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Im Kurs [[GMU:Space_Is_The_Place|Space is the Place]] entstehende Projekte:
Documentation of projects from the class [[GMU:Space Is The Place|Space is the Place]] by [[Max Neupert]] in the [[:Category:WS09|winter semester 2009/2010]]:


==[[Hamish Appleby]]==
[[../Summaery|Summaery exhibition in pictures]]
==[[Andreas Beyer]]==
==[[Kyd Campbell]]==


====Dreams : in the direction of the frontier====
==[[Hamish John Appleby]]: [[/DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID/]]==
[[Image:Wexper.jpg|thumb|250px|Hamish John Appleby: ''Mindmap'']]
===DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby===


keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond
THE PROCESS ''''“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps” Carl Sagan, 1994.''''


Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.
WHERE AND WHAT I am currently running a creative workshop with the students from the Waldorfschule in Weimar – So far this has been a fantastic opportunity for both myself and the students(I hope) to engage in a workshop or kind of ‘mini project’ that they have probably never encountered before, with the outcome being a possible mini exhibition of drawings – or other creations.  


I will produce a machine for self video recording and then film a short video metaphor.
A GREAT QUOTE “I shut my eyes in order to see”.
--Paul Gauguin


The image will include a horse walking alone into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the horse, as he is pulling the camera, filming himself.
LOCATION:  Waldorfschule Weimar


I will construct a specialized cart for holding and stabilising the camera and a harness for attaching this cart to a horse. The horse will be instructed to walk in a straight line along a road in the countryside. The cart will be made of wood, well oiled.
[[/DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID|Project description and more Pictures]]
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The music for the video will be an adaptation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick Grace Slick's] 1980 solo song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XFA7MU9jg&feature=related Dreams]. The voice part of the original song will be written into a score for cello and recorded especially for this video.
==[[Andreas Beyer]]: The Radiostar==
Since more than 100 years humankind uses technology for broardcasting content and for some physics reasons nearly 80% of that signals are just “lost” in space. That means the nearby outer space (100 ly orbit) is in a way a kind of radioarchive or a cultural documentation of hunmankinds ability to send signals with several technologies. I'm focused on the frequency band of ultra short wave radio signals. To explain this cosmic-international radioarchive, I want to create a navigationplan to "travel" through that archive. the installation will be a (selfmade) telescopebody (no tech inside) that can be moved in different directions to zoom into a model of that “radio-halo”. The room, where the telescope will be placed, is prepaired with some small radiotransmitters (selfmade) to symbolize where some particularly broadcasts are “waving” in outer space. Inside that telescopebody will be some, i think maybe three, radioreceivers to get in contact with the transmitters and by moving that telescopebody the recipient can adjust the programm that sounds in the body of the telescope (sorry for my bad english).
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[[File:Snapshot_2009-11-19_00-31-29.jpg|video maquette (pretend the cow is a pony)]]
==[[Kyd Campbell]]: [[/In the direction of the frontier/]]==
[[File:cam_cart1.jpg|wodden cart for camera tied to the horse]]
[[Image:Snapshot 2009-11-19 00-31-29.jpg|thumb|250px|video maquette (pretend the cow is a pony)]]
keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond


====STAGES====
Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.


# Stage
The goal of this project is to produce a machine for self video recording and capturing alternate states of movement.
#* designing the camera cart
The image will include a subject moving into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the subject, as it is pulling the camera, filming itself.
#* training the horse
I constructed a specialized camera mount for holding and stabilising the camera on a rope. The subject is instructed to pull on the rope. Currently, the rope is tied to a fixed point.
#* testing video equipment and lighting(outdoor conditions)
#* looking for a shooting location (stright country road)
# Stage
#* writing the score for the music (musician)
#* playing and recording the music
# Stage
#* testing the cart for speed and stability, modifying
#* recording the video, editing
#* presentation


====LINKS====
[[/In the direction of the frontier|Read on...]]
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'''dispersion'''
==[[Fan Yu]]: [[/Reisen duch Zeit und Raum/]]==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_relation Dispersion Relation, wikipedia]
[[Image:YuFanSIP2009.jpg|thumb|250px|Idea: Zeittunnel - “Space is The Place”]]
„Ich schlafe in Prag, arbeite in Berlin, esse in Peking, spiele in Paris.... die Welt ist nicht so groß. Ich kann irgendwohin gehen, obwohl es auf dem Mond ist.” Es ist ein Traum von mir...  Aber es kann sein?“


