Moon Arts Project
The Moon Arts Group (2008–Present)
The Moon Arts Group envisions creative ways of establishing a link between the Earth and Moon, advances the presence of human culture in space, and facilitates never before realized opportunities for art and exploration. In 2015, Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will send a rover to the Moon in competition for the Google Lunar X Prize. Legendary roboticist and founder of Astrobotic inc., Red Whittaker, has invited a team of artists to join this expedition.
In 2013, Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will send a rover to the Moon in competition for the Google Lunar X Prize. Legendary roboticist and founder of Astrobotic inc., Red Whittaker, has invited a team of artists to join this expedition.
During this mission, the rover will deploy a suite of artworks on the lunar surface – the Moon Arts Project. Lowry Burgess, renowned space artist and professor at Carnegie Mellon, has brought together a large group of international artists, scientists and engineers involved with emerging media, new and ancient technologies as well as hybrid processes. Together they have generated several Space Art projects that fall into three main categories:
- Lunar Performances employ the robot to carry out choreographed activities that will take place on the Moon, as a singular event or series of gestures.
- Lunar Cargo consists of payloads that will permanently reside on the Moon.
- Lunar Interaction exploits high-bandwidth communication with the robot to facilitate sensory links between the Earth and Moon.
Moon Arts: Art, Science and Technology Converging on the Moon from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.
Our Mission
During the first Moon landing, the world stood transfixed in amazement. In the intervening decades, not a single human has set foot on the Moon or traversed the void beyond orbit, leaving the future of space exploration in question.
We need to reawaken the sense of sublime wonder fundamental to our relationship with the Cosmos. Through collaborations between artists, scientists, and engineers we find, in our creative process, ways to overcome the separate languages, logics, and methodologies of our disciplines. Opening a free and inclusive space for dialogues about our place in the universe and responsibilities toward one another here on Earth is central to our agenda at this time.foot on the Moon or traversed the void beyond orbit, leavinto reawaken the sense of sublime wonder fundamental to our relationship with the Cosmos. Through collaborations between artists, scientists, and engineers we find, in our creative process, ways to overcome the separate languages, logics, and methodologies of our disciplines. Opening a free and inclusive space for dialogues about our place in the universe and responsibilities toward one another here on Earth is central to our agenda at this time.
The artists involved with the project are Mark Baskinger, Chris Robinson, Mark Rooker, Dylan Vitone and Matthew Zywica.
Rover Field Test from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.
Press about the Moon Arts Project:
- Brack, Jen. “9,000 Sketches to be Immortalized on the Moon.” psfk, 6/22/2015.
- Cascone, Sarah. “Carnegie Mellon Is Sending an Impossibly Tiny Art Museum to the Moon.” artnet, 7/6/2015.
- Stinson, Liz. “We Sent a Dick Pic to the Moon—And We’re Doing It Again.” Wired, 5/7/2015.
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