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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:30:54 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-pangea.ca>
Subject: Art in Space


from http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/0606cu06.htm

NASDA to study effects of space on creativity
Yomiuri Shimbun

Art will join the hard sciences as a focus of the National Space 
Development Agency of Japan's planned research projects in outer 
space.

Research on artistic creativity in space is to be conducted both on 
the ground and on the International Space Station (ISS), which is 
currently under construction in a joint effort by 16 countries, 
including Japan.

NASDA expects the research to yield unique works of art because it is 
believed that the way humans perceive things can change in space. The 
agency also hopes that artistic activities in space could be a way to 
alleviate astronauts' stress on lengthy missions aboard the space 
station.

NASDA will join with experts from Japanese art universities to 
discuss proposals regarding artistic activities for astronauts in 
outer space and to test those plans by producing trial works of art 
on the ground.

ISS is scheduled to go into operation in 2004. NASDA will start 
building its JEM research laboratory in 2002 as a part of the ISS 
project.

Missions planned for JEM mainly focus on engineering research and 
natural science experiments in zero gravity and studying strong 
radioactive rays in space. But artistic creation will now take its 
place on the research roster.

Artistic endeavors in space are not unprecedented. Takao Doi made 
sketches while aboard the U.S. space shuttle Columbia in November 
1997. Chiaki Mukai composed a tanka poem, a traditional Japanese 
verse form, during her mission on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery in 
October 1998.

  Copyright 2000 The Yomiuri Shimbun


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