Fluxface in Space

Mission Accomplished

2011-06-01T05:00:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to all the participants of Fluxface in Space.

After nearly a year of planning and delays, our mission of organizing and presenting an exhibit in orbit has been accomplished with the landing of the Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-134. Both phases of the project have been completed.

Well done - we did it! If you would like to host an exhibition of the photo documentation of the Fluxface in Space project, please contact Cecil Touchon at the Fluxmuseum.
email: cecil_touchon@fluxmuseum.org

Thank you to all who came along on the journey and to those at NASA who made it possible.

Gary, Cecil and Angela

Fluxface in Space - Launch of Endeavour STS-134

2011-05-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

Phase Two of Fluxface in Space was launched today, May 16, 2011 at 8:56 A.M. EDT.

Mission STS-134 schedule:
Launch: May 16, 2011 at 8:56 A.M. EDT.
Rendezvous with the International Space Station: May 18, 2011 at 6:14 A.M. EDT.
Return landing: June 1, 2011 at 2:34 A.M. EDT.

Congratulations to the artists who had their artwork on board STS-134.

The Fluxface in Space Project, Phase Two, on board the Endeavour Space Shuttle STS-134 flew 6.51 million miles in 248 orbits over 15 days, 17 hours and 39 minutes.

Launch Video

Video: NASA TV

Landing Video

Video: NASA TV

Fluxface in Space - Launch of Discovery STS-133

2011-02-24T19:57:00.000-08:00

Phase One of Fluxface in Space was launched today, February 24, 2011 at 4:53 P.M. EST.

Mission STS-133 schedule:
Launch: February 24, 2011 at 4:53 P.M. EST.
Rendezvous with the International Space Station: February 26, 2011 at 2:14 P.M. EST.
Return landing: March 9, 2011 at 11:57 A.M. EST.

Congratulations to all the artists whose artwork was in orbit!

The Fluxface in Space Project, Phase One, on board the Discovery Space Shuttle STS-133 completed 202 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,304,140 miles. From launch to landing the mission elapsed time was 12 days, 19 hours, four minutes and 50 seconds.

Launch Video

Video: NASA TV

Landing Video

Video: NASA TV

Fluxface in Space Exhibited in Chicago

2011-02-22T17:28:00.000-08:00

As a part of Fluxfest Chicago at the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago, Fluxface in Space including all the images of art and the images of the artists' self portraits was exhibited on a music stand in the performance area.
All participants may add a line to their exhibition resumes:

Group Exhibition
Fluxface in Space at Fluxfest Chicago 2011 - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Chicago Illinois

Cecil Touchon, Director
The Fluxmuseum
http://fluxmuseum.org

All Systems Go for STS-133. We Hope!!!

2011-02-17T15:28:00.000-08:00

Good news! After months of delays, Space Shuttle Mission STS-133 is scheduled to launch on Thursday February 24, 2011 at 4:50 PM, EST from the Kennedy Space Center, FL - USA.

Let's hope for a spectacular lift-off and a safe return. In addition to carrying a large portion of our Fluxface in Space images, the Space Shuttle Discovery will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier-4 (ELC-4), a Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) and critical spare components to the International Space Station.

Update: The final mission STS-134 is scheduled for late April 2011. The actual date is uncertain at this time.

For those who haven't heard, the commander of this final Shuttle Mission, STS-134, will be Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was seriously wounded by a gunman on January 8, 2011 in an assassination attempt. Gabrielle is making a remarkable recovery and it is hoped she will be attending the launch ceremony.

Gary A. Bibb

Fluxface in Space - Exhibition Book

2010-10-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

The Fluxface in Space exhibition book is now available for purchase online: www.lulu.com/product/paperback/fluxface-in-space/12554445

Please order copies for yourself, family, friends, libraries, etc.

FiS at the Ft. Worth Art Center

2010-10-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

The Fluxmuseum presents Fluxface in Space
Oct 8 - 30, 2010
Fort Worth Community Art Center
Fort Worth, TX
photo: Fluxmuseum

FiS at the Kennedy Space Center

2010-09-13T21:36:00.000-07:00

A brief presentation of Fluxface in Space took place on Sept. 13, 2010 at the Kennedy Space Center - Merritt Island, FL (USA). Participating artist, Ginny Lloyd made the arrangements.

Fluxface in Space arrives at the Kennedy Space Center.

Please note: Fluxmuseum Director, Cecil Touchon, compiled a portfolio containing printed images of all the entries. For safety and security purposes (damage or loss) this folio was sent to the KSC event instead of the original artworks.

Thanks to Everyone

2010-08-04T21:21:00.000-07:00

I would like to thank Gary and Angela and all of the wonderful artists who have contributed to this historic exhibition. I am not sure any other museum can claim to have had the first contemporary, international group art exhibition in space. If anyone knows of such I would like to hear about it. Otherwise, congratulations to everyone for our wonderful success. I see that there are many fine works and what an inspiring display of global participation with artists from 26 countries! It is also a pleasure to see photos of all of the artists.

