Extremophiles
dal 18/9/2003 al 19/9/2003
Segnalato da
Royal Institution of Great Britain
18/9/2003
Extremophiles
Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
Surviving in Space. This compelling conference, taking place in the Royal Institution's beautiful historic Faraday lecture theatre where Faraday demonstrated the world's first electric transformer brings together artists, scientists and cosmonauts to debate about long-term human spaceflight as a cultural as well as scientific issue.
Surviving in Space
The Arts Catalyst's 3rd International Science & Art Conference. In
association with the ICA
Join the Arts Catalyst for an afternoon of stimulating debate and evening
of performance on Friday 19th September 2003 2.00 - 9.30 pm at the Royal
Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1.
This compelling conference, taking place in the Royal Institution's
beautiful historic Faraday lecture theatre where Faraday demonstrated the
world's first electric transformer brings together artists, scientists
and cosmonauts to debate about long-term human spaceflight as a cultural
as well as scientific issue.
With the long journey to Mars and back increasingly preoccupying the space
industry and space medicine, some of the debates within the art and
technology world about the human body have become increasingly mirrored.
For long-term space travel should we create artificial environments to
cocoon the body? Or transform the body into a space faring cyborg,
augmenting and converting it for weightlessness?
Chaired by BBC science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, the outstanding line
up of speakers includes Russian Cosmonaut and ISS Soyuz Commander Yuri
Gidzenko; visionary technology artist Marko Peljhan, founder of the
Slovenian Space Agency and the Makrolab project (Venice Biennale 2003,
Documenta X); president of the Mars Society Bo Maxwell, NASA advisor and
Mars expert Dr Kevin Fong; science fiction writer Rachel Armstrong, author
of x{2018}Gray's Anatomy'; and Tracey Warr, author of x{2018}The Artist's Body'.
Spanish electronic artist Marcelli Antunez Roca will give a
performance-presentation, Transpermia, of his Project Daedalus, which took
place this year on zero gravity flights organized by Arts Catalyst with
the Russian space agency.
The Arts Catalyst, founders of the MIR International Network for Space
Art, has been exploring the ideas of human spaceflight and taking artists
and scientists on zero gravity flights with the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Centre in Russia for the past four years.
Funded by the European Commission Culture 2000, Arts Council of England,
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Individual bookings to tickets@ica.org or call the box office on 00 44 207
930 3647, group bookings 00 44 207 375 3690.
Royal
Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1