'''frontier'''
„Haben Dinosaurier Haar? Warum ist die Maya-Kultur verschwunden? Wer tötete John F. Kennedy? Was ist der öffentlichen verkehr? Sind Zeitreisen und Raumreisen möglich? Oder nur ein Menschheitstraum? Ob können die Fakten direkt vor unseren Augen sein?...”  So viele Fragen sind in meinem Kopf… vielleicht steht die Lösung schon lange Zeit im Internet!!


* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier Frontier, wikiperdia]
Ich hoffe, dass Sie mit meine Arbeit irgendwohin gehen können. Nach ein Sekunde Lang sind die Fakten direkt vor Augen...


'''other awesome links'''
[[/Reisen duch Zeit und Raum|Project description]]
* [http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2 Alice Miceli's research and artwork about the Chernobyl Disaster]
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==[[Anja Erdmann]]==
==[[Jamie Ferguson]]: [[/Vanessa_Cardui in Space/]]==
==[[Yu Fan]]==
[[Image:Iso_ftpc.jpg|thumb|250px|isometric view]]
==[[Jamie Ferguson]]==
==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]==


Projection of Satellite pictures on to the human body.  
This work began by following a project sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. Vanessa Cardui larvae that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the ISS, was also an educational project that encouraged students to take part by creating their own habitats to watch life cycles over the course of aprox. 25 days. Through a process of observation and isolation, both habitats (one on earth and one in space, and the variable being gravity) would attempt to contain life in order to speculate how knowledge gained might apply to humans (and life as a living system) travelling in space and time through the solar system. Might this also effect, mediate and transform life on earth?  
These picture are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body, Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth, but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty but the everyday reality of body and earth.
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We are going to create a Website that acts as a "Advent Calendar", so that from the 1.December to the 24. December there will be to discover a picture for every day.
 
 
[[Image:testimage.jpg|600px|(http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/atlas.html)]]
 
(http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/atlas.html)
 
==[[Henrike Schneider]]==
 
'''''O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space...'''''
 
Hamlet
 
<u>The Feeling of Infinity</u>
 
The world of science means numbers, calculations, effects and explanations.
The universe is a place to explore. Also here you find mathematics and calculations, time and space.
When everything is in order and part of the human knowledge - you get the feeling of "security".
The moon is turning with a certain speed around the Earth, the Earth - which has a certain mass and and an age is turning around the sun, which of course has a certain temperature and so on... .
But what about things you can not explain? To be more precisely - questions which occur to our mind like:
What is behind the universe and where is it all ending? Infinity.
 
 
The easiest way to create the effect of infinity is to use two mirrors, which are located parallel to each other.
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<i>My principal idea was to create a room installation - a big darkened cube (e.g. 2m x 2m x 2m)with one mirror on each sidewall.
Images were taken every 30 minutes during daylight hours, transmitted to the web and captured here as one large chrono-sequential print.  
So if someone is in the center of this cube - after a certain time (adaption time) the feeling of infinity will arise. </i>
 
 
Comments by Max:
You should check this Exhibition out: [http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/exhibition/110/James_Turrell._The_Wolfsburg_Project_ James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project]
 
==[[Martin Ketelhut]] and [[Sylvia Rohr]]==
 
 
The plan is to produce artificial space pictures, photographs and an animated space to explore by using different materials and methods.
360°, telescope and long exposure time photos could melt with photos of surfaces, mist (artificial nebula) a.s.o
 
http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/construction.swf
 
http://thezonnhaidersclub.de/extern/surface.jpg
 
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg
 
==[[Bianka Langnickel]]==
 
===bookproject – „space is my place“ - aren‘t we all aliens?===
 
 
for me space is in general is a very undefined place. as i think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity
i will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacy environments. i am going to make an illustrated book for
children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground.
the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselfs and learn how to create their own „alians“.
when the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story its more easy for them to get a connection between
the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „alians“ they build before to make
up further stories and play them within their family. so in the end their will be a book which provides a intersocial way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. it is „talking“ to different
senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and espacially the space more open minded and in a creativly way
of thinking about „outhere“.
 