The shuttle missions will take off, I believe once this fall and the other early next year. So we will have to see what we can do to stir up some interest in our project as the launches approach. We shall like to have the exhibit travel around the surface of the world as well as in orbit and be seen by many. If you think you can arrange an exhibition in your city please drop a line to discuss the idea and place your city on the itinerary. The exhibitions will have to be arranged much like the Book About Death, in established art centers, museums or other art gallery environments. The exhibits could be as short as a week or even weekend so that we can arrange as many as possible in the coming months. If you have a science museum in your area perhaps they may have an interest in such an exhibit.

If you have a website or other online blog, network site page etc. please post an image of Angela's lovely rocket postcard and a link to this blog to help draw more audience to the exhibition.

Again thank you for making this a great exhibition.
Cecil Touchon, Director
The Fluxmuseum
http://fluxmuseum.org

FiS

2010-08-03T12:25:00.001-07:00

We are honored to have so many wonderful artists participating in this project. Thank you!

Exhibits of this project are being planned for the near and distant future. If you are associated with an exhibition venue or have suggestions for FiS (Fluxface in Space) exhibition opportunities, please contact Cecil Touchon at the Fluxmuseum. cecil_touchon@fluxmuseum.org

A new exhibition website is now online: wix.com/fluxfaceinspace/exhibit - please share the experience.

Thanks again - Gary, Cecil and Angela

Exhibition Slide Show

2010-08-02T18:37:00.000-07:00

Fluxface in Space

Jaromir Svozilik (127)

2010-08-02T16:15:00.000-07:00

Jaromir Svozilik (Norway)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Nerina Cocchi Zecchini (126)

2010-08-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

Nerina Cocchi Zecchini (Italy)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://nerinacocchizecchini.org

Jussara Pires (125)

2010-08-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

Jussara Pires (Brazil)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Janine Nichols (124)

2010-08-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

Janine Nichols (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.flutterbox.net
www.semi-free.com
www.jazzpaperscissors.blogspot.com

Elisabetta Oneto (123)

2010-08-02T16:10:00.000-07:00

Elisabetta Oneto (Italy)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Luisa Bergamini (122)

2010-08-02T16:08:00.000-07:00

Luisa Bergamini (Italy)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Jean Pierre Machan - aka M. (121)

2010-08-02T14:45:00.000-07:00

Jean Pierre Machan - aka M. (France)
Space Shutte Mission: STS - 133

John Robertson & Judy Rifka (120)

2010-08-02T14:38:00.000-07:00

John Robertson & Judy Rifka (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
johnrobertsonart.com
judyrifka.com

Chris Mudhead Reynolds (119)

2010-08-02T14:35:00.000-07:00

Chris Mudhead Reynolds (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
flumembrain.blogspot.com

Daniel de Culla (118)

2010-08-02T14:30:00.000-07:00

Daniel de Culla (Spain)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Sandra de Souza (117)

2010-08-02T14:25:00.000-07:00

Sandra de Souza (Brazil)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
sandramarc@ibest.com.br

Ginny Lloyd (116)

2010-08-02T12:15:00.000-07:00

Ginny Lloyd (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://ginnylloyd.blogspot.com

Art In Space – the Universe is One Big Art Gallery!

Ed Varney (115)

2010-08-02T05:28:00.000-07:00

Ed Varney (Canada)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
evarney@shaw.ca

Tulio Restrepo Echeverri (114)

2010-08-02T05:18:00.001-07:00

Tulio Restrepo Echeverri (Colombia)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
tulio.restrepo@une.net.co
http://www.zonapostal.info

Mary Campbell (113)

2010-08-02T05:04:00.001-07:00

Mary Campbell (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
"Moon over the Verranzano Bridge"

Ianik Marcil (112)

2010-08-02T04:57:00.000-07:00

Ianik Marcil (Canada)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Holly Armishaw (111)

2010-08-01T18:13:00.000-07:00

Holly Armishaw (Canada)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://www.hollyarmishaw.com

Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas (110)

2010-08-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas (Brazil)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS 133
www.frestaverde.blogspot.com
www.coletivo308.blogspot.com
www.chamaeleonidae.blogspot.com

"Green Man"
Drawing ink on paper - 2010

Peace to all people.
Ethical and spiritual growth.

D. S. H. Watson (109)

2010-08-01T14:59:00.001-07:00

D. S. H. Watson (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Question: Question? I don’t even know how to ask the question. If everything in our human consciousness occupies physical space in time and has a beginning and an ending, how is it possible that the Universe has always been? If not, what was there before? If it’s expanding... expanding into what? These questions have haunted physicists, astronomers, philosophers, and spawned many a religion since the beginning of recorded history.

To me art is a personal exploration of the misunderstood. Space exploration, is a collective expansion of our understanding of the incomprehensible. This collective knowledge is built one upon the other much like the development of art. Thanks to the Shuttle Program and the Hubble Telescope we’ve taken yet another step toward understanding these riddles of the universe.

