Week 9: Space + Art

Having never thought of space and art's relationship before, I found this week's topic regarding the relationship between the two to be very interesting since this was the first time I had associated the two. While researching I found how art can really help space in different ways. Ways such as educating, concept visualization, and creating collaborative projects. Space and art help educate by being an easier tool used to explain complex ideas to students, workers, and other educators. It also has the ability to make a concept easier for the audience to understand and discuss. An example of concept visualization is when artists and scientists work together to compose a plan, visualize it, and communicate how to complete a future mission or task. Companies like NASA like to take on collaborative projects between artists and scientists/engineers for public display and projects to further space exploration. During the 1960s, NASA decided to create a program that would commission artists to create artworks depicting different aspects of the space program's history. Art and space complement each other by being able to reach both younger and older audiences and influencing them to take on STEM-related careers. 

NASA Space Station Concepts:

[Alan Chinchar's 1991 rendition of the Space Station in orbit]

[2001:A Space Odyssey - directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1968.]

[1929 Hermann Noordung - habitat wheel space station]

References 

“Projects & Events.” KSEVT, www.ksevt.eu/projectsevents. Accessed 31 May 2024.

Alaina, et al. “How on Earth Are NASA Science and Art Related?” How on Earth Are NASA Science and Art Related?, www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/how-on-earth-are-nasa-science-and-art-related. Accessed 31 May 2024.

“Stemonstrations: Space Art.” YouTube, 2 Aug. 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsZRmKPIg0. Accessed 31 May 2024.

“NASA and Art.” NASA, 6 May 2024, www.nasa.gov/history/nasa-and-art/. Accessed 31 May 2024.

“NASA’s Partnership between Art and Science: A Collaboration to Cherish.” NASA, 29 Sept. 2023, www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasas-partnership-between-art-and-science-a-collaboration-to-cherish/. Accessed 31 May 2024.

Staff, Space.com. “Far out Space Station Concepts by NASA (Gallery).” Space.Com, Space, 14 June 2012, www.space.com/16091-nasa-space-station-concepts-art-images.html. Accessed 31 May 2024.