S.T.E.A.M. SCREEN DOCUMENTARYSCHEDULE AND PROGRAM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics/Music)

Frank Pietronigro, CuratorInterdisciplinary ArtistCo-Founder and Project Director of the ZERO GRAVITY ARTS CONSORTIUMAssociate Fellow, STUDIO For Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie MellonUniversitywww.pietronigro.com www.zgac.org

Allan & Sun McNamee-Lundell, STEAM Screen Hosts & FacilitatorsDocumentary Program Operations, Interactivity and Virtual ConnectionsEvolutionary Agents and Digital Media Artists www.Virtual World Studio.com and www.FuturePeak.net

Celestine Star, Media Production Management and CoordinatorMember Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008 Production TeamBoard Member Zero Gravity Arts ConsortiumPresident, Golden Star Productions, Marin, CAwww.goldenstarproductions.com

S.T.E.A.M. OVERVIEW

Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008 S.T.E.A.M. SCREEN Documentary Program willopen an international interactive and informative window across the fascinatinguniverse of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics / Musiic(S.T.E.A.M.) for the participants at Yuri's Night 2008. The program will alsofeature fascinating documentary programs with live and virtual presentationsshowcasing various international space artists, scientists, engineers andmathematicians. This unique scientific and artistic venue will be presented incollaboration with NASA Media Center, NASA AMES Video Group, TheHubble European Space Agency Information Center, Maison d’Ailleurs,Switzerland’s Museum of Science Fiction, The Studio for Creative Inquiry atCarnegie Mellon University, Space Art One, Golden Star Productions, VirtualWorld Studio and the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

2:00 – 3:30 PM - CHILL S.T.E.A.M. with DJ Jeff Stallings

2:00 – 3:00 PM – IMAGE MONTAGEHubble: 15 Years of DiscoveryandScience Fiction / Technology FactCollection of Images From Maison d'Ailleurs/Agence Martienne with the support from theEuropean Space Agency

3:00 – 3:15 PMSpace Exploration In Art with Don Davis

3:30 – 3:45 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS:Turning S.T.E.M. Into S.T.E.A.M. with Margaret Myers STUDIO For Creative Inquiry,College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University

3:45 – 4:15 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS:STAR TREK ECON OF SPACEThe Economics of Private Space with David King of General Orbital Corporation PLUSPaul Eckert, Ph.D. Boeing International Strategists and Marketing

4:20 – 4:30 PMEvening Highlights Across The Universe: Great NASA Images edited by VirtualWorld Studios

4:30 – 5:10 PMNASA Ames Projects Presented in collaboration with NASA Ames Video GroupCelestial Time Capsules: Discovering Secrets of the CometLCROSS, A First Step in the Return to the MoonAHPCRC, The New Home of Future Solutions for Agility, Survivability andInformaticsTC4 Mission OverviewThink Nano, Think Ames, Your Next Great PartnershipThis video explores the exciting Nanotechnology work that is happening atNASA Ames and the potential that exists for commercial partnerships to bedeveloped in collaboration with these efforts.The NASA Hyper-G CompetitionEmpowering Tomorrow’s Scientists Today

5:10 – 6:00 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: Oil and Water ProjectQ&A Discussion with Seth Warren/Biofules Education

6:00 – 6:20 PM Forgotten Animals / Forgotten Junkwith Michael Ricciardi

6:20 – 6:30PMI Can See Everythingwith Producers/Directors John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson

Yuri Gagarin Documentary

6:30 – 6:45 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: Inner Space: Genoa Remote Guidance SystemWith Edward Gallagher, Artist; Alison Victor and Eric Prodehl, FilmmakersDr. Richard Baldwin, Alyson Weber and Yuri GelmanAnd Paul Ryan Walker, Virtual London

6:45 – 7:00 PMLittle Know Hero of Space Exploration: Viking I Probe,Our First Eyes on Mars

7:00 – 7:10 PMGolden Star Productions: “Space Luminary Project”Featuring: George Whitesides, Bob Krone and Lawrence Downing

7:15 – 7:20 PMRocket Science: Q Club In The 23rd Century

7:25 – 7:35 PMOrphans of Apollo: The Battle of the Mir & the New Space Revolutionwith Michael Potter

7:35 – 8:00 PMTune InWith Esther Johnson, United KingdomA Blanche Pictures production funded by Arts Council England with the support of FilmLondon

8:00 – 8:25 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: FluxionsQ&A with Tania Fraga, Brazil

8:30 – 8:45 PM“I See The Earth”A cosmic Antiphony, created by the Deep Space Signaling Group at the STUDIO forCreative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon. Produced in collaboration with the Yuri's Night BayArea Production Team, Golden Star Productions and the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium.

