Week 9: Space and Art

 Week 9 Space + Art

This week’s guest speaker Richelle Gribble introduced a lot about the connection between art and space to me. I have been aware of the necessary relationship between art and science for a while now, but I keep thinking of the relationship as mostly one sided. Noting the ways that art benefits the scientific process, in the form of presentation, models, etc. 

 

Hearing Gribble talk about how some of her projects and fellow artists are benefited by their access to space was a first for me. Obviously, I knew that space and been represented in basically every artistic medium, but the physical relationship was new to me.

 

For Example, after the lecture I looked into Gribbles "Planet’s lab" project to try and get a more in-depth understanding of the relationship. They take up little satellites called coves as "Secondary Payloads" and they take pictures of earth. This blew my mind, that these satellites are in space currently, with the sole purpose of contributing to art. Which is much more involved than them just tagging along like in a car or shipping truck, they must be written into the plans extensively. Also, they are not up there for taking calculations or to look at weather patterns or any other scientific contribution. It is a very inspiring thought.

Photo sources

Image 1: Blueprint https://th.bing.com/th/id/R2e735e8e83721ebd4c1094cb8133476f?rik=yuu35ZBLLJbUng&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sorell.dm%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2017%2f07%2fBlueprints.jpg&ehk=WYXTgMLGDeqVt7nvaWE7%2fBpUvx0p5nD%2fdvYEvI21cH4%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw

Image 2: second photo on Gribbles gallery https://www.richellegribble.com/planet-lab

Image 3: Fifth photo in Gribbles gallery https://www.richellegribble.com/planet-labs

Sources

Bonestell - Home. Chesley Bonestell. (n.d.). https://www.bonestell.org/.

cosmic dancer - a space art intervention by arthur woods. The Cosmic Dancer Sculpture - a spaceart intervention on the Mir space station by Arthur Woods. (n.d.). https://www.cosmicdancer.com/.

MARS PATENT. MARS PATENT: Home. (n.d.). http://www.mars-patent.org/index.htm.

Planet Labs. RICHELLE GRIBBLE. (n.d.). https://www.richellegribble.com/planet-labs.

Smith, Y. (2015, January 8). NASA Image of the Day. NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html.