A group of artists has actually released a vibrant, jellyfish-looking craft into Earths stratosphere as part of a distinct test flight. This previous summer season, the Beyond Earth artist cumulative completed an art work theyve designated “Living Light.” The art piece “combines biology, artificial intelligence, and aerospace technology,” and “explores the connections in between our blue planet and the boundlessness of deep space,” they composed in a statement. And, on June 18, they flew the art work almost 19 miles up (just over 30.5 kilometers) above Earths surface area to the farthest reaches of Earths stratosphere aboard the inaugural test flight of a craft called “Neptune One.” “By sending art work to space, that really allows us to really reconsider the bounds of imaginative expression,” space artist Richelle Gribble, one of the three artists who made this artwork who is also the co-founder of Beyond Earth and director of the gallery Supercollider, told Space.com. “And when its beyond Earth, it actually shows the abilities of imagination to be something that always pushes the bounds and presses us to think in a different way and redefine what art is and how its made.Related: Our objective to Mars at the HI-SEAS habitatImage 1 of 6″Living Light” artwork in the stratosphere as part of the Neptune One inaugural launch. (Image credit: Beyond Earth/Space Perspective)Image 2 of 6″Living Light” artwork in the stratosphere. (Image credit: Beyond Earth/Space Perspective)Image 3 of 6Neptune One prepares to introduce. (Image credit: Beyond Earth/Space Perspective)Image 4 of 6Neptune Ones inaugural launch. (Image credit: Beyond Earth/Space Perspective)Image 5 of 6Neptune One launched the art work “Living Light” to the stratosphere. (Image credit: Beyond Earth/Space Perspective)Image 6 of 6Beyond Earths “Living Light” artwork. (Image credit: Beyond Earth/Space Perspective)Art “Beyond Earth”This inaugural test flight for Neptune One “marked a major step towards flying consumers to area,” said in a declaration. “Neptune Ones capsule was transformed by Living Light, an art setup by Beyond Earth. The worlds largest art installation to take a trip to space, Living Light echoed the shape of the capsule which will eventually carry explorers to area, and embraced the appearance of a jellyfish.”The installation represented a shared objective to magnify the essential biodiversity and interdependency of all living organisms– specifically hidden ocean life– hardly ever consisted of in the story of life on planet Earth,” Space Perspective added.Gribble is one of three members of Beyond Earth. The collective likewise includes artists Yoko Shimizu, an artist and scientist concentrating on biology and chemistry at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria; and Elena Soterakis, a manager, educator and artist who established the BioBAT Art Space gallery in New York. To create this collective launch, the trio linked with Space Perspective, a Florida-based company that designed the “Spaceship Neptune,” a pressurized balloon-lofted pill that might bring up to 8 travelers and one pilot to 100,000 feet (30.5 km). Recently, the company, which was founded by originally “biospherians,” Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum. Poynter and MacCallum each lived for about two years in the dome environment referred to as Biosphere 2. “They invited us to create the whole capsule structure that would be the payload for their inaugural spaceflight,” Gribble told Space.com. The Neptune vessel is “about the size of a football field,” Gribble said, including that it took 6 hours to fly the art work up to its supreme elevation. The ship is, as its name would dictate, influenced by the Roman god of the sea and the artistic trio took that information as inspiration. “We really wished to develop a design that was an iteration of that theme,” Gribble stated. “So we began to truly deep dive into taking a look at the ocean biome, and looking at water and homes of types that live off of the Florida Space Coast.” More: Sending art to space: An interview with artist Micah JohnsonAquatic motivation for space-age artFor those just seeing Living Light for the very first time, its ocean inspiration is clear, as the art work originates a jellyfish-esque shape and transparency. Jellyfish arent the only types that made their way into this artwork.”We chose to develop a structure that is a composite of over 1,000 different water types, to celebrate the biodiversity of marine communities,” Gribble said. However to develop a huge vibrant jellyfish-shaped piece of artwork for area, it has to have the ability to withstand the severe conditions of getting to space, remaining in space and landing back in the world.”When youre developing for area, it really alters the ways you think of products,” Gribble stated. You “have to make it incredibly lightweight, to deal with the payload criteria. Individuals dont think about this however yes, area is extremely cold. And so we cant have products thatll be too brittle or break or take in excessive of the UV light. Even the color choices that we picked had to show light to secure the art sculpture.”But these werent even the only severe constraints that the art group needed to deal with in order to create art that could stand up to area. Gribble included that “developing for effect when it lands into the ocean was a huge consideration. How to create this structure so its durable enough to not leave any kind of debris behind.”The group desired to make the structure able to endure an ocean landing to display it at future exhibits and use it for future projects. Even more importantly, Gribble stated, they wanted to ensure that they were doing all they could to avoid leaving any debris or waste behind in the ocean. Gribble evaluated a small prototype of the art installation at the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) research study station in Hawaii during an analog, or simulated, Mars objective in 2020. (Full disclosure, I took part in the exact same analog Mars mission as Gribble.)Richelle Gribble checks a model of “Living Light” at HI-SEAS. (Image credit: Richelle Gribble)”During the HI-SEAS analog, I brought a smaller sized prototype, a mini of the sculpture,” Gribble stated, adding that during the analog she “documented as it flew throughout the habitat and likewise photographed it on the Martian landscape. And this was actually meant to conceptualize what it means to design artworks and art things that are constructed for space environments.”But this “jellyfish” wasnt simply evaluated and developed and flown to the stratosphere all on its own. It also consisted of a special, tiny capsule with DNA encoded. “The DNA pill flown to space on Neptune One inside Living Light, was consisted of 3 art pieces by each of the artists who comprise Beyond Earth,” Space Perspective said in the same statement. “In a message “To Space, from Earth,” each work was transformed to DNA and saved inside a metal vial consisting of an artistic message to space.”Email Chelsea Gohd at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @chelsea_gohd. 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“By sending out artworks to area, that truly allows us to actually reassess the bounds of innovative expression,” area artist Richelle Gribble, one of the three artists who made this art work who is also the co-founder of Beyond Earth and director of the gallery Supercollider, told Space.com. The worlds biggest art installation to travel to area, Living Light echoed the shape of the capsule which will eventually transport explorers to area, and adopted the look of a jellyfish.”The installation represented a shared mission to amplify the necessary biodiversity and interdependency of all living organisms– particularly concealed ocean life– rarely consisted of in the story of life on planet Earth,” Space Perspective added.Gribble is one of 3 members of Beyond Earth.”The DNA capsule flown to area on Neptune One inside Living Light, was made up of 3 art pieces by each of the artists who make up Beyond Earth,” Space Perspective said in the very same declaration. “In a message “To Space, from Earth,” each work was transformed to DNA and kept inside a metal vial consisting of a creative message to area.