8:45 – 9:00 PMLive From Above The Artic Circle: Stories From Remote Campsite

9:00 – 9:15 PMNear Earth Asteroidswith Bruce Damer

9:15 – 9:30 PMArt in Space VideosSpace Art Studio Seminar, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon UniversityWith Lowry Burgess and Jonathan Minard

9:30 – 10:00 PM‘Drift Painting’ in a Microgravity Environmentwith Frank Pietronigro

10:00 – 10:10 PM‘HITEN Zero Gravity Dance'With Ishiguro Setsuko – Ishiguro Dance Theatre, Japan

10:10 – 10:20 PMEl Milagroso (The Miracle)Antonio Jose Guzman, Filmmaker, Netherlands

10:20 – 10:40 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS:SKYSTUDIO: Zero Gravity Arts Consortium Parabolic Flight For ArtistsMoment in the Infinite Absolute. Time Passes While Reading and Flags in Space!Q&A with art in space pioneers Lowry Burgess and Frank Pietronigro

10:40 – 11:00 PMSPACE ART: Exploring New Territories! The International @rt Outsiders Jean-LucSoret, Curator; Direct from Paris’s International @rt Outsiders Festival, MaisonEuropéenne de la Photographie, Paris / France.

11:00 – 11:30 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: GRAVITATION OFF! Arts Catalyst, (2003), LondonVirtual Presentation Q&A Discussion with Nicola Triscott and Rob La Frenais

11:30 – 11:50 PMAyako OnoWith Ayako Ono, Artist in Residence at European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)

11:50 – 12:00 MidnightSo Negishi Works - Carillon Seed PLUS!Microgravity experiment using the drop tower at European Space AgencySo Negishi, Japan

12 Midnight – 12:10 AMGolden Star Productions: Space Luminary LibraryFeaturing: Loretta Hildalgo Whitesides

12:10 – 12:30 AMNot of This World / CodesWith Caroluna Michelson

12:30 – 1:00 AMSuper String Theory DNA of Reality: Who is Afraid of Music?Virtual lecture with S. James Gates, Jr., Ph.D., John S. Toll Professor of Physics,University of Maryland at College Park

1:00 – 1:30 AMTransmuteoCreated by Jean-Luc BozzoliIntroduction with Gordon Lent

1:30 – 2:00 AMYuri Gagarin: Too Much of Acoustic RadiationImages of Andrej Ujich Film, Yuri Gagarin Band, Italy

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

2:00 – 3:30 PMCHILL S.T.E.A.M. DJ Jeff StallingsSan Francisco's Jeff Stallings (a.k.a. DJ Snuggythugg) has been mixing edgydown-tempo music for ten years, including such venues as Mezzanine, 1015Folsom and the Slanted Door. Jeff was recently selected as a resident DJ forEnergy 92.7FM's Sunday night chillout program, Below Zero. He'll be mixing aset he calls “Final Frontier“ from 2pm to 4pm at the Documentary Stage. Find outmore about Jeff at snuggythugg.com.

2:00 – 4:00 PMScience Fiction / Technology FactCollection of Images From Maison d'Ailleurs/Agence Martienne with thesupport from the European Space Agency

Selected works from “Science Fiction / Technology Fact” (published by ESA, BR205]} a European Space Agency’s exhibition based on a study that was carriedout by Maison d’Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, which houses one ofthe world’s largest collections of science fiction literature in the world.