 
#Stage
#* making experiments with the materials related to space and the figures to construct out of this material
#* finding an ideal story
#Stage
#* creating all of the figures
#* build sets where the figures act in
#Stage
#* testing photographie equipment and lighting, composition etc.
#* final photographie work - taking pictures of the actual sets
#Stage
#* postproduction _ retusche - like making the pictures more detailed, contrasted and fix some shadow areas etc.
#Stage
#* illustrate the be-creative part
#Stage
#* search for a publisher
 
 
calculated time for all parts: 1 year
 
==[[Stefan Bernhardt]] and [[Christoph Schreiber]]==
===Creating a self-playing instrument===
We want to create a self-playing instrument that uses a map of stars for creating soundscapes. The user should be able to change the snippet of the map, draw and edit zodiac signs and start and stop sounds.
 
When a star is clicked, it makes a noise and a shockwave comes up. It evolves through the space and activates other stars and items on its way which also make sounds and send new shockwaves. So the application doesn't need any user input to go on but the user can take influence on the continuity.
 
If a zodiac sign gets activated all linked stars will start making tones at the same time.
 
====Two methods: Samples or MIDI====
At the moment there are two techniques for realizing this idea:
 
# We render samples of the instruments and embed them in our application. It's easier to develop but very limited in functionality. The application could be distributed via web because no special hard- or software is needed.
# We send MIDI events to an external software synthesizer which will create the sounds. This requires a powerful machine and much research but is more powerful in the aspect of flexibility and creativity. The application needs some additional software to be running in the background so it won't be capable to be distributed as out-of-the-box experience.
 
==[[Alex Schumann]]==
==[[Katarina Sengstaken]], [[Timea Tofalvi]], [[Yuxiang Wen]], and [[Shuo Liu]]: A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)==
===Installation Concept===
A faraway Cold Palace is a room installation featuring sound, lights, leaves, and dust to abstractly simulate the feeling of being on the moon.  Our concept of the moon stems from the three Chinese moon myths the story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e/ Chang'e] 嫦娥, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gang/ Wu Gang]吴刚 , and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit/ Jade Rabbit] 玉兔. These three myths revolve around a mystical laurel tree that grows on the moon. 
We will use sound to represent the myths, the sound of an axe chopping at the tree to illustrate the story of Wu Gang, a fan flapping for the story of Chang’e, and the sound of a mortar grinding as representation of the Jade rabbit story.  As for the tree it’s represented by white leaves tied to translucent string attached to mechanical pullies in the ceiling that will slowly raise and drop the leaves.
The room is lit by black lights that run along the base of the walls, and in the room are three raised platforms covered with gray dust, like moon dust.  


[[Image:Instalationplan.jpg]]
[[/Vanessa_Cardui in Space|Project description]]
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==[[André Wünscher]], [[Anica Huck]], [[Hannes Wagner]], [[Michael Schlund]], [[Michaela Honauer]], [[Thomas Fritzsche]]: [[/Voyageo/]]==
[[Image:Voyageo.jpg|thumb|250px|satellite images on skin]]


=====Links to some Artist Websites who have done Similar Work=====
VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures onto the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth.
* [http://flavin.pulitzerarts.org/#/home/ Flavin],  
* [http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/100#c1240/ Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster],
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/424993462/douglas-wheeler.html/ Douglas Wheeler],
* [http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/piece/?search=Oslo&page=&f=Title&object=2003.62 Koo Jeong-a],
*[http://www.jeanshin.com/ Jean Shin]


==[[Daniela Stade]]: To Fetch The Stars From Heaven==
[[/Voyageo|Full documentation]]
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===The Idea===
==[[Henrike Schneider]]: [[/Der Müllmann/]] ==
We know constellations in heaven, for example the zodiac. The International Atronomical Union(IAU) published a list of 88 constellations. I want to find similar constellations on earth, which are formed by cities.
[[Image:DerMüllmann.jpg|thumb|250px|Der Müllmann]]


I am going to find these constellations by pictures of a satellite.
Infinity is the topic of art works and theoretical essays. During the Romantic Caspar David Friedrich tried to visualize the feeling of infinity in his drawings. Superiority.
Here you can see the Ursa Major (der große Wagen/the big dipper):


[[Image:Der_große_Wagen1.jpg]]
The moebius strip is a visual explanation of infinity and today used as a symbol in our everyday life. It represents a circuit and also the idea of repetition, with no beginning and no end. The best known moebius strip in our daily routine is the symbol of recycling circulation.  


