[Noisebridge-discuss] Zero Gravity Arts Consortium's Arts In Space Exploration Video Screening - May 29, 2011 - San Francisco International Arts Festival

Wed May 11 16:52:24 UTC 2011

Hi Noisebridge.......This will be a great space art event, please help spread the word. Thanks ~ Walter

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/157826FT Student General Admission - $16.00Senior General Admission - $16.00 General Admission - $20.00 
FOR INFORMATION VISIT:http://www.sfiaf.org/2011Festival/artists/zerogravity.html

San Francisco, CA, March 7, 2011
- The Zero Gravity Arts Consortium (ZGAC) San Francisco Premiere Arts,
Humanities and Culture in Space Exploration Documentary Screening
Program will present a series of videos that are sure to amaze San
Francisco International Arts Festival 2011 audiences as they learn
about a pioneering group of artists and performers working within this
21st Century new genre of arts in space exploration.  From microgravity
mobiles, dance and paintings created in zero gravity to drawings
created on the surface of the Moon created by a robotic rover that will
fly to and deploy a suite of artworks on the Moon these artists are
creating collaborations among space scientists, engineers and
astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS).  
San
Francisco interdisciplinary artist, Frank Pietronigro, curates this San
Francisco Premiere program that will be presented on Sunday, May 29,
2011, at 2:00 p.m. at the South Side Theatre, Fort Mason Center,
Building D, 3rd Floor in San Francisco, California, as a part of the
San Francisco International Arts Festival, running May 18 to June 5,
2011.  Created by a cadre of international artists, who work at the
interdisciplinary nexus of the arts and space sciences, the program
will also present international videos from Austria, Columbia, France,
Japan, the Netherlands, the Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United
States.  
Today,
a new breed of artists who wish to work in zero gravity space, on the
International Space Station and on missions to the Moon differentiate
their movement from 'space art' by calling it ‘arts in space’ in order
to better convey their methodological intentions to work directly with
spaceflight technology.  Some of these artists express themselves
within the unique conditions of alternating gravity space, produced
during parabolic flights flown in France, Japan, Russia and the United
States.  Documentaries will feature dancers performing in zero gravity,
floating poetry and 'drift paintings' created under weightless
conditions including works flown on Zero Gravity Corporation’s flight
created during ZGAC SKY STUDIO: Parabolic Flights For Artists. 
Another
video showcases an epic arts science collaboration that took place
among artists, musicians, video editors on the ground and astronauts
living aboard the International Space Station titled, I See The Earth and It Is Beautiful, features Commander Peggy Whitson and Crewmember Garrett Reisman of the 16th Expedition of the International Space Station. 
In
addition to parabolic arts video documentation of amazing new artworks
scheduled to be flown, in 2013, to the Moon will be presented by the
Moon Arts Group at the STUDIO For Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon
University.  Moon Arts Group documentary will feature projects
including: the Moon Bell that will use radio waves, telescopes,
and emerging computer software to create a sound from the Earth to the
Moon and back again; the Moon Ark-Reliquary that integrates
four independently described payloads into one extraordinary and highly
significant billion-year enduring payload; the Moon Ark-Reliquary
where the ashes of the dead, the nano-micro DNA of life on Earth, the
gathered waters of the world will be sent to the Moon in carbon
nano-tubes, and the Fragrance for the Moon with surrounding poetry – all in an integrated extraordinarily beautiful container affixed to the Lunar Lander pedestal, the landing platform of the Tranquility Trek robot, and Moon Marks where the Rover's tracks are used to delineate drawings on the surface of the Moon.  Other projects such as Earth Tapestry, See Me on the Moon, Hear Me on the Moon, Touch the Moon, Moon Fragrance, The Well-Wishing Ring and Moon Poems further embody various senses.
From
Japan, Ishiguro Setsuko and the Ishiguro Dance Theatre will showcase
Hiten: Zero Gravity Dance as flown in zero gravity space and on the
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency 'KIBO' module of the
International Space Station, the captivating and poetic work presents
dancers, shown floating in mid-air during parabolic flight.  The work
employs direct references to Dunhuang Cave Art while analyzing the
physical characteristics and dance postures of these figures of Hiten
in microgravity space.  Hiten are flying deities in the Buddhist
tradition have their origins in India from where they were brought to
Japan through China along the Silk Road.  