“Artwork has played an influential and central role in science fiction literature. Ithas partly defined the scope of the genre and has brought the startling andimaginative visions of outer space, exploration of other worlds, interplanetaryspaceflight and extraterrestrial beings into the minds and consciousness of thegeneral public.

In magazines and books, film and television, advertising and video, the artist’svision has transformed words into dazzling and compelling images that still lifethe spirits and brighten the soul.”

The presentation of stills from the collection juxtaposes images of what say thespace station actually looks like today compared with how artists many years agoimagined they might appear, long before they were on the drawing boards andeven before the first satellite had been launched. Exhibition componentfacilitated by David Raitt, Senior Technology Officer, European Space Agencyand Patrick Gyger of the Maison d’Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

andHUBBLE: 15 Years of DiscoveryPresented in collaboration with The Hubble European Space Agency InformationCenter (www.spacetelescope.org). The Hubble Space Telescope is a project ofinternational cooperation between European Space Agency & NASA.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most successful scientificprojects of all times. It is based on a collaboration between the American spaceagency NASA (85%) and the European Space Agency ESA (15%); acollaboration that extends across national boundaries and between differentscientific and engineering communities. Hubble is a space-based telescopeorbiting almost 570 km above our atmosphere.

Messier 101 (the Pinwheel Galaxy)Image Courtesy of the European Space Agency & NASA

3:00 – 3:15 PMSpace Exploration In ArtWith Don Davis

A collection of paintings of space subjects and ideas are presented as a video'slide show', including the works of members of the International Association ofAstronomical Artists. Painters of space art 'bring to life' wonders beyond theexperience of most people using the visual language of naturalism as aconceptual ladder to obtain a cosmic overview. The sharing of an impression ofwhat fascinates the artist about the subject on a visual level is often combinedwith a working knowledge of the science involved.

Two Suns by Don Davis

3:30 – 3:45 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: Turning S.T.E.M. Into S.T.E.A.M.With Margaret MyersSTUDIO For Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University

3:45 – 4:15 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: STAR TREK ECON OF SPACEThe Economics of Private Space with David King of General Orbital Corporation PLUSPaul Eckert, Ph.D. Boeing International Strategists and Marketing

4:20 – 4:30 PMEvening Highlights - Across The Universe: Great NASA Imagesedited by Virtual World Studios

4:30 – 5:10 PMNASA Ames ProjectsPresented in collaboration with NASA Ames Video Group

Celestial Time Capsules: Discovering Secrets of the CometExamination of the history of comets, why we study comets and Ames’contributions to comet research.

LCROSS, A First Step in the Return to the MoonA high-level introduction to the LCROSS mission. Explains why the searchfor water ice on the moon is important, what scientific instruments areonboard LCROSS and how the amateur astronomy community will contribute tothe mission.

AHPCRC, The New Home of Future Solutions for Agility, Survivability andInformaticsNASA is collaborating with the Army to support the Army High PerformanceComputing Research Center

TC4 Mission OverviewA NASA-wide airborne science campaign was deployed to Costa Rica in theSummer of 2007 to gather data about the cloud composition and pollutionlevels that are occurring in one of the most important weather systems inthe world

Think Nano, Think Ames, Your Next Great PartnershipThis video explores the exciting Nanotechnology work that is happening atNASA Ames and the potential that exists for commercial partnerships to bedeveloped in collaboration with these efforts.

The NASA Hyper-G CompetitionEmpowering Tomorrow’s Scientists TodayA team of high school students who won a NASA science competition areawarded the opportunity to work in a NASA Ames facility for one week and toconduct a science project with NASA scientists.

5:10 – 6:00 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: Oil and Water ProjectQ&A Discussion with Seth Warren/Biofules Education

A film about two kayakers who tackle the world’s longest-ever petroleum freeroad trip from Alaska to Argentina following the endless summer. They stop offand teach about the benefits of alternative energy to public and youth on theirway from river to river.

Scene from Seth Warren’s Oil and Water

6:00 – 6:20 PMForgotten Animals / Forgotten JunkWith Michael Ricciardi

A short 'imagined memoir' (video) of HAM, the first chimp in space, a short

slideshow tribute to other forgotten, animal space pioneers, and a power point

performance: 'Space Junk - What it is, what to do with it'.