And here you can see the same constellation built by cities on earth:
In my work I am focusing on the current problem of disposal sites in Germany and its use. Focusing on the topic 'Space is the place', I endeavor significant towards the Erfurt-Schwerborn disposal site which has witnessed radical changes over the past 5 years.


[[Image:Der_große_Wagen.jpg]]
''Der Müllmann'' represents conceptual and visual the idea of circulation; the before and after - the idea of infinity.


Maybe I am going to create a new type of starmap, but up to now i am not sure.
[[/Der Müllmann|Full documentation]]
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==[[Jan Frederik Vogt]]==
==[[Martin Ketelhut]], [[Sylvia Rohr]]: [[/Alieno|Alieno - Artificial space pictures made by pure photography and montage]]==
[[Image:Alieno_buch.jpg‎|thumb|250px|self-bounded book "alieno"]]
The plan was to produce artificial space pictures that are made by pure photography and montage. Different materials, objects, gases and liquid mixtures - directly shot or shot through a microscope with short and long exposure time - built the basis and got later arranged to those space pics.


===Collect Them===
During the work hundrets of hubble pics and images in books
(e.g. Mackowiak, Bernhard. Planeten, Sterne, Universum. Naumann & Göebel Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln, ISBN 3625121417) inspired us. It is impressive how totally different the look of those images can be (real-looking, like drawn, false colored etc.)


Everywhere around us are stars, not only at the sky. Stars are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewellery, names, pictures and many other uses. I want to collect them to show the different meanings and usages of stars in our society. At the end of the semester I want to exhibit all the pieces I have found by then.
*[[/Alieno|Project Documentation]]
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==[[Xiaomei Wang]]==
==[[Bianka Langnickel]]: [[/aren't we all aliens?/]]==
'''Gedanken meiner Idee'''
[[Image:BiankaL-web-wiki1.jpg|thumb|250px|Alien]]
Bookproject. For me space is in general is a very undefined place. As I think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity I will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacey environments. I am going to make an illustrated book for children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground.
the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselves and learn how to create their own „aliens“.
When the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story it‘s more easy for them to get a connection between the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „aliens“ they build before to make up further stories and play them within their family. In the end their will be a book which provides a inter-social way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. It is „talking“ to different senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and especially the space more open minded and in a creatively way of thinking about “out there”.


*Vor ein paar Jahren hat man schon begonnen, die Spiele über das Thema des Weltraums zu designen. Z.B. das sehr bekannte Abendteuer-Spiel ''Samorost''. Es zeigte uns eine interessante Geschichte, die der Weltraum als Hintergrund gestaltet wird.
[[/aren't we all aliens?|Project documentation]]
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[http://www.amanita-design.net/samorost-1 Samorost]
==[[Stefan Bernhardt]], [[Christoph Schreiber]]: [[/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars/]]==
[[Image:Rockit-logo.jpg|thumb|250px|Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars]]
Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and to give the innumerably stars a special sound.
In interaction between the user with the stars and the stars among themselves, there will be different sounds create. They will picture a musically portrait of the universe.