May there be many more events to come:

SPACE EVENT

• liftoff

• weightlessness

• landing

André Assis (108)

2010-08-01T13:32:00.000-07:00

André Assis (Brazil)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://beebox.designup.pro.br

Title: "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"

James Hathaway (107)

2010-08-01T12:16:00.000-07:00

James Hathaway (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Brian Carter (106)

2010-08-01T12:09:00.000-07:00

Brian Carter (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Jo Bradford (105)

2010-08-01T11:43:00.000-07:00

Jo Bradford (United Kingdom)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
www.jobradford.com

I have been making an ongoing series of space themed work called Constructing Space, since 2004.

I make my art by combining two obscure techniques that are primarily photographic but utilise on painting and drawing practices as well, the resulting works are classed as Cliché Verre Photograms.

The art is made using meteorites. This cosmic material is placed in contact with light sensitive paper in a colour darkroom before colour exposures are made through glass plates onto which I have drawn and painted planets, moons or other celestial objects.

In the exposure process, various timed exposures of filtered coloured light change the colour of the paper. If exposed for long enough, the paper turns black. The areas where the stardust blocks the light remains white, thus the meteorites and stardust created the stars in my pictures.

Some of the work in the series “Constructing Space” was created using interstellar dust, meteorites and other cosmic material at the Natural History Museum in London, where I have been allowed on occasion to set up a darkroom in the basement of the museum, and am given access to the British National Meteorite Collection to work with.

I am based in Cornwall, UK, where I work full time at Green Island Studios, my studio and darkroom facility.

Shirley Hathaway (104)

2010-08-01T11:24:00.001-07:00

Shirley Hathaway (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Susan M. Gibbons (103)

2010-08-01T11:16:00.001-07:00

Susan M. Gibbons (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Title: Nebula

Milanka Bunard (102)

2010-08-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

Milanka Bunard (Canada)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
http://milankabunard.com

Mark Bloch (101)

2010-07-31T20:47:00.001-07:00

Mark Bloch (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.panmodern.com

When we think about going into outer space and leaving the earth behind, we should consider where we are trying to go and why. I used to have a friend who was studying the Torah in Jerusalem and I told him in 1982 that I was thinking of moving to New York from Los Angeles where I was living at the time. He told me that the most important consideration should be what I was trying to get to in New York, not why I was leaving L.A. He said that when a person leaves a place it should not be that they want to leave that spot but why they want to go where they are going. It is in this spirit that we should move from Earth to someplace new. I hope that as we venture out we are not going to leave behind a damaged, defeated planet Earth but that we are instead moving with our heads held high toward someplace that will be even better and for all the right reasons. We must not continue to hurt this planet as if it is expendable. The planet will survive, after all. But it is humanity, we the people, that are in danger of not surviving. We must survive. We must repair this planet, learn to treat it and ourselves with respect and then we can move on to new destinations. Artists can lead in this respect. It has started with the moon during my lifetime, perhaps we can live somewhere else in the solar system, perhaps even further out than that. When I was a boy living in Ohio I remember the first time man orbited the Earth. It was John Glenn who was also from Ohio. I remember the black and white image on TV of that and I remember the beautiful color photos that came back from the moon with Neil Armstrong, another Ohioan walking around there in 1969. So many advances have occurred as a result of those missions and all the ones in between and before and after. I hope we continue to explore space and let our imaginations be our guide to these new destinations.

Betty Esperanza (100)

2010-07-31T20:22:00.001-07:00

Betty Esperanza (Canada)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.benudemedia.blogspot.com

Amy Scarola (99)

2010-07-31T20:11:00.000-07:00

Amy Scarola (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Leora Lutz (98)

2010-07-31T19:05:00.000-07:00

Leora Lutz (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
www.leoralutz.com

"Constellations & stars over the North Pole, including the Pole Star in blue and the following stars and formations in gold grommets: Orion, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Cornal Borealis, Pegasus, Corvus, Procyon and Sirius"
grommets, paper, cotton thread on vintage atlas page of Milky Way circa 1963.
4" x 6" 2010

--statement--

The art I make questions and defines our sense of place through the use of emotive words in conjunction with notions of man-made vs. natural environments and ephemeral movement. I use Language and man-made means to portray invisible lines such as plane flight, bullet paths, wind, and in this case, space travel.

Lately, I have been "translating" words into flight paths & denoting
constellations. These are reminders of mans' interaction with nature in the
largest, vast portion of the landscape - the Sky. With the advent of technology and science, man has created the ability to move through the sky, constantly crisscrossing through a place that cannot be fully inhabited. The sky is there, for us to interact with, only to find ourselves eventually grounded again.

In this lesson of seeming futility, perhaps this inquire into the unknown becomes a comforting cycle in exploring the things around us that are essentially outside our grasp.

Elizabeth Beckmann (97)

2010-07-31T18:58:00.000-07:00

Elizabeth Beckmann (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Parallax in Space 4x6

To always have questions and never enough answers, to always be at the beginning and never seeing the end, to always and never and back again the spiral turns in on itself as the scientist and the artist apply their knowledge and creative energies to their surroundings and beyond.

