From: Bruce Sterling [bruces@well.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:33 PM

Subject: Viridian Note 00336: Zero-Gravity Art

Key concepts:

art, zero gravity, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, MIR campaign, Arts Catalyst, Leonardo, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Projekt Atol, V2_Organisation, Spectre list

Attention Conservation Notice:

Yes this Viridian Note is out of order since 00337 has already been mailed. Furthermore, this Note is about a far-out Russo-European art scheme at a cosmonaut training center.

Entries in the Biofuture Robot Dog Contest:

From: Laura Sterling
http://www.viridiandesign.org/contests/laura.html

From: Mark Simpkins <mark*nodalpoints.org>
http://www.nodalpoints.org/viridian/index.html

From: Paul Jimenez <pj*place.org>
http://www.place.org/~pj/ROVER.txt

"Here's the rough verbage for a brochure that Lassiecorp has planned: 'The ROVER Project.'"

This contest ends September 30, 2002.

Link: Renewable Energy Roundup this weekend! Be there or be square, y'all.
http://www.renewableenergyroundup.com/

Source: Spectre list
http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre

From: Anne Nigten <ANne*v2.nl>
Date: Wed Sep 18, 2002 11:08:18 AM US/Central
To: spectre*mikrolisten.de
Subject: [spectre] MIR Campaign: Opportunity
for Art or Science Projects in Variable Gravity

"MIR Campaign

"OPPORTUNITY FOR ART OR SCIENCE PROJECTS IN VARIABLE GRAVITY (INCLUDING ZERO GRAVITY)

"and OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS at the GAGARIN COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTRE

"Call for Proposals = deadline 21 October 2002

"The MIR partnership invites proposals from European and Europe-based artists and scientists to undertake projects/research in variable gravity conditions on a parabolic flights or using other facilities, such as the centrifuge and the hydrolaboratory/neutral buoyancy facility used for EVA training, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC), Star City, Russia.

"A parabolic flight provides up to 20 cycles of 30- second periods of weightlessness (zero gravity and microgravity) in freefall, interspersed with periods of double gravity (2g acceleration) and normal gravity.

"This is the pilot project of the MIR (microgravity interdisciplinary research) initiative, which seeks to open up space and space industry related facilities by matching artistic processes and scientific research to give a new impulse to space art and space research.

"The MIR partnership comprises 5 European art organisations focusing on art, science and technology:

"The Arts Catalyst, science-art agency, London, UK

"Leonardo/Olats, Leonardo journal of art, science & technology and Leonardo observatory for the arts and the techno-sciences, Paris, France

"Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia

"Projekt Atol, arts-technology organisation, Ljubljana, Slovenia

"V2_Organisation, institute for the unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherlands

"The selection committee will be made up of representatives from these organisations.

"The opportunity includes a cultural exchange and working trip to Moscow and Star City in early 2003, including the potential to participate in one or two parabolic 'zero gravity' flights with the GCTC.

"The opportunity is open to artists and scientists in any discipline, where the lead proposer is based in any European country, whether or not EU members. We will select up to 6 artists' projects and up to 3 scientific experiments for participation.

"For information and proposal form, go to: http://mir.v2.nl/

"Please email your intent to make a proposal as soon as possible to : mir@v2.nl

"The MIR initiative is supported by the European Union's Culture 2000 fund."

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HEY WAIT A MINUTE:
HOW COME THE USA
DOESN'T HAVE ANY
STATE-SUPPORTED
SPACE ART?
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