Art is often an act of venturing into the unknown, of starting something without knowing the outcome. Maybe that’s why so many artists have undertaken expeditions, whether setting out to ride the abandoned railroads of Mexico in a custom-built spaceship, teaching a flock of geese to fly to the moon, or patiently navigating the path of the sun across the Mojave Desert.
Tracking Artists’ Expeditions, from Glacier Surveys to a Search for Nixon’s Missing Moon Rocks
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#Agnes Meyer-Brandis #Andres Padilla Domene #Annabel Elgar #apexart #art and science #Exploration #Heidi Neilson #Ivan Puig #James Balog #Robert Rauschenberg #The X-Hunters #William LamsonSpace exploration and the science fiction imagination of alien encounters out in the stars reached their peak of optimistic possibility between the 1940s and 1970s, culminating with the first moon landing in 1969. In Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, the impact of that potential and its complicated legacy is questioned through 60 artworks.
(via A Homemade Artist Train Runs on the Abandoned Rails of Mexico)
From 2010 to 2012, Mexican artists and brothers Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene set out to ride those nearly 9,000 kilometers of rails in a retro-future exploratory vehicle called the SEFT-1.
Photos from Greg Allen’s Exhibition Space show (March 21–May 8, 2013) at Apexart in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
Star Search: Heaven’s Map for Getting Lost
NGS-POSS Plate O636, taken December 13, 1952 (all images courtesy Apexart)
“Billions and billions…
The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe. The 1515 maps of constellations from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres combined the scientific knowledge of the stars with Dürer’s illustrations.
Celestial Art and Science in Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 Star Charts
art and science, Marcus DeSieno, photography (via Portraying the Monstrous Elegance of Parasites with Tintypes)
Tapeworms, leeches, lice, bedbugs, fleas, and ticks — the litany of Marcus DeSieno‘s photographic subjects is enough to cause a few paranoid itches. In the Parasites series, he combined electron microscope technology with 19th century alternative processes to face his own fears of these odious creatures that infest human bodies.
A movie set amongst the machines of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics facility, considers how both art and science strive to understand the universe, and what it is to be human. Symmetry, a “dance and opera film,” premiered last month at the Amsterdam Cinedans festival, following a scientist who transforms into a dancer, and celebrating both roles as portals for contemplating the particle components of existence.
An Opera Filmed at the Largest Particle Physics Lab in the World
New Online Magazine Bridges the Divide Between Art and Science
Detail of the cover of the October 2013 issue of SciArt in America, showing the “Observe”…
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This week, New York offers the silly and the serious: at Apexart, karaoke takes…