Rethinking space and time while maintaining the accumulative erudite works of those who came before them, the artist and scientist make it new. So new that each side’s nomenclatures change the everyday vocabulary of conventional thinking - Space/Time Continuum, Cubism, Quantum Mechanics, OP, Surrealism, Redshift, etc. Artist from Giotto to Rachel Whiteread and people of science such as Aristotle to Stephen Hawking create new space/time perceptions. Artists such as Paul Cezanne, and Jo Baer redefined the dimensions of space and time, as did Eisenstein and Gabriele Veneziano.

The mad scientist and the eccentric artist make good partners as well as real-life artist and scientist do. Andy Warhol and Billy Kluver from Bell Labs made the floating pillows. Arts and science conferences convene yearly in NY and other major cities worldwide. Vast are the similarities between artist and physicist that Leonard Shlain, parallels the advancements in arts to that in physics in his book Art and Physics. Simply put, artist and scientist deconstruct the parallax so easily because they have more fun doing it than any one else.

Layered w/silver pigment & combined w/geometric, OP Parallax in Space refracts light, hides & shows star design.

Lisa Temple-Cox (96)

2010-07-31T18:35:00.000-07:00

Lisa Temple-Cox (United Kingdom)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/lisatemplecox
www.lisatemple-cox.co.uk
www.cuckoofarmstudios.org.uk

Jennifer Kosharek (95)

2010-07-31T18:19:00.000-07:00

Jennifer Kosharek (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.jenniferzoe.blogspot.com

Caule Voleta (94)

2010-07-31T14:12:00.000-07:00

Caule Voleta (Macedonia)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

"Power & Victory"

Wendy Le Ber (93)

2010-07-31T13:05:00.000-07:00

Wendy Le Ber (United Kingdom)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Gretchen Biebaum (92)

2010-07-31T10:28:00.000-07:00

Gretchen Biebaum (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Collage titled: “Reaching for the Stars”

My collage/painting techniques very often have an abstract atmosphere of “floating” designs where the concept of space and time can be perceived. This phenomena may stem from my personal history with my father working at NASA. I have followed the space program since I was a child. My father worked on the moon landing as an engineer at the Lewis Space Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. When we landed on the moon, I was so excited that I chipped a tooth eating some food as I was watching television. My father was so immersed in the project that he did not watch the actual event.

Attached to my collage titled “Reaching for the Stars” is my father’s 25-year NASA service pin. He passed away 40 years ago when I was young so I cling to every object that he touched and think about him every time I watch a shuttle launch.

Ruggero Maggi (91)

2010-07-31T10:13:00.000-07:00

Ruggero Maggi (Italy)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.ruggeromaggi.it

www.camera312.it

neRRaDa (90)

2010-07-31T10:03:00.000-07:00

neRRaDa (Australia)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Bill Friesen (89)

2010-07-31T06:38:00.000-07:00

Bill Friesen (Canada)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Janice McDonald (88)

2010-07-30T17:15:00.000-07:00

Janice McDonald (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://www.janicemcdonald.com

When I was a kid we used to make space "helmets" out of paper grocery bags. We'd cut curves in the sides so they'd sit on our shoulders. Then we'd cut a big square in the front with a little hole below. We'd carefully tape clear plastic wrap over the square opening, from the inside, so that we could peer out through a shield of sorts. The round hole was for breathing and communicating with other neighborhood astronauts. Often we also designed and added insignia, antennae, or other decorations. We were perhaps easily entertained by today's standards, but the helmets provided hours of pretend play and exploration.

I still remember watching a television broadcast of men walk on the moon, while sitting with my grandmother, who had crossed into Oklahoma as a girl in a covered wagon while it was still Indian territory! We were both mesmerized. She had never gotten over being amazed by air travel so this event was beyond anything she could imagine.

I find it interesting that the US President who encouraged our space endeavors, and a whole generation, also loved the arts so much:

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." —John F. Kennedy

What fun that a bit of my artistic vision will blast off soon!

Kelly Gorman (87)

2010-07-30T17:03:00.001-07:00

Kelly Gorman (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.kellygorman.com

"Collage, Photomontage and the Universe".

Artists and Astronomers physically explore the universe in order to redefine and engage with existence. Just as the universe is constantly expanding, so is our knowledge of life close to us and the existence of space that is far from us. Culture may be our local knowledge base, but we must ask ourselves how we define culture and ourselves in relation to the universe as a whole?

Redefining our place and role in the universe allows us to understand the source of creation, whether that is the creation of all forms of life or humans creating works of art. This acknowledgement and exploration of existence provides grounding in an understanding of our role in the universe. Collage and photomontage incorporate collections of symbols, metaphors and thoughts of life lived. This juxtaposition of remnants in the creation of art allows for new thoughts and representations to be conveyed in a contemporary way. Elements that appear to be merged together randomly form new waves of thought. They allow us to question the fundamental relationship of object and space in ways we never would have imagined. The universe teaches us that every atom in existence can form and reshape itself to become something wholly new in its ever-flowing process. Collage and photomontage can be said to represent this process of retrieving, reusing and reshaping parts that become something all together new.

