Dear friends and colleagues,
Most art residencies asks for a project and most of the time
on a specific theme. For the Maison Malina Residencies with
Leonardo/Olats I took the opposite approach: no theme, no
topic, no obligation for production of any kind.
The results are quite exciting, I must say. Here the first
one to be announced, more to come!
Enjoy!
Best
Annick
*/Adsum, /**the New Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac to launch
on February 19th 2022.*
/Adsum/ will flyon an Antares 230+ rocket from Wallops
Flight Facility, Virginia, to the International Space Station.
Watch it live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8CmrJFyYt4
Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket
no earlier than 12:39 p.m. EST / 18:39 CET Saturday, Feb.
19, from NASA's spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia.
From the artist's website:
"/Adsum /is a cubic glass sculpture inside of which letters
are laser engraved. The letters are positioned one in front
of the other, thus forming a spatial poem inside the solid
glass cube that can be read in any direction. 'Adsum' means
“I am here” in Latin, as used to indicate that the speaker
is present (equivalent to the exclamation "here!" in a roll
call).
To create this space poem, I developed a new typeface in
which the letter “N” takes the form of an hourglass and the
letter “S” has the shape of the infinity symbol. This is so
in order for the work to be legible from any point of view
within the cube. The two other letters, which stand between
“N” and “S,” are a lowercase “o” and an uppercase “O”
(evoking the Moon and the Earth, respectively). Taken
together, it is always possible to read either NoOS or SOoN
in three dimensions".
https://www.ekac.org/adsum.html
/Adsum/ was publicly presented for the first time at the
EuroMoonMars workshop, November 18-20, 2019,
realized at the European Space Research and Technology
Center (ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands. /
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/Adsum/ will fly to the ISS with the support of the
Stichting Moon Gallery Foundation./
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/Adsum/ was conceived and produced in 2019 during a Maison
Malina Residency in Paris,
curated by Annick Bureaud and organized by Leonardo/Olats
with the support of Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso.
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