{"id":7616,"date":"2014-05-02T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T22:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2014-05-02T18:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T22:12:01","slug":"video-gam-astroartopticks-event-touched-the-moon-with-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7616","title":{"rendered":"Video: GAM AstroArt\/OPTICKS event touched the Moon with art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticks.info\/blog\/\" target=\"_d\">OPTICKS<\/a>\u00a0project bounced off the Moon radio transmissions of images of art\u00a0from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/humansinspaceart\/\" target=\"_d\">Humans in Space<\/a>\u00a0student art contest. \u00a0While this was happening, the participants in the\u00a0Google+ hangout\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/ckm4364t5f7fcg0m42rgb7br2lc\" target=\"_d\">GAM AstroArt: Touching the Moon with Art &amp; Footsteps<\/a>\u00a0discussed the project and other aspects of the intersection of science, space and art. Here is a video of the event:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZvZkNqclwQA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The guests included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Chaikin is the author of Man on the Moon and From Earth to the Moon.<\/li>\n<li>Wendell Mendell is a retired NASA lunar and planetary exploration scientist.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Nobel is a current NASA lunar scientist and artist.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Shiner is a winner of both the 2010 and 2012 Humans in Space Youth Art Competitions.<\/li>\n<li>Jan van Muijlwijk, OPTICKS collaborator, radio operator, CAMRAS\/Dwingeloo radio telescope.<\/li>\n<li>Daniela De Paulis is the visual artist and researcher who developed the OPTICKS live performance technology in collaboration with the Dwingeloo radio telescope.<\/li>\n<li>Jancy McPhee is the director of the Humans in Space Art Program, which includes the Youth Art Competition Project in its portfolio.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Simmons, host, and director of Astronomers without Borders<\/li>\n<li>Pamela Gay, producer, and Principle Investigator of CosmoQuest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday\u00a0the OPTICKS\u00a0project bounced off the Moon radio transmissions of images of art\u00a0from the\u00a0Humans in Space\u00a0student art contest. \u00a0While this was happening, the participants in the\u00a0Google+ hangout\u00a0GAM AstroArt: Touching the Moon with Art &amp; Footsteps\u00a0discussed the project and other aspects of the intersection of science, space and art. Here is a video of the event: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: GAM AstroArt\/OPTICKS event touched the Moon with art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-space-arts","category-space-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1YQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7145,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7145","url_meta":{"origin":7616,"position":0},"title":"OPTICKS: Bouncing space art off the Moon","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Leonard David reports on the OPTICKS\u00a0project, which plans to\u00a0beam artworks from the\u00a0Humans in Space Art Contest\u00a0to the Moon and back:\u00a0To the Moon with an Artistic Bounce! - Coalition for Space Exploration. 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