Written by Kelly Gorman

Kathy Slamen (86)

2010-07-30T13:24:00.000-07:00

Kathy Slamen (Canada)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.kathyslamen.com

Hernán Talavera (85)

2010-07-30T13:08:00.000-07:00

Hernán Talavera (Spain)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.hernantalavera.blogspot.com

Chuck Feesago (84)

2010-07-30T11:05:00.000-07:00

Chuck Feesago (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

feesago.com

Ivana Rezek (83)

2010-07-30T07:40:00.000-07:00

Ivana Rezek (Croatia)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://ivanarezek.carbonmade.com
http://ivanasartwork.blogspot.com

Seano Whitecloud (82)

2010-07-30T07:23:00.000-07:00

Seano Whitecloud (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
www.seano.me

Marci Katz (81)

2010-07-30T05:30:00.000-07:00

Marci Katz (Canada)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://web.me.com/marse/Marci_Katz/Home.html

Christopher W. Luhar-Trice (80)

2010-07-29T17:38:00.000-07:00

Christopher W. Luhar-Trice (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

I look forward to the last two shuttle missions with some degree of sadness - the shuttle program has been a constant throughout most of my life. I remember both the consuming excitement that accompanied the first few years of launches, and the terrible tragedies of the Challenger and Columbia. I’ve seen shuttle launches transition from major media events to something that scarcely rates a passing mention on the evening news. As the shuttle program ends, I wonder what will be the future of manned space exploration. My piece for this exhibition is a reflection of my long-time fascination with space travel, and with the less remembered contributors to our exploration of that great frontier. Laika the dog, a humble stray from Moscow’s streets, was the Soviet Union’s first Cosmonaut. She gave her life in service of our pursuit of the stars, likely dying within the first four orbits due to a cooling system malfunction. It warms my heart to think that I have, in a way, helped her fly again on the final mission of the space shuttle.

Karen A. Miller (79)

2010-07-29T16:59:00.000-07:00

Karen A. Miller (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.KarenMillerArt.com

True to an Aquarian child’s spirit, the 1960s Apollo Program intrigued me – Exotic - Unique - A Journey - A Discovery - A Galactic Event - The Dawning of a New Age “…Peace for All Mankind.” Apollo 11’s Columbia/Eagle successfully launched as the first manned lunar landing! Then, on July 20, 1969, the Eagle landed in the Sea of Tranquility! Ah, but, this is where a twist of events occur. According to my creative version: Neil Armstrong & Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin take their historic walk on the Moon, plant the American Flag, leave a plaque, collect moon rocks, and, do what all good tourists do – take pictures. Then, they celebrate the 1^st Happy Hour on the Moon with their Kittynaut mate, HappyHourKitty, while sipping on Blue Moon Martinis!

“Kittynaut’s 1^st Happy Hour on the Moon” – is whimsical postcard-size art created for the FLUXFACE IN SPACE project as a unique, mixed-media collage intuitively repurposing a vintage 1969 postcard featuring an official NASA photograph from the Apollo 11 Mission. Embellishments and uniquely textured moon rocks created with kitty litter, red wine, glitters and adhesives complete the work. An interesting fact, the photograph of the collage was taken on July 20, 2010.

Historically, artwork has always been an integral part of the space program. For instance: Michael Collins sketched Apollo 11’s Mission Insignia patch. Also, examples of Apollo 11-related artwork have been featured on such items as stamps and coins. And, now, HappyHourKitty Art is part of it!

Gianfranco Maletti (78)

2010-07-29T16:50:00.000-07:00

Gianfranco Maletti (Italy)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
www.malettigianfranco.it
malettigianfranco@alice.it

"The Shuttle enters the legend"
"Lo Shuttle entra nella leggenda"

Elizabeth Zois (77)

2010-07-29T13:12:00.001-07:00

Elizabeth Zois (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Lynn Palmiter (76)

2010-07-29T13:03:00.000-07:00

Lynn Palmiter (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Markus Brillert (75)

2010-07-29T12:55:00.000-07:00

Markus Brillert (Germany)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.art-highway.de

Statement: Art is the universal language: on earth and in outer space!

Miguel Jimenez (74)

2010-07-29T10:45:00.000-07:00

Miguel Jimenez (Spain)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.eltallerdezenon.com

Miguel Jimenez was born in Avila, Spain in 1953. Major Degree in Arts, studied Art and Architecture in Sevilla and Salamanca. He is a Plastic artist, and lives in Sevilla where he created El Taller de Zenón, an organization devoted to the research and creation of image, with constant presence in Internet by means of its website. Their plastic work, as much in painting as in other techniques has taken to the Visual Poetry. He contributes regularly and he has made his works known in numerous magazines and publications of art and visual poetry in Europe and America, and he has appeared in several poetic anthologies. Also he usually participates in expositions and collective projects of Visual Poetry and Postal Art throughout the world.

