{"id":166427,"date":"2023-08-07T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=166427"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:09:01","slug":"eduardo-kacs-space-odyssey-first-artist-to-send-a-hologram-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/eduardo-kacs-space-odyssey-first-artist-to-send-a-hologram-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Kac’s Space Odyssey: First Artist to Send a Hologram into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow the captivating journey of Eduardo Kac, a Brazilian American artist who\u2019s about to launch a unique hologram into space in an unparalleled artistic endeavor.<\/span><\/p>\n <!-- <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n } else {\r\n jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n }\r\n });\r\n })\r\n <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n <span style=\"background-color:#4db2ee;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#4db2ee;background-color:rgba(77, 178, 238, 0.1);\">\r\n <li>Brazilian American artist Eduardo Kac is set to make history by launching his holographic artwork, '\u00c1gora,' into deep space.<\/li>\r\n <li>Kac collaborates with Celestis, a company that specializes in launching cremated remains and DNA into space, for this unprecedented artistic venture.<\/li>\r\n <li>Kac's ambitious space project serves as a challenge to earthly artistic boundaries and initiates a dialogue about our future relationship with the cosmos.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \n<h2><b>Eduardo Kac Sets Sights on Stars, Taking Art Beyond Earth<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the famous saying goes, “the sky’s the limit.” But for the visionary Brazilian American artist, Eduardo Kac, the sky is merely a starting point. We’re embarking on an extraordinary artistic expedition, where Kac is setting out to make cosmic history by launching his art <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">masterpiece<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ‘\u00c1gora,’ into the great beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>\u00c1gora: Art and Holography Breaching the Final Frontier<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the inception of \u00c1gora back in 1986, Kac envisaged his art’s destination as not being any earthly gallery, but the boundless expanses of deep space. An exceptional fusion of art and technology, \u00c1gora, a pioneering use of holography, presents a profound statement \u2013 the projection of the Portuguese word \u00c1gora, symbolizing a “gathering place” or “now” based on accent placement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 1.5-centimeter square of glass serves as the physical canvas, encoding the data and appearing as a mere piece of clear glass. Illuminate it, and voila! The vibrant hologram of \u00c1gora springs to life, painting a spectral tableau in a cyber green hue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kac’s past rendezvous with space projects, via collaborations with NASA and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/elon-musk-values-twitter-at-20-billion-announces-new-stock-compensation-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SpaceX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, were preludes to this ambitious endeavor. Be it guiding French astronaut Thomas Pesquet to craft a sculpture in zero gravity, or his nanofiche disk carrying encoded symbols reaching the International Space Station; Kac’s artistic oeuvre carries a spacefaring legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n <!-- <div class=\"container-c\"> -->\r\n <!-- <div class=\"row justify-content-between\"> -->\r\n <!-- <div class=\"col-post-800\"> -->\r\n <!-- start html -->\r\n <div class=\"blockquote-wapper\">\r\n <div>\r\n <span class=\"text_quot\">\r\n <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow the captivating journey of Eduardo Kac, a Brazilian American artist who\u2019s about to launch a unique hologram into space in an unparalleled artistic endeavor.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"quot_icon\">\r\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quot_tick\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot_tri.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n <\/div>\r\n <!-- end html -->\r\n <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n \n<h2><b>Celestis: The Ultimate Time Capsule in Space<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Celestis, a company that specializes in launching cremated remains, DNA samples, and digital messages into space, Kac found the perfect ally. Fondly known as the “forever time capsule”, Celestis will aid Kac in realizing his deep-space aspiration. The company\u2019s upcoming mission, “The Enterprise Flight,” will travel 186 million miles away from Earth, destined to orbit the sun forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This unprecedented voyage will carry the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, along with the DNA of former Presidents George Washington, JFK, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. While these celestial companions are unintended, their presence lends a poetic context to Kac’s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Power of Space Art: A Defiance of Earthly Boundaries<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Kac contends, we must embrace space culture as a natural extension of our terrestrial existence, driven by our inherent need to explore and experience the unknown. Critics might question the ecological and financial impact of such ventures, but Kac posits that artists, wherever they are, will use available resources to express themselves. He contends that art in space is no more ecologically detrimental than Earth-bound art, which often employs environmentally harmful materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Kac\u2019s \u00c1gora pushes the boundaries of artistic exploration. It will exist as a “potential star,” hinting at future discoveries and uncharted territories, waiting to communicate with future space travelers. So, where are we headed? Eduardo Kac points upward, beyond our earthly horizons, and whispers, “To the stars!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10028,"featured_media":166491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}