevor Paglen, Orbital Reflector, 2018 Case Study 2: Yasmine Meroz and Liat Segal, Impossible Object, 2022Chapter 2: Science First, Art LaterArt in the space sectorWhy is space art important?Barriers to success in art/space collaborationsCase study 3: Max Baraitser Smith, Lunar Bureau of Weights and Measures, 2021Chapter 3: Post-gravity Thinking: How weightlessness changes everything“Entirely different foundations”: Normogravity is not normal in the universeThe arts in microgravityRepresenting microgravity on EarthCase Study 4: Lisa Pettibone, Verdant, 2022Chapter 4: New HorizonsThe view from above“There is no upright in space”: Abandoning what we know about orientationNew approaches to orientationCase Study 5: Eyal Gever, #Laugh, 2017Case Study 6: Eduardo Kac, Télescope Intérieur (2017) and Ágora (1986-2024)Chapter 5: Touching the VoidPerforming weightlessnessThe void: Infinite and intimate spacesMaking contactCase Study 7: Jeanne Morel, Art in Space, 2016-presentChapter 6: Making Space for ExperimentsSpace and craft“The magic of things going where no mathematics model has gone before”Experiments for future generationsCase Study 8: Alexis Hope, Space/Craft, 2019Case Study 9: Sana Sharma, Fluid Expressions, 2020-2022Conclusion: Finding Space for ArtistsAppendix: Timeline of SpaceworksReferencesIndex