Category Archives: Space Arts

Space Arts, Space Music

Space music from starlight and more

‘s latest space music posting  looks at three musicians: Space Music: Buddhist Stars, Sun Sounds and Alphabet’s Heaven – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks.

He begins with Lucianne Walkowicz, who works as a Princeton astrophysicist in her day job on the Kepler mission. She creates

sonifications of data from NASA’s Kepler mission. The sounds you hear are drawn from changes measured in the brightness of stars, which have certain frequencies that depend on how rapidly the star is spinning.

Find more about her music at

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The second musician is Robert Alexander and Lamb points to the recent VICE video about him, which I reported on here.

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The third entry in Lamb’s piece is

the video for Alphabet’s Heaven’ s “Birthday” from Siamese Burn EP on King Deluxe, animated by Renata Gąsiorowska. Absolutely lovely.

Multiple media, Space Arts

Antipodes – views from opposite ends of the earth

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The Antipodes Webcams project will juxtapose real-time images from cameras on exact opposite points of the glove:

Film and Video Umbrella presents:

Antipodes
By Layla Curtis

A new online art project launching at www.antipodes.uk.com on 20 March 2013 with photographic exhibition at Spacex, Exeter from 18 May – 13 July 2013.

Imagine digging a hole right through centre of the earth to the other side of the planet – where would you end up? If you were in Hamilton, Bermuda you would come out in Perth, Australia and if you were in Porto Alegre, Brazil you would arrive near Nagasaki, Japan. A hole through the earth from London would end up in the South Pacific Ocean, about 800km off the coast of New Zealand.

Layla Curtis’ Antipodes is an online and photographic project which pairs webcam images from places on opposite sides of the globe. Only 4% of the earth’s surface has land antipodal to land but it offers rich terrain for fascinating parallels. As far away from each other as it is possible to be, these distant ‘twins’ often possess surprising affinities. Having researched multiple webcam sources from myriad international locations, Curtis revels in drawing out these points of connection: finding topographical echoes in the landscape, as well as architectural and cultural similarities. A number of photographic diptychs, distilled from the stream of webcam footage, press the point home. Highlighting both the distance and the difference between us, they also remind us how technology is bringing us closer together.

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Image by Layla Curtis showing antipodes views of South Georgia and Russia

Layla Curtis Antipodes launches online on 20 March at www.antipodes.uk.com

The launch date coincides with the northward equinox and will be an ongoing online project, lasting for one year.

The exhibition of photographic prints runs at Spacex, 45 Preston Street, Exeter, Ex1 1DF from 18 May until 13 July 2013.

About Layla Curtis
Layla Curtis received her BA Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art (1998) and her MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art (2000). Her work, featuring in collections including the Tate Collection, and the Government Art Collection, is exhibited widely. Solo exhibitions include those at Milton Keynes Gallery (2000), New Art Gallery Walsall (2006) and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (2008). In 2005 Curtis was awarded an Arts Council England International Fellowship and undertook a three-month journey to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; Tate Liverpool; Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez-Oca, São Paulo, Brazil and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada. Recently her work was included in the Revolver series of exhibitions at Matt’s Gallery, London (2012).

Antipodes is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in association with Spacex.  Technical support by Cuttlefish.  Supported by Arts Council England.

Film and Video Umbrella commissions, curates, produces and presents film, video and other moving-image works by artists that are staged in collaboration with galleries and other cultural partners. Since the late 1980s, Film and Video Umbrella has been at the forefront of this vibrant and expanding area of practice, promoting innovation through its support of some of the most exciting figures on the contemporary scene. During this time, the organisation has commissioned and produced over 100 different artists’ projects, ranging from ambitious multi-screen installations to shorter film and video pieces, as well as online commissions. www.fvu.co.uk

Cuttlefish have been innovating with technology since 2001. Based in the UK’s East Midlands, the Cuttlefish team create web and mobile apps for a wide variety of organisations and have a particular passion for arts, cultural and community projects.

