Saturday, December 26, 2009
Taking Art to the Moon
Carnegie Mellon University: "Think of it as one small step for artists, one giant leap for Carnegie Mellon. The university — known for its interdisciplinary strengths in art and technology — will take a series of interactive art projects to the moon in December 2011."
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This is amazing that cmu is going to the moon. I did not know any thing about this project until I read this article. It is so cool that all of the departments are working together to do this amazing thing. It will be cool when they get the rover on the moon and they are doing all of these things on the moon. I hop that when they do this that it will be a big thing and the cmu campus will be buzzing about it. I would like to work on a project like this in the future because it is so amazing. I would like to hear more about this in the future.
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but when the article mentions "As humans move into the solar system, and further into outer space, we will take all aspects of human culture with us, including all the arts." I feel like we're skipping some steps and spending money and time on technology that is not exactly moving us forward in a direction to actually inhabit/increase our presence on the moon.
This is a lame analogy, but it just seems like we're figuring out how to hook up our incredible sound system, before even figuring out how we're going to build the house that said sound system is supposed to be in.
It seems like it's being done because it's "cool" rather than being an progression.
Sometimes "because it's cool" is a good enough reason to do something. Adding art to a project like this suddenly makes it something accessible to more than astronauts and engineers, now it's something that far more people can see themselves as being a part of and more people are likely to support it. For programs like space exploration that are very, very expensive and subject to frequent reviews of their funding this gives a chance to appeal directly to the constituents, if they support it then they are more likely to want their congressmen to vote for it, and the more likely it is to get the money in the future.
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