On January 31, 1961, Ham (whose name was an acronym for Holloman Aero Med), becamethe first great ape (chimpanzee) in space, aboard a Mercury Redstone rocket on a sub-orbital flight very similar to Alan Shepard’s. Ham experienced a total of 6.6 minutes of

weightlessness during a 16.5-minute flight. A post-flight medical examination found Hamto be slightly fatigued and dehydrated, but in good shape otherwise.

6:20 – 6:30PMI Can See EverythingLive Presentation with Producers/Directors John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson

I CAN SEE EVERYTHING is an evocative commemoration of Yuri's flight as avantage point for seeing the Earth as Yuri saw it: a breathtakingly beautiful worldwithout the divisions or borders imposed on it by the transient and petty concernsof its inhabitants. A portion of their footage will be woven into “I See The Earth “on the Main Stage at 8:30 PM.

Scene from John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson I Can See Everything

6:30 – 6:45 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS:Inner Space: Genoa Remote Guidance SystemEdward Gallagher, Artist; Alison Victor and Eric Prodehl, FilmmakersPresentation with Ed Gallagher, Allison Victor, Eric Prodehl, Dr. Richard Baldwin,Alyson Weber and Yuri GelmanAnd Paul Ryan Walker, Virtual Guest from London

Ed Gallagher was a visual artist until he slowly lost his sight over 8 years. Inspired by space technology, Ed Gallagher developed the Genoa remoteguidance system for the blind using wireless internet technology to communicatewith a remote operator. Receiving clear commands from someone viewing Ed'sworld through his head mounted web cam, Ed, as a blind man, is able toparticipate in every day tasks, such as shopping, sailing and riding a bicycle.

6:45 – 7:00 PMLittle Know Hero of Space Exploration: Viking I Probe,Our First Eyes on Mars

7:00 – 7:10 PMGolden Star Productions: “Space Luminary Project”Featuring: George Whitesides, Bob Krone and LawrenceDowning

Informative documentaries with the Co-Founder of Yuri’s Night and ExecutiveDirector of the National Space Society, George Whitesides, PLUS interviews withprominent members of the space exploration, both governmental and privateentrepreneurs. The documentaries and the Interviews cover a wide range ofinformation from scientists who are investigating and making preparations forHumanity’s next step in taking the giant leap into colonizing space and planetswithin our solar system.

7:15 – 7:20 PMRocket Science: Q Club In The 23rd Century

Rocket ScienceQ Club in the 23rd CenturyThis is a new film from the talented young artists attending an after school artclub managed by Derby QUAD ltd. Q Club has 10 members aged between 8 and13 years old from various social backgrounds. The influence for this particularfilm came from the young people themselves. They wanted to make, and be partof, a film and its production. Experienced artists worked closely with the group togive support and guidance through the different processes needed to make thefilm.

Green screening techniques were used to film the young people as astronauts,which were later superimposed onto their beautiful artwork which they hadcreated of planets and galaxies they would like explore. The group designed theirown space suits and logos for the suits. The commentary is from the youngpeople; giving their thoughts of what it would be like to be in space and to be anastronaut, which adds a poignant touch to their fabulous finished creation. Thisproject was made possible through support from Derby Children’s Fund.

7:25 – 7:35 PMOrphans of ApolloThe Battle of the Mir & the New Space Revolution.with Michael Potter

Features the extraordinary true story of a small group of entrepreneurs wholeased the Russian Mir Space station and helped launched the New SpaceRevolution. This remarkable film chronicles the adventure of the boldest businessplan the earth has ever seen. MirCopr's space station was an outpost that wasintended to be the first phase of a trillion dollar business that would have includedmining of asteroids.

7:35 – 8:00 PMTune InWith Esther Johnson, United KingdomA Blanche Pictures production funded by Arts Council England with the supportof Film London

‘The space age hobby where the world is your friend.’