Education, Space Arts, Space Science

Comparing two famous near earth asteroids

The B612 Foundation points to an illustration by space artist Michael Carroll that gets across the scale of the meteoroid that blew up over Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15th and the asteroid 2012 DA14 that passed near earth later that same day: So how big are these NEOs anyway? – B612 Foundation

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Asteroid 2012 DA14 (on left) vs the Chelyabinsk meteoroid vs a US football stadium.
Illustration by Michael Carroll.

Education, Space Arts

2013 Space Foundation student art contest winners selected

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The Space Foundation announces the winners of this year’s student art contest:

2013 Space Foundation International Student Art Contest Winners
are a Truly Global Group

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 11, 2013) – The 36 winners of the 2013 Space Foundation International Student Art Contest are the most globally diverse group in the contest’s history. Young artists from 12 countries were selected for the top slots from among more than 4,700 entries representing 45 countries, including 38 U.S. states and territories – the largest response since the contest began three years ago.

Winning artwork submitted by Kathleen Xue, of Elite Art Academy, Palo Alto, Calif.
She won the Grand Prize, 9th-12th grade category, and the Space Foundation
Achievement Award.

The winners will receive ribbons and prizes co-sponsored by Fisher Space Pen, and their artwork will be displayed at the Space Foundation’s 29th National Space Symposium next month at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. Winners will be invited to tour the Space Symposium’s Lockheed Martin Exhibit Center and meet former NASA astronaut Dr. Leroy Chiao, Space Foundation special advisor – human spaceflight.

The Space Foundation invited students from around the world in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to submit original artwork depicting the theme, If I Were Going…, challenging them to imagine how they would personally experience space travel, exploration or settlement and then interpret that idea into an original work of visual art.

A panel of international judges selected first, second and third place winning entries in four grade categories – PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12 – and three style categories – drawing, painting/mixed media and digital. From that group, the 36 winners were chosen and the panel selected a single grand prize winner in each age category, for a total of four grand prize winners. One Space Foundation Achievement Award was also awarded, selected from among the winners by the Space Foundation’s internal graphic arts team.

Grand prize winning entry from Poem Shiuey, Pre-K-2nd grade category,
Meyerholz Elementary School, San Jose, Calif.

Grand prize winning entry from Vincent Zheng, 3rd-5th grade category,
SKA Academy of Art and Design, Duluth, Ga.


Grand prize winning entry from Junsu Lee, 6th-8th grade
category, D-DIM Academy, Buena Park, Calif.

The complete list of winners and finalists:

GRAND PRIZE/SPACE FOUNDATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS
Poem Shiuey, Grand Prize, Pre-K-2nd grade
Meyerholz Elementary School, San Jose, Calif., USA
Vincent Zheng, Grand Prize, 3rd-5th grade
SKA Academy of Art and Design, Duluth, Ga., USA
Junsu Lee, Grand Prize, 6th-8th grade
D-DIM Academy, Buena Park, Calif., USA
Kathleen Xue, Grand Prize, 9th-12th grade, and the Space Foundation Achievement Award
Elite Art Academy, Palo Alto, Calif., USA

PRE-K-2ND GRADE WINNERS, DRAWING
Natalie Huang, 1st Place
DiFinci School, Bayside, N.Y., USA
Katie Christopher, 2nd Place
Westlake Christian School, Palm Harbor, Fla., USA
Jessica Deng, 3rd Place
SKA Academy of Art and Design, Duluth, Ga., USA

PRE-K-2ND GRADE WINNERS, PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA
Poem Shiuey, 1st Place
Meyerholz Elementary, San Jose, Calif., USA
Daniel Tsivkovski, 2nd Place
EDU After School, San Diego, Calif., USA
Nehir Çakmakci, 3rd Place
Kocaeli Bahcesehir Koleji School, Kocaeli, Turkey

PRE-K-2ND GRADE WINNERS, DIGITAL
Louisenxius Pangestu, 1st Place
SD Immanuel School, Batu, Indonesia
Aisyah Nasywa Ula, 2nd Place
KhaChiFA (Khatuistiwa Children Fun Art), Pontianak, Indonesia
Emily Xu, 3rd Place
Beware Wet Paint Progressive Art School, Markham, Ontario, Canada

