Thought this might be of interest . .
as usual, art experts are being consulted--from the
universities!--and not the artists--
"by producing trial works on the ground" . . . ?
(i can hear the background murmur of countless college classes . . ."the
death of the avant-garde: . . . "the end of art" . . . "the end of
experimentalism" . . . and NOW, Post Art Syndrome: "trial art" . . . for
the jury to decide
what will survive . . . elsewhere . . . coming soon to a theater no longer
near you . . . )
--dbc
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from http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/0606cu06.htm
NASDA to study effects of space on creativity
Yomiuri Shimbun
Art will join the hard sciences as a focus of the National Space
Development Agency of Japan's planned research projects in outer
space.
Research on artistic creativity in space is to be conducted both on
the ground and on the International Space Station (ISS), which is
currently under construction in a joint effort by 16 countries,
including Japan.
NASDA expects the research to yield unique works of art because it is
believed that the way humans perceive things can change in space. The
agency also hopes that artistic activities in space could be a way to
alleviate astronauts' stress on lengthy missions aboard the space
station.
NASDA will join with experts from Japanese art universities to
discuss proposals regarding artistic activities for astronauts in
outer space and to test those plans by producing trial works of art
on the ground.
ISS is scheduled to go into operation in 2004. NASDA will start
building its JEM research laboratory in 2002 as a part of the ISS
project.
Missions planned for JEM mainly focus on engineering research and
natural science experiments in zero gravity and studying strong
radioactive rays in space. But artistic creation will now take its
place on the research roster.
Artistic endeavors in space are not unprecedented. Takao Doi made
sketches while aboard the U.S. space shuttle Columbia in November
1997. Chiaki Mukai composed a tanka poem, a traditional Japanese
verse form, during her mission on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery in
October 1998.
Copyright 2000 The Yomiuri Shimbun
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