Tune In follows the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, better known asHAMS. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication, this portraitblends documentary and abstract audio to reflect the world of HAM radio and theuse of DIY equipment in an ever-changing modern world. An astute andaffectionate portrait of the unseen community of HAM radio enthusiasts.

www.blanchepictures.com

Scene from Esther Johnson’s Tune In

8:00 – 8:25 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS: FluxionsQ&A with Tania Fraga, Brazil

Fluxions is an artwork / program written in Java language (Java3D API). It consists of03 poetic realms organized as sensorial 3D virtual worlds. They explore metaphors forimaginary configurations of outside space. Bots (autonomous robots) living inside theartificial system create realms: visual mathematical realities only possible insidecomputer graphics environments. They permit the exploration of unfathomable realitiesdue to the establishment of mathematical relations to achieve unpredicted poetic andaesthetic sensations. Fluxions utilizes Pulfrich effect to attain the illusion of deepness.

Scene from Tania Fraga’s Fluxions

8:30 – 8:45 PM“I See The Earth”A cosmic Antiphony, created by the Deep Space Signaling Group at the STUDIOfor Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon. Produced in collaboration with the Yuri'sNight Bay Area Production Team, Golden Star Productions and the Zero GravityArts Consortium.

8:45 – 9:00 PMLive From Above The Artic Circle: Stories From RemoteCampsite

9:00 – 9:15 PMNear Earth Asteroids with Bruce Damer

9:15 – 9:30PMArt in Space VideosSpace Art Studio Seminar, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon UniversityWith Lowry Burgess and Jonathan MinardIncluding films, plans and projects created by students participating in the SpaceArt Studio Seminar held at the College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon Universityduring the Spring 2006 semester working under the guidance of Professor LowryBurgess. Carnegie Mellon University. Content produced by students of theCarnegie Mellon School of Art Space Art course: Nikolai Antoni, Kota Asukura,Claire Hoch, James Galloway, Laura Miller, Jonathan Minard, Nick Pozek,Charlie Wright, Conor Sites-Bowen, Jimmy Sakai.

9:30 – 10:00 PM ‘Drift Painting’ in a Microgravity Environmentwith Frank Pietronigro, Interdisciplinary ArtistVideo documentation of Research Project Number 33: Investigating the CreativeProcess in a Microgravity Environment featuring Frank Pietronigro engaged inthe process of creating ‘Drift Painting’ aboard NASA’S KC135 turbojet as a partof the NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Program, a program of the TexasSpace Grant Consortium produced in collaboration with the California SpaceGrant Program and the San Francisco Art Institute. www.pietronigro.com

Frank Pietronigro ‘Drift Painting’ in a Microgravity Environment, April 4,1998(Original Video Footage: Courtesy of NASA)

10:00 – 10:10 PM‘HITEN Zero Gravity Dance'Ishiguro Setsuko – Ishiguro Dance Theatre

Scene from ‘HITEN Zero Gravity Dance' Ishiguro Setsuko – Ishiguro Dance Theatre

Proposed for flight on the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency 'KIBO'module, the dancers, shown during parabolic flight, employ references toDunhuang Cave Art while analyzing the physical characteristics and dancepostures of these figures of Hiten in microgravity space.

Hiten are flying deities in the Buddhist tradition have their origins in India fromwhere they were brought to Japan through China along the Silk Road.

The most beautiful ancient images of them are found in the grottoes of Dunhuangand Yungang (China) and the Ishiguro Dance Theatre presents videodocumentation of the Hiten while flying in parabolic flight.

10:10 – 10:20 PMEl Milagroso (The Miracle)Antonio Jose Guzman, Filmmaker, Netherlands

The film represents Dutch/Panamanian artist Antonio Jose Guzman dream aboutbuilding a giant glass sphere in which he can cross the Atlantic ocean. Hisproject is an ode to late Los Angeles based Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader. Aderdisappeared in an attempt to travel in a small boat from the US east coast toIreland. Ader's project the Miraculous became an urban legend for many artist onboth sides of the Atlantic. In his film Guzman tries the convince his friends andfamily of the possibility of such an attempt's success. Other main interpretationsfor Guzman are based on his fascination with gravity and diasphora.