3RD-5TH GRADE WINNERS, DRAWING
Vincent Zheng, 1st Place
SKA Academy of Art and Design, Duluth, Ga., USA
Bhavya Mithra, 2nd Place
Artesia Art School, Malappuram, Kerala, India
Yamazaki Dan, 3rd Place
Miyoshigaoka Elementary, Miyoshi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

3RD-5TH GRADE WINNERS, PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA
Skylar Duncan, 1st Place
The Colorado Springs School, Colorado Springs, Colo., USA
Lewis Gregory, 2nd Place
Tibberton CofE Primary School, Newport, Shropshire, U.K.
Mankeert Narang, 3rd Place
Yadavindra Public School, Mohali, Punjab, India

3RD-5TH GRADE WINNERS, DIGITAL
Deanna Diocson, G., 1st place
Education and Training Center School III, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Bryan Montenegro, 2nd Place
The Mirman School, Los Angeles, Calif., USA
Wimansi Disanayaka, 3rd Place
Sivali Central College, Hidellana, Ratnapura, Sri Lanka

6TH-8TH GRADE WINNERS, DRAWING
Katie Gao, 1st place
Howard County Chinese School, Ellicott City, Md., USA
Ameera Watley, 2nd Place
William J. Clark Middle School, Orangeburg, S.C., USA
Shing Yong Hu, 3rd Place
Chong Hok Tong Education Center, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

6TH-8TH GRADE WINNERS, PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA
Junsu Lee, 1st Place
D-DIM Academy, Buena Park, Calif., USA
Edwin SJ Nah, 2nd Place
St. James Episcopal School, Los Angeles, Calif., USA
Julie Moon, 3rd Place
D-DIM Academy, Buena Park, Calif., USA

6TH-8TH GRADE WINNERS, DIGITAL
Alyssa Gazic, 1st Place
Barkalow Middle School, Freehold, N.J., USA
Emily Eng, 2nd Place
Barkalow Middle School, Freehold, N.J., USA
Victoria Guida, 3rd Place
Barkalow Middle School, Freehold, N.J., USA

9TH-12TH GRADE WINNERS, DRAWING
Kathleen Xue, 1st Place
Elite Art Studio, Palo Alto, Calif., USA
Anastasia Melnikova, 2nd Place
Musical Aesthetic Lyceum Them A G Schnittke, Saratov Region, Russia
Nuruleeman Mansor, 3rd place
Sek. Men. Keb. Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

9TH-12TH GRADE WINNERS, PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA
Jasmine Narang, 1st place
Yadavindra Public School, Mohali, Punjab, India
Payel Saha, 2nd Place
Chaturanga Art Centre, West Bengal, India
Koty Thomas, 3rd Place
Penn Trafford High School, Harrison City, Pa., USA

9TH-12TH GRADE WINNERS, DIGITAL
Raquel Arens, 1st Place
Air Academy High School, Colorado Springs, Colo., USA
Sydney-Paige Kay, 2nd Place
Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, N.Y., USA
Ananya Jain, 3rd place
Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, N.Y., USA

Where to See the Artwork
Winning artwork submitted for this year’s contest can be seen on the Space Foundation website photo gallery at www.spacefoundation.org/media/photo-galleries, and at www.artsonia.com/museum in the If I Were Going… Space Foundation art gallery.

About the Judging Panel
The panel of judges comprised:

  • Daniela De Paulis, artist and lecturer, artist in residence at Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Lourn Eidal, assistant art director, Crystal Peak Design, Colorado Springs
  • Sam Gappmayer, president/CEO, Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs
  • Joe Vinton, freelance digital artist and illustrator, Renderosity Online Artist of the Year, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
  • Hans Wolfe, middle and upper school visual arts, visiting artist coordinator, art department chair, The Colorado Springs School

Learn more about the annual Space Foundation International Student Art Contest by visiting www.spacefoundation.org/education.