Internationally
acclaimed choreographer and France's preeminent artists working with
dancers in zero gravity, Kitsou Dubois's 'Matières Chorégraphiques'
offers captivating footage of experimental dance movements in altered
gravity conditions of parabolic flight.  Also from France, 'Exploring
New Territories!' comes to San Francisco direct from Paris’s
International @rt Outsiders Festival held at the Maison Européenne de
la Photographie in Paris, France, curated by Jean-Luc Soret.  
One
video short from Austria '2050-Living on Mars: Children Design Future
Habitats' is created by children, aged seven to twelve years, who
express their vision of future living on other planets as created
during a workshop held at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT) in
the frame of the Vienna Children’s University.  In "The Misadventures
of Moon Kitty' director DeWayne Austin creates a novel and colorful
video featuring the curious antics of a violin playing mother cat who
lives on the moon with her kitten.  She fends off meteors and fiendish
dinosaurs while spreading the aurora all over the universe while
delighting children of all ages.
'Moonkiss'
by Lyalya Lisowska, representing the United States and the Ukraine,
challenges present day common thought that space travel is a
contemporary activity, Moonkiss delves into the theory of ancient space
astronauts who may have changed and effected our early human
civilization forever. By kissing in zero gravity we re-enact the
rituals of our space forbearers.  
In
'Genoa Remote Guidance System For The Blind' artist, Edward Gallagher,
will demonstrate an amazing remote guidance system he invented as he
prepares for parabolic flight where he plans to create a puzzle
sculpture for the Blind in Parabolic Flight through utilizing his
invention the Genoa Remote Guidance System For The Blind.  Gallagher’s'
bird sculptures will fly along with the artist within a zero gravity
environment while not only illustrating the ability of the Genoa Remote
Guidance System for the Blind to be utilized in space; but, also
represent the freedom of flight that previously only birds in an
Earthly environment could experience.
Representing
both The Netherlands and the United States, Bradley Pitts in
collaboration with Projekt Atol Flight Operations and the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Center, in Star City, Moscow offers 'Singular
Oscillations' an arts in zero gravity collaboration during which the
entire cabin of a Russian IL76-MDK jet aircraft is cleared except for
Bradley Pitts, the artists, who is allowed to float and fall freely
with their eyes closed, ears blocked, and naked. 
Award
winning aerial artist and avant-garde cabaret performer from the United
Kingdom, Empress Stah will perform her aerial dance 'Stah-Lite in
Space' along with showcasing her music video short of her singing and
flying aerobatic 'Loop the Loop's' with her dad in a World War II
Romanian Yak aircraft.  Empress states, "This flying in Space thing, It
is in my blood!"
LOBBY VIDEO INSTALLATIONS INCLUDE:
"Spaceforms: Homage
to Homer" by Walter Funk of Hologlyphics is a video installation
featuring stereoscopic video, viewed without 3D glasses honoring the
space exploration work of Homer B. Tilton, scientist, mathematician,
and 3D-display pioneer. 
'360
Degrees' by Frank Pietronigro offers a San Francisco Premiere
showcasing an Art in Spaces video installation celebrating the 13th
Anniversary of Frank Pietronigro’s first parabolic flight, when the
artist flew in weightlessness from the NASA Johnson Space Center on
April 4, 1998 while creating ‘drift paintings’ as scientific research
while featuring Chiori Santiago, arts advocate and writer, who flew as
a part of the artist's team as In-flight Journalist presented by the
artist in memorial of Chiori Santiago.
'Drift:
29 Days, 18 Hours, 2 Minutes' by world renowned artist, Michael Light
showcasing abstract lunar imagery based upon the Hasselblad Apollo
orbital photographs.

WHAT IS A PARABOLIC FLIGHTDuring
a parabolic flight, specially trained pilots fly the parabolic flight
maneuvers between approximately 24,000 and 32,000 feet altitude in
order to create the weightless space in which some of these artists
work.  The jet aircraft is flown somewhat like a roller coaster in that
the plane is initially pulled up to approximately 45 degrees ‘nose
high' and then the plane is ‘pushed over’ to begin the zero gravity
segments of the parabolas. For the next 25 – 30 seconds everything in
the plane is weightless.