10:20 – 10:40 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS:SKYSTUDIO: Zero Gravity Arts Consortium Parabolic Flight ForArtistsMoment in the Infinite Absolute. Time Passes While Reading and Flags in Space!Q&A with art in space pioneers Lowry Burgess and Frank Pietronigro

Projects created during Zero Gravity Arts Consortium's Parabolic Research Flightfor Artists flown as a part of the 25th International Space DevelopmentConference Co-Sponsored by the National Space Society and the PlanetarySociety. Parabolic Flight flown by Zero Gravity Corporation, May 2006, LosAngeles

SKY STUDIO Video Documentation includes some of the following projects:

MOMENTS IN THE INFINITE ABSOLUTEWith Lowry Burgess visiting Yuri’s Night Bay Area VirtuallyBurgess’s monumental work, ‘The Seed of the Infinite Absolute’ floated inmicrogravity above Los Angeles, generating brilliant flashes of light as it transitsfrom OG to 2Gs.

It is formed by an elaborate series of processes and distillations created, indifferent global climates, over the past 25 years. Its shell, a geometricallycomplex, hand size ‘seed’ is a fusion of the 12 ‘royal’ metals. It contains a unifiedemulsion of the essences of 44 trees, 52 flowers, 36 waters, 32 bloods and 120telepathic hopes representing, in essence, the entire Earth. All these elementsare unified into one essential, hand-held form to be ‘released’ by the artist at theedge of the absolute state of micro-gravity.

The concept for this artwork in micro-gravity is the simple gesture of release froma human hand of the hand-sized form of "the Seed of the Infinite Absolute" intorepeated moments of weightlessness (moments of 'equant' balance) and double-density/double-gravity weighted ness. (It is actually quite a dense and heavysmall pear sized object). At the moment of its weightlessness, it flashes withbright white stroboscopic light (the flashing brilliance of its approach to theAbsolute).

The Seed of the Infinite Absolute by Lowry Burgess, 2005

TIME PASSES WHILE READINGContinued with his interest in the ideas and methods of the Situationists, duringhis second parabolic flight in microgravity on May 4, 2006, Frank Pietronigroincorporated the technique of Flanerie as the artist imprinted into microgravityspace floating signs composed of cut-up pictographs appropriated from a page ina book written in 1950 by Lettrist Gabriel Pomerand titled ‘Saint ghetto des prets’.The pictographs represent a journey through the bohemian Left Bankneighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Pres in Paris.

By taking this action, Pietronigro actualized earlier space art project conceptswhere the artists desired to float signs, text, pictures in a communal space whereothers could also add signs, text, pictures of their own while collaboratingtogether on the creation of new form of microgravity poetics. The artist questionswhat benefits enjoying such leisure time activities in space will afford thosetraveling on long-term space journeys in the future and he contemplates whatnew forms of communication and language creation might evolve using suchtechniques in a space where the text is not fixed and static.

Page from book ‘Saint ghetto des prets’ [1] created in 1950 by Lettrist Gabriel Pomerandand appropriated by Pietronigro for ‘drifting’ during flight.

The following is documentation from SKYSTUDIO: ZGAC Parabolic ResearchFlight for Artists, May 4, 2006, flown by Zero Gravity Corporation.Original video documentation by Frank Pietronigro

Scenes from Taking Time To Read by Frank Pietronigro, 2006

FLAGS IN SPACE! by Frank Pietronigro, 2006

10:40 – 11:00 PMSPACE ART: Exploring New Territories! The International @rt OutsidersJean-Luc Soret, CuratorDirect from Paris’s International @rt Outsiders Festival held at the MaisonEuropéenne de la Photographie, Paris / France.www.art-outsiders.com - soret@art-outsiders.com

In 2003, the International @rt Outsiders Festival, presented an historical eventbased on the "Space Art" theme, which was held at the Maison Européenne dela Photographie. This was the very first time a festival, exclusively dedicated tospace art, have been organized in France.

"Space Art" is all those contemporary artistic practices that are inspired by spaceresearch or space activity. It is, therefore, not an aesthetic current that imposesshared formal rules of presentation or representation, but rather an artisticcurrent defined by a subject: space, drawing on a community of passionate, livelyinterests by an infinite scope of investigation that is as yet little explored.