Karl Young (73)

2010-07-29T05:50:00.000-07:00

Karl Young (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/young.html

From Stellar Dreams Above the Middle Kingdom, by Karl Young

Observing natural phenomena, including the night sky, as well as the footprints of birds and animals, patterns of wind on grass and water, may have taken part in the origin of language by our pre-human ancestors. Astral events and cosmology have played a role in poetry, including suggestions for formal innovation - from the earliest records to the present, just as they have in everything from planting crops to the most bluntly practical technology. In the set of poems from which this passage comes, dreams and stars wander in and out of each other, and in and out of poetry of T'ang Dynasty China. The couplet in the English language, using the Roman alphabet balances paired lights with meteor showers, as Wai Ying-Wu's poem suggests that the falling of a pine cone indicates that his wife at their distant home shares his insomnia. My poem suggests connections with the origins of language (one of the things that makes us human), of writing, a particularly important example of writing as use a millennium and a third ago on the other side of the world, and the necessity of simultaneously understanding cosmology and ourselves, as the mail art network makes its first baby steps beyond the stratosphere. And doing so at a time when this genre with its roots in the Cold War could use some stellar guidance.

Douglas Burkett (72)

2010-07-28T20:01:00.000-07:00

Douglas Burkett (USA)
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William Monachesi (71)

2010-07-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

William Monachesi (Brazil)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

THE VOYAGER

Fluxface... Now, with the wings of imagination, the Voyager can fly and through the Art, meet the Brave New World.

Chuck Mintz (70)

2010-07-28T13:43:00.000-07:00

Chuck Mintz (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.album-project.com

www.chuckmintz.com

Being an artist is my third career. My first was engineering. In many ways they are the same. They are about dreams. They are the result of problem solving. When you are done, you have made something that did not exist before. When you do it well, everything you include is necessary. There are differences. Engineering paid a lot better. When you made something work, it worked. Did not matter what anyone thought. Well, not much. I need to stop writing. I am starting to miss it.

Kathy Burkett (69)

2010-07-28T13:37:00.001-07:00

Kathy Burkett (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Cathy Botch (68)

2010-07-27T19:13:00.001-07:00

Cathy Botch (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/c/catbotch
http://www.flashpointcreativity.com
http://www.blueunicornstudio.com

Dedicated to all at the Space Center

for their fearless curiosity for explorative adventure, which has engendered milestones in scientific discoveries and inventions in medicine, information, technology, and travel collectively and creatively redesigning our life and our world. Beginning as an attraction, developing into fascination, swelling to a passion for dreaming and wondering “what is out there?”, has inspired creativity, ingenuity and possibilities not only in themselves but others. And, We have all benefitted from these self-made challenges fulfilled.

Bibiana Padilla Maltos (67)

2010-07-27T18:58:00.000-07:00

Bibiana Padilla Maltos (México)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.padillamaltos.blogspot.com

Marianne Laimer (66)

2010-07-27T18:49:00.000-07:00

Marianne Laimer (Sweden)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
www.mariannelaimer.wordpress.com

Tis Michalous (65)

2010-07-27T18:26:00.000-07:00

Tis Michalous (Greece)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
http://www.michalous.com

MICHALOUS' statement

Between mountains and clouds meeting each other, nearby a lake changing colors every day, this is the place visual artist Ioannis MICHALOU(di)S has chosen to have his atelier/lab. This first cloud-hunter follows Centaurs’ and Nymphs’ footprints, lies in wait of air streams, grapping pieces of sky… shaping them, molding them, creating “images of forms” and baptizing them as aer( )sculptures¹.

99,9% air and 0,1% glass is the composition of every aer( )sculpture. In Space Technology, this same composition is named silica aerogel. This immaterial material is the lightest solid on planet Earth –with three Guinness Prizes- and is used also by NASA as an excellent heat insulator for spacecrafts and for stardust collection, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/stardust/photo/aerogel.html

MICHALOU(di)S is the first visual artist worldwide bringing this ethereal material in Art, choosing to hunt with it skies and dreams.

Despite the fact that the space technology required for the creation of the aer( )sculptures costs inevitably a lot in time and money, the results are always amazing: weightless sculptures having the ability to hover or float opening, this way, new paths towards a Space Art era where the light and immaterial opens a dialog or replace the heavy and voluminous.

Each aer( )sculpture is -at the same time- a “ready made” but also a masterpiece. And that because the inner world of every aer( )sculpture is different thanks to the microcosmos seen throughout the sculpture: airy clouds, fragments of gold, orbits of planets creating “spaces in between”. Light and shadow is one more dialogue opened when a light beam transpierces each blue aer( )sculpture projecting their transparent goldhue shadow in orbit.

If humans are (organic) carbon based representations then every aer( )sculpture is an (inorganic) silica based representation. We know that silica -the natural glass, other than the chemical silicone- is a basic component for the industrial fabrication of data storage devices for computers, cf. Silicon Valley, CA. If we accept now the hypothesis that one day silica will be the Bank of all human memory then we can surely say that every aer( )sculpture travels also as a Memory Ark².

Past, Present and Future are melted together into an unknown infinity where Space and Time become Logos.

Into an endless beginning…

1. A legend says that these “non hand made” aer( )sculptures made out of pieces of sky had caused the ozone’s hole phenomenon !?…

2.Another legend wants the aer( )sculptures to be transferred by spacecrafts to other planets in order to be used for a sky cloning project.