PLUS SPECIAL FEATURE VIDEO SHORTS INCLUDING:
ARTS IN SPACE: ON THE GROUNDFrom
Japan, "Space Fashion Meets Fashion Week New York City!' created by
Misuzu Onuki and Chuck Lauer offers the audience a video collage
featuring a space fashion catwalk show held at the Feb 2009 Fashion
Week show at the Waldorf Astoria.
ARTS IN THE SKY ON PARABOLIC FLIGHTSZGAC: SKY STUDIOSan Francisco premier of ZGAC'S SKY STUDIO: Parabolic Flight For Artists, that was flown as a part of the 25th
International Space Development Conference co-sponsored by the National
Space Society and the Planetary Society.   Zero Gravity Corporation
flew this parabolic flight on May 2006, Los Angeles.  SKY STUDIO Video
Documentation includes: Lowry Burgess’s monumental work, ‘The Seed of
the Infinite Absolute’ floated in microgravity above Los Angeles,
generating brilliant flashes of light as it transits from OG to 2Gs. It
is formed by an elaborate series of processes and distillations
created, in different global climates, over the past 25 years.  Its
shell, a geometrically complex, hand size ‘seed’ is a fusion of the 12
‘royal’ metals.  It contains a unified emulsion of the essences of 44
trees, 52 flowers, 36 waters, 32 bloods and 120 telepathic hopes
representing, in essence, the entire Earth.  Pietornigro's microgravity
poetry work Taking Time To Read and Flags in Space a zero gravity
performance where the artists danced a Rainbow flag and an American
flag.
ZGAC: Gravity PulseThe
audience will also be educated, during a closing panel discussion, to
ways in which they too can participate in ZGAC zero gravity flight
programs.  Plans for ZGAC: Gravity Pulse Parabolic Flight For Artists
will be showcased, during the screening along with a concluding panel
discussion offered as a way to enroll greater audience participation,
on zero gravity flights for artists, scientists and prospective ZGAC
Gravity Pulse flight sponsors and affiliate partners.  This historic
flight on Zero Gravity Corporation’s jet is an interactive,
interdisciplinary, multicultural, and intergenerational flight where
artists representing cultures from around the world will fly projects.
The flights include a mother-daughter performance and a research
project that considers transpersonal psychology and its significance
for creative practice while utilizing digital aura photograph.  Artists
will also utilize new video imaging technologies, such as a panospheric
lens that provides images in 360 degrees, while investigating
alternative means for documenting art projects created during parabolic
flight.  An international team of experts in the fine arts, web
casting, psychology, history, and cultural theory will also fly with
curators, writers, space scientists, and engineers collaborating on
cutting-edge arts in space projects whose concepts are defining this
new art movement of zero-gravity arts.
 ART ON THE MOON: THE MOON ARTS GROUPThe
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University was invited
by Astrobotics Inc. to join in the robotic Google Lunar X PRIZE
competition with legendary roboticist Red Whittaker and his team at the
Robotics Institute.  Lowry Burgess, arts in space pioneer, formed the
Carnegie Mellon artistic team called the Moon Arts Group. The Moon Arts
Group has created artistic concepts based upon establishing links
between the Earth and the Moon.  
ARTS IN OUTER AND INNER SPACE'Magnetic
Movement' by Melissa Adams of Workspace Artists Studio, was inspired by
an invitational commissioned poster contest from National Aeronautics
and Space Association, the California Space Grant Consortium and the
San Francisco Art Institute.  The work serves as a metaphor for a
global transportation system symbiotic with Earth.  
Also
from The Netherlands Antonio Jose Guzman offers 'The Day We Surrender
to the Air (Episode Two)' where the artist uses himself as an example
of the migration between the so-called Old and New Worlds tracking the
evolutions of his identity through the spaces of his ancestors'
traveling experiences throughout Polynesia, Eurasia, Mesopotamia,
Africa and eventually to America and Europe. His work implies that his
genetic identity is based on the various Diasporas of his ancestors,
and thus on the decisions they made in migrating to some place or to
another.  Surrendering to the air means floating.  His trip around the
world and quest to find himself opens up a wider perspective on the
countless surprising connections between the people of all continents.