The panorama of the works which are shown here enables us toforcefully demonstrate the extraordinary vitality of contemporarycreation via the novelty and diversity of the fields of experimentationthat it covers: artistic experiments in weightlessness, collective andparticipatory works intended for space voyages, sub-orbital andenvironmental projects, multimedia installations based on radio-astronomy and radio-telescopy, cosmic representations, weightlesssculpture and architecture, digital creations concerning fantasy,esthetics or the history of the conquest of space.

These unique artists, painters, plastic artists, architects, sculptors, film makers,musicians and poets appropriate each in their own way the collective imaginationlinked to the exploration of space, providing us with fascinating works, that reveala particular awareness of the incomparable social-cultural changes that areassociated with technological progress.

This video program tries to illustrate to the prodigious force of evocationthat this Terra Incognita has always held for the human community.

Video shorts include:

“KEO”, Jean-Marc Philippe, (2001) Selected as the " Project for the 21st century" by Unesco, Keo is a satelliteprepared for launching by 2008 for a long journey around the planet Earth inorder to land in about 50 000 years later and deliver to our remote descendantsany message given nowadays by each of us. Once Keo on orbit, all ourmessages - which will remain strictly anonymous within the archives kept onEarth - are going to be analyzed by linguists and sociologists.

The content will be summarized by cartographers in order to set up a publicdebate, a scientific device which will enable us to answer a couple of mainquestions such as "who are we?" and what kind of world and society could webuild starting today in terms of human betterment?

“KEO”, Jean-Marc Philippe, (2001)

“COLLISION II”, Richard Clar, (2003) with Music by Marc Battierwww.arttechnologies.com

COLLISION II, an orbital debris constellation sculpture in low-Earth orbit, isrepresented in a multimedia video installation featuring music by the Frenchcomposer, Marc Battier. Attention is focused on the serious problem of orbitaldebris, particularly in low-Earth orbit.

Selected for COLLISION II, 192 orbital debris objects (color-coded by country oforigin) are shown in the installation video along with the remainder of the 10,000objects (small white dots) currently in the U.S. Space Command's catalog oftracked orbital debris objects.

Surrounding our planet Earth, the trajectories of all of this debris, which at firstmight appear to be chaotic, are in fact known and listed in the U.S. SpaceCommand's catalog of orbital debris objects in space. Using data from thiscatalog, and a super-computer, the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington,D.C., created the simulations seen in the COLLISION II presentation.

“COLLISION II”, Richard Clar, (2003)

“OPEN SKY”, Ewen Chardronnet and "RT32", Rasa Smite, Martins Ratkins,Raitis Smits, (2003)

"Open Sky" looks at how artists explore conversions from military to civilian inspace and sky arts. It presents a film that shows how to open the sky to stimulatepossible conversions and investigate orbital information systems in the context ofpost-Apollo to post-Cold War/Desert Storm esthetics and politics. “Open sky”shows also the background of the conversion for civil use of the "RT 32"telescope of Irbene in Latvia.http://acoustic.space.re-lab.nethttp://www.rixc.lvhttp://www.radioqualia.net

“SIGNATURE TERRE” + “PROGRAMME BIOSPACE” + “ZERO G. ART”,Pierre Comte, (2003)Visible from space, "Signature Terre" is a gigantic ground installation thatreaches its full significance with the satellite views presented.

"Biospace Program" a project that endeavors to prove that the idealarchitecture for weightlessness is a sphere. An original work that gives us aglimpse of tomorrow's space shuttle cockpit.

"Zero G. Art" thanks to backing by the CNES, ESA and NASA, Pierre Comtehas created very particular plastic works, in which the interest lies ó amongstother things ó in the way in which they move about in space.

“COSMIC DANCER”, Arthur Woods, (1993)On Friday, March 23, 2001: the MIR space station plunged into the south Pacificin flames. Along with the station, the "Cosmic Dancer," the first sculpture onboard the MIR since 1993, that was specifically created for the station and forweightlessness, disappeared into the ocean. With no attachment points, thissculpture offers viewers a multitude of perceptual points or rather position points,creating a three dimensional kinetic relationship with the cosmonauts.