Carlene Frances (64)

2010-07-27T06:30:00.001-07:00

Carlene Frances (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
carlenefrances.com

Frederick B. Epistola (63)

2010-07-27T04:05:00.000-07:00

Frederick B. Epistola (Philippines)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Laura Malacart (62)

2010-07-27T03:58:00.001-07:00

Laura Malacart (United Kingdom)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Lubomyr Tymkiv (61)

2010-07-26T16:43:00.000-07:00

Lubomyr Tymkiv (Ukraine)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://suxulf.blogspot.com

Hope Kroll (60)

2010-07-26T16:27:00.000-07:00

Hope Kroll (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Nikki Soppelsa (59)

2010-07-26T16:08:00.000-07:00

Nikki Soppelsa (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS-134

I was a little kid when I looked through my stepdad's army binocs to see the moon up close for the first time. Craters I could curl up in! I reached out my hand to touch the moon only to find it was still too far away. I've not stopped looking up since. With an observatory just one street over, I've been taken to heights, to sights that just mesmerize. I always end with reaching to touch the moon.

Dilar Pereira (58)

2010-07-26T11:53:00.000-07:00

Dilar Pereira (Portugal)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

http://dailycollageproject.blogspot.com

Space and art in our lives

There are numerous aspects to pulling together such an association:
how these universes will be explored and confronted; the centrality of
both in the encounter of self; some integrity problems to address;
queries over alterity must be efficient in order to scale; the
interaction and visualization must afford both an effective
stimulating and finite negotiation as a means to interrogate their
content meaningfully; and so on…

Space exploration plays a vital role through highly interactive search
of data under conflicting environments. Art provides a data framework
in which patterns and implications inherent in the content yields a
variety of visualizations and multi-dimensional representations that
generate highly individual specific content exploration, meaning and
appreciation direct or intuitive.

Space and art could be pretexts to flourish and expand the horizons of
individual and collective knowledge. What sustains a comprehensive
meaning of both worlds is the basis of an ancient idea of mimetic
aptitude suggesting that the ability to mime is the capacity to
realize the Other. And this other is a representation of oneself. It
corresponds to configurations that ultimately are reached through
space exploration and art by the understanding of concepts such as
abstraction, scale, arbitrariness or simplification in conjunction to
one self.

Neil Horsky, Tessa Moderski, Arthur Chaillou (57)

2010-07-26T11:48:00.001-07:00

Neil Horsky, Tessa Moderski and Arthur Chaillou (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

www.fluxusignments.com

Heather Matthew (56)

2010-07-26T09:24:00.001-07:00

Heather Matthew (Australia)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133
http://bboxproductions.blogspot.com

The first page in my primary school atlas always contained pictures of the galaxy, with the names of all the planets and their orbiting rings. The sun was in the top right hand corner, the most important golden jewel in the galaxy, radiating light and inspiration.
It’s no wonder that at the age of nine I wanted to be an astronaut, and watched the first mission to the moon with all my school friends on our little black and white television at home – the school had a day off to celebrate!
In my collages I always try to include some postage stamps, these called Terrain and Flight Crew celebrate our ongoing fascination with all things galactic.

James Needham-Walker (55)

2010-07-25T05:45:00.001-07:00

James Needham-Walker (Australia)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

Space is Spacey: Flux is Fluxy.

Together they form Psycufaexly.

Space exploration is Psycufaexly.

Psycufaexly

adjective

meaning to approach a task with

the intention of creating an original thought

or new paradigm

origin early 21st century neologism

Michael Arata (54)

2010-07-24T15:14:00.000-07:00

Michael Arata (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

The art work I sent is titled "White Hole". Light and airy as opposed to the intense gravity of a Black Hole. This pertains to space exploration as it applies to the principals used in visual art work. Notably the active area between pictorial elements sometimes referred to as negative space or empty space. This White Hole happens to be manifested and personified (eyes) as the OK hand symbol ( "good to go" or "Launch). Possibly extraterrestrial.

Michael Arata, "White Hole"

Vicky Cull (53)

2010-07-24T13:58:00.000-07:00

Vicky Cull (United Kingdom)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

http://www.vickycull.com
vickycull.blogspot.com

Title of image : Major William A. Anders, USAF, Apollo 8 Mission.

Statement:

I am interested in taking the seemingly ordinary and making it extra-ordinary. I work with found imagery; embellishing, re-working, manipulating and re-constructing these supposedly one-dimensional works to create a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional finished product. For these Fluxface works I have looked at the idea of the Sublime as discussed by Lyotard, the idea that the stars in the sky are finite but the number is so enormous that we cannot, as humans, compute its actuality. I hope that in some way the images discuss this, letting the viewer think of the nearly unfathomable dimensions of space.

Arlene Rabinowitz (52)

2010-07-24T13:40:00.001-07:00

Arlene Rabinowitz (South Africa)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

http://www.arlene-rabinowitz.artistwebsites.com

http://www.visualmusic.ning.com/profile/ArleneRabinowitz

Space Exploration - The Universe

In this work I illustrated that our five sense perceptions (sight, hearing, taste smell and touch) are limited in having boundaries on earth. There is a possibility to develop however an added sense a sixth sense. With this sense one can perceive the space around us, the universe as ever expanding.