*Rund 2008 haben Pyramide(USA-Firma) mit Spaceweb(China-Firma) ein 3D Spiel designt, in dem die Spieler das Shenzhou Raumschiff virtuell kontrollieren könnten. Beispielweise kann man durch ''mission editor'', ''vehicle editor'', ''control panel editor'' und ''AI'' den Raumschiff spielen, damit man es im Weltraum zu senden.
[[/Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars|Project Documentation]]
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*Wenn ein Spiel immer in einer Form durchführt, bzw. nur von puzzle oder nur von Technik, würde es schneller trocken sein. Dann könnten wir in einem kleinen Spiel mit die beiden Formen mischen und realisieren.   
==[[Katarina Sengstaken]], [[Timea Tofalvi]], [[Yuxiang Wen]], [[Shuo Liu]]: [[/afcp|A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)]]==
Obwohl es schon ähnliche SpaceSpiele gibt, möchte ich noch ein '''''flashgame''''' oder ein '''''flashfilm''''' machen, über diese sehr begeisterte Richtung. Weil der Weltraum so viele Überaschung und Fantasie hätte, könnte man natürlich schöne Geschichte vorstellen und interessante Inhalte für mein Projekt finden.
[[Image:Poster.jpg|thumb|250px|Official Exhibit Poster]]
The moon has come into focus again in the great Space raceIt has been forty years since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, now after the recent discovery of water on the moon a new interest has been sparked about finally heading back.  In this new moon race has new contenders, the US and Russia are no longer in the lead. By 2015 it might be a Chinese man to be the next to step foot on the moon.


'''Konzepte'''
We conceptualize our project around dissolving the western ideals and myths about the moon and working with Chinese mythology and symbolism as our focus. Our concept of the moon stems from the three Chinese moon myths the story of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e/ Chang'e] 嫦娥, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Gang/ Wu Gang]吴刚 , and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit/ Jade Rabbit] 玉兔. These three myths revolve around a mystical laurel tree that grows on the moon.
*Spieldesign'' das ganze Leben des Raumschiffs''
Dieses Spiel wird in verschiedenen Nivea gestalten.
*kleiner Film
Der Inhalt habe ich noch nicht entschieden.


==[[Luo Yu]]:  The Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)==
[[/afcp|Read full Project description...]]
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====The Idea====
==[[Jan Frederik Vogt]]: [[/Our stars/]]==
[[Image:Sternebsp.jpg‎|right|thumb|250px|Sterne]]
We took the stars from the sky. They are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewelery, names, pictures and many other uses. Have a look at our own starry sky.


We live in the solar system and it is our nearest galaxy. I would like to make a simulation for the solar system, the initial idea is to use flash platform with ActionScript programming, I want to design a virtual mini-universe and will make this space into a virtual online exhibition, people will be able to access this place through the network.
[[/Our stars|Find out more]] about the project.
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I will design a virtual space with the solar system's nine planets, nebulae and all kinds of meteorites analog out. The Visitors can make use of the mouse and keyboard keys such as "up", "down", "left" and "right" in the whole space random wandering. To make the simulation more realistic, I will collect the texture first. Of course I can design a variety of sound effects too, for example: when I click a planet, it will send an interesting sound. Although that is a simulation of the solar system, but I will give this space a particular style, and the website will receive a seemly interfaces-design.
==[[Luo Yu]]: [[/Virtual Solar System|Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)]]==
[[Image:luoyubild1.jpg|thumb|250px|Virtual Solar System]]


[[Image:Solar_sys.jpg|600px|caption]]
Virtual Solar System is an innovative 3D online platform. Through this you will not only learn the structure and context of the solar system, but also a fantastic space that can be experienced through simple interactive
body movements. When the user visited this platform, the hand movements of user will recorded by the camera as commands. Once the system has found a projector connection, this platform is switched into the "astronaut mode", in this mode you can move in front of the screen free by own hands and feet in order to feel the spectacular of the spacewalk. Each user can even set up their own celestial bodies and share online.


Planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System. Sizes are to scale, but relative distances from the Sun are not.
[[/Virtual Solar System|Project documentation]]
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[[Image:Planets2008.jpg|600px|caption]]
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Latest revision as of 10:56, 30 May 2012

Documentation of projects from the class Space is the Place by Max Neupert in the winter semester 2009/2010:

Summaery exhibition in pictures

Hamish John Appleby: DREAMS IN INNER SPACE AND THE FRONTIER OF THE VOID

Hamish John Appleby: Mindmap

DREAMS IN SPACE, BLINDFOLDED AND BOUNDLESS - A workshop by: Hamish John Appleby

THE PROCESS '“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps” Carl Sagan, 1994.'