A captivating video documentary that enables the public to observe the birth andrealization of this historical, yet ephemeral work.www.cosmicdancer.com

“COSMIC DANCER”, Arthur Woods, (1993)

11:00 – 11:30 PMFESTIVAL OF IDEAS:GRAVITATION OFF! Arts Catalyst, (2003), LondonVirtual Presentation Q&A Discussion with Nicola Triscott and Rob La Frenais

The Arts Catalyst founded in 1993 by Nicola Triscott, is a European agencybased in London that specializes in the relationship between art and sciencewhose goal is to encourage dialog, exchange and collaboration between artistsand scientists. This organization whose curator is Rob La Frenais thus opens upnew territories and spaces for creation with the setting up of multidisciplinaryresearch laboratories including activities such as zero gravity flights."Gravitation off!" leads us to discover the extraordinary video documents of theseartistic experiments performed in weightlessness. - www.artscatalyst.org

Scene From GRAVITATION OFF!

11:30 – 11:50 MidnightAyako's Art Projects with European Space AgencyWith Ayako Ono

This video sent direct from Japan, documents Ayako Ono's work at ESA'sEuropean Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC). Environmentalimprovements such as increased natural stimulation are helpful for spacecrew to reduce stress levels and enhance their working capability. Art couldalso be a part of this environment. Ayako Ono will demonstrate the simulationof her ideas and will demonstrate some art 'experiments' in microgravityenvironments using ESA's parabolic flight and drop tower.

11:50 – 12:00 MidnightSo Negishi Works - Carillon Seed PLUS!Microgravity experiment using the drop tower at European Space AgencySo Neggishi, Japan

He made the work as a trial sculptural piece that makes sounds. Notonly producing sounds, but also enjoying its movement when the ballsas contents hit each other, like toys. He is going to keep on working for betterdesign and visual effects shown by gimmick. This time, he would like to introducehis works through videos. The video "Carillon Seed" was a microgravityexperiment using drop tower at European Space Agency.

Carillon Seed by So Negishi

12 Midnight – 12:10 AMGolden Star Productions: Space Luminary LibraryWith Celestine Star featuring: Loretta Hildalgo Whitesides and . . .

Informative Documentaries and Interviews with prominent members of the SpaceCommunity, both Governmental and Private Entrepreneurs. The Documentariesand the Interviews below cover a wide range of information from scientists whoare investigating and making preparations for Humanity’s next step in taking thegiant leap into colonizing Space and Planets within our solar system.

12:10 – 12:30 AM"Not of this world": Caroluna video/music "Codes": Caroluna - video, Caroluna/The Orb – musicWith Caroluna Michelson

"Not of this world" is a visionary music video with sensual images of jellyfish setto an operatic song sung in french and english by Caroluna, a classically trainedsinger, digital video and music artist. The song is about a dreamer who identifiesmore with the dream state than the waking state.

"Codes" is a song Caroluna collaborated on with the UK band, The Orb, whichincorporates the same melody and visual content from "Not of this world", butintroduces a human interaction with the jellyfish...

12:30 – 1:00 AMSuper String Theory DNA of Reality: Who is Afraid of Music?Virtual lecture with S. James Gates, Jr., Ph.D., John S. Toll Professor of Physics,University of Maryland at College Park; presented in collaboration with TheTeaching Company.

Of all the languages humanity uses, only mathematics has shown the capabilityto describe nature’s most fundamental laws and structures. Why is this soimportant in a series of lectures about string theory? The evidence for strings –for the belief that, at a fundamental level, our world is “defined” by pasta-likestructures – can be found presently only in mathematical equations.

1:00 – 1:30 AMTransmuteoCreated by Jean-Luc BozzoliIntroduction with Gordon Lent

A spectacular journey into an enchanting world, created by Jean-Luc Bozzili. Visually rich and filled with cosmic detail, this presentation takes you into a visionof what our reality must be like in the higher dimensions.

1:30 – 2:00 AMYuri Gagarin: Too Much of Acoustic RadiationYuri Gagarin Band, Italy