This
screening is produced by ZGAC in collaboration with affiliate partners
including: Golden Star Productions, the San Francisco International
Arts Festival 2011, the Space Arts Development Fund of the National
Space Society and The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at the College of
Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University.   A portion of the proceeds from
the screening support the Space Arts Development Fund fiscally
sponsored by the National Space Society.  ZGAC is an international
space arts organization dedicated to fostering greater access for
artists to space flight technology and zero gravity space through the
creation of international partnerships with space agencies, space
industry entrepreneurs, arts and science organizations and leading
universities. 
SPECIAL DISCOUNTED TICKETS AVAILABLE TO APRIL 1ST ONLY:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/157826
FOR INFORMATION VISIT:http://www.sfiaf.org/2011Festival/artists/zerogravity.html
San Francisco International Arts Festivalwww.sfiaf.org/2011/
Zero Gravity Arts Consortiumwww.zgac.org
Space Arts Development Fundhttp://isdc.nss.org/2007/spaceart.html
STUDIO For Creativity, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon Universityhttp://www.cmu.edu/studio/
Frank Pietronigrowww.pietronigro.com
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San Francisco International Arts FestivalMay 18 to June 5, 2011.
ZGAC: Arts, Humanities and Culture in Space Exploration Documentary Video Screening ProgramSunday, May 29, 20112:00 PM PTSouth Side Theatre, Fort Mason Center, Building D, 3rd FloorSan Francisco, CaliforniaUnited States
PRIMARY SPONSORSSan Francisco International Arts Festivalhttp://www.sfiaf.org/2011Festival/
PRIMARY SPONSORSSan Francisco International Arts Festival - http://www.sfiaf.org/2011Festival/ Zero Gravity Arts Consortium - www.zgac.orgAFFILIATE PARTNERSGolden Star ProductionsSpace Arts Development Fund of the National Space Society - http://isdc.nss.org/2007/spaceart.htmlSTUDIO for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University - http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/Lowry
Burgess, George Whitesides and Frank Pietronigro created the Space Arts
Development fund during as an international resource for funding the
arts in space community.  The fund supports space artists and their
projects, residencies, and interdisciplinary collaborations and is
fiscally sponsored by the National Space Society.  Arts in space
exploration enthusiasts, foundations, non-profit sources, corporate and
private donors are encouraged to support this fund as one way of
fostering the expansion of cultural activities in space exploration.
ABOUT ZGACwww.zgac.orgZGAC
is the first organization of its kind, based in the United States that
is facilitating parabolic flight projects, conferences that will help
in the international effort to set the stage for teams of artists to
have permanent access to work on space transportation systems including
the International Space Station.  ZGAC supports arts, humanities and
culture in space education, international outreach and conference
programs that are organized as ways for artists, from all over the
globe, to affiliate with ZGAC and experience the possibilities of
collaborating with space flight technologists.  Co-Founded in 1999 by
Laura Knott, Lorelei Lisowsky and Frank Pietronigro.
INTERNATION ARTS IN SPACE ORGANIZATIONS (Partial List)Other
organizations playing key roles in arts in space advocacy work,
including the Arts Catalyst, the International Association of
Astronomical Artists, International Astronautical Federation's
Technical Activities Committee for the Cultural Utilization of Space,
Leonardo OLATS, Leonardo Magazine the International Society of Arts,
Science and Technology, Space Art One, the Sky Arts group formed by
Otto Piene at the Center For Advanced Visual Studies at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the ZGAC.
ABOUT FRANK PIETORNIGRO, Program Curatorwww.pietronigro.comFrank
Pietronigro is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and author;
co-founder of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium; West Coast
representative of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine
Arts, Carnegie Mellon University; Yuri’s Night Bay Area Production Team
Member; and professor in the Web Design New Media Department at the
Academy of Art University.  He has achieved international acclaim as
the first American painter to create "drift paintings" as a part of
'Research Project Number 33: Investigating the Creative Process in a
Microgravity Environment' developed as a part of NASA’s Reduced Gravity
Student Flight Program created in collaboration with the San Francisco
Art Institute, the Texas and California Space Grant Consortia.
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