WHERE AND WHAT I am currently running a creative workshop with the students from the Waldorfschule in Weimar – So far this has been a fantastic opportunity for both myself and the students(I hope) to engage in a workshop or kind of ‘mini project’ that they have probably never encountered before, with the outcome being a possible mini exhibition of drawings – or other creations.

A GREAT QUOTE “I shut my eyes in order to see”. --Paul Gauguin

LOCATION: Waldorfschule Weimar

Project description and more Pictures

Andreas Beyer: The Radiostar

Since more than 100 years humankind uses technology for broardcasting content and for some physics reasons nearly 80% of that signals are just “lost” in space. That means the nearby outer space (100 ly orbit) is in a way a kind of radioarchive or a cultural documentation of hunmankinds ability to send signals with several technologies. I'm focused on the frequency band of ultra short wave radio signals. To explain this cosmic-international radioarchive, I want to create a navigationplan to "travel" through that archive. the installation will be a (selfmade) telescopebody (no tech inside) that can be moved in different directions to zoom into a model of that “radio-halo”. The room, where the telescope will be placed, is prepaired with some small radiotransmitters (selfmade) to symbolize where some particularly broadcasts are “waving” in outer space. Inside that telescopebody will be some, i think maybe three, radioreceivers to get in contact with the transmitters and by moving that telescopebody the recipient can adjust the programm that sounds in the body of the telescope (sorry for my bad english).

Kyd Campbell: In the direction of the frontier

video maquette (pretend the cow is a pony)

keywords: space, frontier, dreams, dispersion, forward, ahead, distance, pathway, vibration, waves, western, cowboy, horse, self, psychedelia, utopia, horizon, beyond

Moving forwards towards towards a frontier.

The goal of this project is to produce a machine for self video recording and capturing alternate states of movement. The image will include a subject moving into the distance. In the image, a large rope, visibly attached to the camera point will lead towards the subject, as it is pulling the camera, filming itself. I constructed a specialized camera mount for holding and stabilising the camera on a rope. The subject is instructed to pull on the rope. Currently, the rope is tied to a fixed point.

Read on...

Fan Yu: Reisen duch Zeit und Raum

Idea: Zeittunnel - “Space is The Place”

„Ich schlafe in Prag, arbeite in Berlin, esse in Peking, spiele in Paris.... die Welt ist nicht so groß. Ich kann irgendwohin gehen, obwohl es auf dem Mond ist.” Es ist ein Traum von mir... Aber es kann sein?“

„Haben Dinosaurier Haar? Warum ist die Maya-Kultur verschwunden? Wer tötete John F. Kennedy? Was ist der öffentlichen verkehr? Sind Zeitreisen und Raumreisen möglich? Oder nur ein Menschheitstraum? Ob können die Fakten direkt vor unseren Augen sein?...” So viele Fragen sind in meinem Kopf… vielleicht steht die Lösung schon lange Zeit im Internet!!

Ich hoffe, dass Sie mit meine Arbeit irgendwohin gehen können. Nach ein Sekunde Lang sind die Fakten direkt vor Augen...“

Project description

Jamie Ferguson: Vanessa_Cardui in Space

isometric view

This work began by following a project sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. Vanessa Cardui larvae that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the ISS, was also an educational project that encouraged students to take part by creating their own habitats to watch life cycles over the course of aprox. 25 days. Through a process of observation and isolation, both habitats (one on earth and one in space, and the variable being gravity) would attempt to contain life in order to speculate how knowledge gained might apply to humans (and life as a living system) travelling in space and time through the solar system. Might this also effect, mediate and transform life on earth?

Images were taken every 30 minutes during daylight hours, transmitted to the web and captured here as one large chrono-sequential print.

Project description

André Wünscher, Anica Huck, Hannes Wagner, Michael Schlund, Michaela Honauer, Thomas Fritzsche: Voyageo

satellite images on skin

VOYAGEO consists of projections of satellite pictures onto the human body. These pictures are not about act photography, but about the recognition of earth and the human body. Mankind has a high selfconfidence about itself and its reign on earth but still is not really selfaware. We are trying to produce thus selfconsciousness by showing not the beauty showed in today's media. We want to have a look on the everyday reality of body and earth.