Karlyn Atkinson Berg (51)

2010-07-23T20:01:00.001-07:00

Karlyn Atkinson Berg (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

www.karlynatkinsonberg.com

Like winged birds and angels man now takes to flight. Now man reaches high into to space where colors, meteors, and other beautiful worlds put mankind in awe. I hope that space will be a place to explore, not just astronomy, but like art open our eyes to a universe of beauty.

Cecil Touchon & Noor Touchon (50)

2010-07-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

Cecil Touchon (USA)
Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134
cecil.touchon.com
touchon.com

Director of the Ontological Museum - ontologicalmuseum.org

Space is a pretty scary place when you start thinking about it very deeply. It is so big and empty and silent. Then to imagine being stuck on a little tiny space ship floating around a planet that you always felt at home on and see it as a little ball slowly spinning around in circles. It must look so fragile from up there and so spectacular and majestic. Then to look around and see that ocean of stars that stretches out at an unimaginable distance. It must be dumbfounding and stressful and yet exhilarating! The emotion of it must be hard to describe. Then to think of how precious life is and to wonder at how we can be so unappreciative of our lives and willing to be so cruel and unfeeling toward each other when our joint existence is so tenuous. I appreciate the space program for what it has done to widen the horizons of those with imagination.

Echo June Vincent (49)

2010-07-22T13:06:00.000-07:00

Echo June Vincent (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

"There is never really one place, but many places, and the space they occupy is only the barest of possibility."

Nicholas Sheram (48)

2010-07-22T13:02:00.001-07:00

Nicholas Sheram (USA)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

"Art is continually required to expand beyond its current capacities and capabilities and ascend to a higher framework, requiring the continual exploration of the self. As the boundaries of our world expand, so do our paramaters of the self."

Frie J. Jacobs (47)

2010-07-22T12:56:00.000-07:00

Frie J. Jacobs (Belgium)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.frie-j-jacobs.be

Matthew Rose (46)

2010-07-21T06:37:00.000-07:00

Matthew Rose (USA) (France)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

HTTP://MATTHEWROSESTUDIO.NET/

HTTP://MATTHEWROSESTUDIO.BLOGSPOT.COM/

Since the age of four one summer night staring into the starlit sky, I've always wanted to be launched into space, released from gravity and the specifics of this world. And in that desire, to know without knowing, the consequence of drowning in love. Space Boy, my alter ego – me, now– living out of a wet dream orbiting the void of infinite darkness, finally finally finally finds his wings. My guess: This is all physics and God. And after an eternity, I reach for the membrane – the tidy but elusive bag that is the outer limit of space, this expanding joke we're stuck in – I can feel the end of this story, but can't comprehend it. Certainly, I hear voices, technical ones, singing, too. Angels or the whisking of matter into the friendly neighborhood black hole? I have a series of questions written down, ready to ask, and now now now on the very edge of verisimilitude my reasons for traveling this far are clear, and the answers come pitter pat pitter pat pitter pat raining down raining down. To know right place, right time... the big sleep. Am I only a pile of earth connected by tubes and machines monitoring my all? And just before I fall backwards to the infinite beginning, the mise en abyme, I am reassured by voices (my own?) that ... the attempt is all.

Virginia Milici (45)

2010-07-21T06:31:00.001-07:00

Virginia Milici (Italy)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

www.virginiamilici.org
http://arteinvolovirgy.blogspot.com

Ora finalmente sarò libera di volteggiare nello spazio della mia liberta .Girerò liberà per l'eternità. Unico desiderio: Caro Alieno! Se t'innamori delle mie nudità amami, ma lasciami libera e ti amerò! M.Virgy
Treviso (Italy)

Now I am finally free to twirl in the space of my freedom. Turns freely for eternity. One wish: Dear Alien! If you love me fall in love [with] my nakedness, but set me free and I will love you!

JF Chapelle (44)

2010-07-20T09:32:00.000-07:00

JF Chapelle (France)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 133

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24314916@N03/

David Symons (43)

2010-07-19T10:02:00.001-07:00

David Symons (UK)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

http://www.davidsymons.org

Statement:

Golden discs, a picture of a man and woman holding hands, letters, music, mirrors, DNA models and the actual space craft that carry them are all they will find of our civilization after a million years of drifting through space.

What will the life forms that find it make of our culture?

Perhaps the space craft will crash on another planet and bacteria will ooze from the wreckage in to a lifeless sea and thrive and the whole cycle will start again?

Gordana Kostic (42)

2010-07-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

Gordana Kostic (Serbia)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Marina Miletic (41)

2010-07-17T19:11:00.001-07:00

Marina Miletic (Serbia)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Katarina Kostic (40)

2010-07-17T19:08:00.001-07:00

Katarina Kostic (Serbia)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134

Patrick Anderson McQuoid (39)

2010-07-17T19:03:00.000-07:00

Patrick Anderson McQuoid (Ireland)

Space Shuttle Mission: STS - 134