Less Remote

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Less Remote was a two day symposium organised by Flis Holland and The Arts Catalyst at the International Astronautical Congress, where artists, thinkers and writers met to discuss the future of space exploration. The symposium aimed to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities.

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Episodes of Less Remote

    • Play Finding Time in Google Earth, Chris Speed - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Finding Time in Google Earth, Chris Speed

      Part of: LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration An Arts & Humanities Symposiumwww.artscatalyst.org ABSTRACT This paper identifies problems associated with how networked earth visualisation technologies affect our understanding of our local and global environment, and presents a critical and creative opportunity for space science and exploration to remedy them. Through an analysis of a series of applications of the Google and Yahoo mapping API's (Application Programming Interface), the a...

      • Release date
        Nov 23, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:21
    • Play Extraterrestrial Ethics, Andy Miah - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Extraterrestrial Ethics, Andy Miah

      This paper outlines a moral commitment to future species, which encompasses manufactured, by-products of humanity, along with the development of new life forms by synthetic biology, enhanced humans and non-human animals, and the possible discovery of new life forms (both native to Earth and foreign). It fashions the concept of extraterrestrial ethics as a critical response to and extension of bioethics and environmental ethics, where the emerging language of ecosystem health expresses a broad ...

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        10:38
    • Play Yelling At Stars, Nicky Forster & Willoh Weiland - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Yelling At Stars, Nicky Forster & Willoh Weiland

      Yelling at Stars - Australia's first interstellar message - is a cross discipline art/science project taking place in Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Next Wave Festival 2008. This paper will present the artists' findings based on each phase of the project from research and development, to performance and audience feedback. Supported by the Australian Network for Art and Technology through its Professional Development Travel Fund.

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:07
    • Play Desiring Mission, Andrew Stones - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Desiring Mission, Andrew Stones

      Empty territories have often seemed to be a prerequisite for the big performances of human progress. Today, the New Worlds which await are not the terrestrial ones of Lewis and Clarke, or Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, but the video-surface of Mars, the Hubble Deep Field. Unlike any on Earth, these terrains seem culturally uncontested, open to any reading anyone might want to project onto them. The desiring imagination alone might be satisfied with visualizations, simulations, virtual realitie...

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:00
    • Play A New Culture in Space, Takuro Osaka - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      A New Culture in Space, Takuro Osaka

      The vastness and mystery of the universe, transcending time and space, is a theme that has existed since antiquity, and has been represented by ancient monuments, religious sites, Japanese tea-rooms and gardens, and the like. The other theme in space art has been experimented with mainly in western Europe since the latter half of the 20th century: art that will unfold in space (zero gravity). This presentation will consider Osaka's artistic experiments in this field, and the potential of art a...

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:22
    • Play Art from Atlantica Mission, Sarah Jane Pell - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Art from Atlantica Mission, Sarah Jane Pell

      Pell will speak on her artistic and scientific involvement in the longest ever human undersea durational mission ever attempted, Atlantica. A custom-built facility called the Leviathan Habitat is to be submerged off the coast of Florida. This presentation posits the Atlantica mission as an innovative platform for discussing new modes of being, strategies of technicity and the aesthetics of care and operation from within an analogue to future outer space habitat missions.

      • Release date
        Nov 26, 2008
      • Runtime
        05:30
    • Play Garments for Reduced Gravity Environments, Mark Timmins - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Garments for Reduced Gravity Environments, Mark ...

      Fashion has a rich history of engaging with representations of space: during the space fever of the 1960s, fashion designers Courreges and Cardin explored new materials and silhouettes to transform gravity-laden mortals with some of the cachets and sparkles of space exploration. What will future space tourists (and staff) be clad in? The answer lies in the hands of a new generation of designers who will create garments that react to zero and microgravity. Jets of air, magnets, shape memory all...

      • Release date
        Nov 26, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:53
    • Play The Other Place, Kirsten Johannsen - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      The Other Place, Kirsten Johannsen

      Going to Mars is widely considered to be the next logical step in human space exploration. The paper suggests that art production for long-term spaceflights will extend the artistic process on a technical as well as on an intellectual level, because artists will have to develop modified metaphors which question the non-orientated space as the other place. This will also imply the development of new design forms based on the unique interaction of the floating artwork and the floating astronaut ...

      • Release date
        Nov 26, 2008
      • Runtime
        04:32
    • Play Interstellar Message Composition, Doug Vakoch - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Interstellar Message Composition, Doug Vakoch

      An overview of the work of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute.

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        03:32
    • Play Political Culture and National Space Policy, Iain Bolton - Less Remote on Blip Less Remote episodes on Blip

      Political Culture and National Space Policy, Iai...

      This paper examines the influence of political culture in the area of national space policy. Significant and substantive elements of the US space programme cannot be explained without acknowledging the influence of American political ideology and the country's collective self-image.

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:19
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