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Henrike Schneider: Der Müllmann

Der Müllmann

Infinity is the topic of art works and theoretical essays. During the Romantic Caspar David Friedrich tried to visualize the feeling of infinity in his drawings. Superiority.

The moebius strip is a visual explanation of infinity and today used as a symbol in our everyday life. It represents a circuit and also the idea of repetition, with no beginning and no end. The best known moebius strip in our daily routine is the symbol of recycling circulation.

In my work I am focusing on the current problem of disposal sites in Germany and its use. Focusing on the topic 'Space is the place', I endeavor significant towards the Erfurt-Schwerborn disposal site which has witnessed radical changes over the past 5 years.

Der Müllmann represents conceptual and visual the idea of circulation; the before and after - the idea of infinity.

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Martin Ketelhut, Sylvia Rohr: Alieno - Artificial space pictures made by pure photography and montage

self-bounded book "alieno"

The plan was to produce artificial space pictures that are made by pure photography and montage. Different materials, objects, gases and liquid mixtures - directly shot or shot through a microscope with short and long exposure time - built the basis and got later arranged to those space pics.

During the work hundrets of hubble pics and images in books (e.g. Mackowiak, Bernhard. Planeten, Sterne, Universum. Naumann & Göebel Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln, ISBN 3625121417) inspired us. It is impressive how totally different the look of those images can be (real-looking, like drawn, false colored etc.)


Bianka Langnickel: aren't we all aliens?

Alien

Bookproject. For me space is in general is a very undefined place. As I think it encourage everybody to use their whole imagination and creativity I will use this unknown area to create my own place, figures and spacey environments. I am going to make an illustrated book for children which consists of these imaginary protagonists and will lead them to an abstract way of creating their own playground. the book will give them the opportunity to reconstruct the creatures by themselves and learn how to create their own „aliens“. When the child is interacting with the object playing a part in the story it‘s more easy for them to get a connection between the actual sense of making up something in addition to the creative process. they can use the „aliens“ they build before to make up further stories and play them within their family. In the end their will be a book which provides a inter-social way of reading, listening, building and a wide range of playing effects on little children as much as on adults. It is „talking“ to different senses and invites everybody to join who loves to see the world and especially the space more open minded and in a creatively way of thinking about “out there”.

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Stefan Bernhardt, Christoph Schreiber: Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars

Captain Rock'it and the Sound of Stars

Imagine the universe's infinite emptiness, a place where absolute silence rules. We want to fill this space symbolical and to give the innumerably stars a special sound. In interaction between the user with the stars and the stars among themselves, there will be different sounds create. They will picture a musically portrait of the universe.

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Katarina Sengstaken, Timea Tofalvi, Yuxiang Wen, Shuo Liu: A Faraway Cold Palace (广寒宫)

Official Exhibit Poster

The moon has come into focus again in the great Space race. It has been forty years since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, now after the recent discovery of water on the moon a new interest has been sparked about finally heading back. In this new moon race has new contenders, the US and Russia are no longer in the lead. By 2015 it might be a Chinese man to be the next to step foot on the moon.

We conceptualize our project around dissolving the western ideals and myths about the moon and working with Chinese mythology and symbolism as our focus. Our concept of the moon stems from the three Chinese moon myths the story of Chang'e 嫦娥, Wu Gang吴刚 , and the Jade Rabbit 玉兔. These three myths revolve around a mystical laurel tree that grows on the moon.

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Jan Frederik Vogt: Our stars

Sterne

We took the stars from the sky. They are used by us. You can find them in logos, distinctions, decorations, jewelery, names, pictures and many other uses. Have a look at our own starry sky.

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Luo Yu: Virtual Solar System (3D Online-Platform)

Virtual Solar System

Virtual Solar System is an innovative 3D online platform. Through this you will not only learn the structure and context of the solar system, but also a fantastic space that can be experienced through simple interactive body movements. When the user visited this platform, the hand movements of user will recorded by the camera as commands. Once the system has found a projector connection, this platform is switched into the "astronaut mode", in this mode you can move in front of the screen free by own hands and feet in order to feel the spectacular of the spacewalk. Each user can even set up their own celestial bodies and share online.

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