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Topic: Future of NASA's Art Program ('Arts + Mars')
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-21-2016 08:28 AM
Atlas Obscura reports about a recent meeting in Connecticut between a group of four scientists from NASA, including an astronaut, a robotics expert, and the agency's deputy administrator, and 30 painters, sculptors and poets to engage an "artistic response" to NASA's journey to Mars. The question they were asking the assembled artists was whether they could help communicate this vision to the public as part of a new program entitled "Arts + Mars".Some of the artists were left scratching their heads. Many of them, schooled in the ambiguities and anti-authoritarian verities of contemporary art, saw NASA's open call for guileless propaganda as being entirely at odds with the art they practice. "The conversation about art was at such a naïve level," said one attendee, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of rousing the space agency's ire. "It just didn't seem like NASA was that interested in what we had to say." What's more the overtly commercial and exploitative language of the Mars boosters — their mentions of partnerships with private industry and "putting tracks on Mars" — did not play well with their youngish, liberal audience. | |
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