Yael Frank
Gravity Drama!
2022
Digital, iPad
n/a
status:
An AR site specific artwork, taking astronauts on a suggestive journey throughout the physical environment of the International Space Station.
Gravity Drama! Yael Frank’s new work suggests the creation of an artistic experience for the astronauts, tailored to their circumstances. This is a digital-theatrical work, which animates the objects in the Space Station through “planting” absurd scenes within the given space.
The virtual appearance of pointless objects and situations, devoid of any logic, within the hyper mechanized, monitored and computerized environment, in which every moment, every inch is used for research and for humanity’s advancement, seeks to face off the micro-culture and the micro-science in a broader sense, in order to pose the question - is it possible to create a “greedy” cultural experience in the austere, functionality and extreme environment of scientific human presence in space?
Through scanning codes, which will be spread throughout the Station, an app will be activated, enabling us to experience the various scenes and objects through an iPad screen simulating live video photography of the zone toward which the camera is directed. This way the entire Space Station actually becomes a virtual work of art.
Technical information
artist
Yael Frank
title
Gravity Drama!
date
2022
medium
Digital, iPad
dimensions
n/a
genre
Software
IAAA art style
this work is part of the following collection
Rakia Art Project
artwork COSPAR id
Launch
Space
Return
launch date
8 Apr 2022
launch mission
Axiom Mission 1
launch provider
SpaceX
return date
return vehicle
return location
launch location
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
host vehicle
International Space Station
return vehicle COSPAR id
launching state
location
USA
LEO, International Space Station (ISS)
host vehicle COSPAR id
1998-067A
status
Unknown
launch vehicle COSPAR id
2022-037A
partners
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