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Authors: |
Bureaud, Annick. | |
Title: |
"The Overview Effect- Living Space/Life in Space" | |
Keywords: |
outer space - space art - cyberspace - post-biological evolution | |
Abstract: |
In 1987, Frank White wrote a
seminal book called "The Overview Effect" in which he was presenting the cultural effects of space activities. Following his argument we shall present in this paper, based on space art works and artists, the convergence of the three main discoveries/inventions that are shaping our new status of living conscious beings namely space activities, bio-technologies and cyberspace. Space activities are designing a new "territory" that we inhabit (we are already living outside the Earth, everyday there is at least a man or woman orbiting the planet, we have probes and satellites "out there"). We shall consider, with examples of artworks of space art what this territory is and what it is changing in our mind. We shall develop how the new relationship to space and body brought by cyberspace and virtual reality is related to what can be experienced in weightlessness and outer space. We shall see that the new definition of life raised by bio-technologies and artificial life has a resonance with living in space and life in space and the possible evolution of our specie. This paper will strongly be based on examples of space artworks as opposed to science-fiction models. |
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| Bureaud, Annick. bureaud@altern.org IDEA editor http://nunc.com Annick Bureaud works and lives in Paris, France. Editor of IDEA online (International Directory of Electronic Arts, http://nunc.com) ; Collaborator of OLATS (Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and Techno-Sciences, http://www.cyberworkers.com/Leonardo) the French Leonardo web site, member of the Leonardo Space and the Arts Projects, member of the Leonardo Editorial Board ; Free lance art critic (ART Press) ; lecturer in Electronic Art (Art School of Aix-en-Provence) ;Independent curator. | ||