Carbon Culture Review interview with Cellular and Molecular Neuroscientist Jancy McPhee, Ph.D, Director of Humans in Space Art (HISA) a program bridging the gap between space exploration and the arts. Credits for displayed artwork can be found on HISA’s Online Gallery for 2010 and 2012.
“One of the other key reason for the Humans In Space Art program is not just to bring science and technology together with the arts but it’s also to cross demographic barriers and national barriers and to bring people together working together as collaboratively as possible no matter where they come from or what age they are; to really start to, in an idealistic way, encourage our exploration of space as the human race… ” ~ Jancy McPhee
For more information, visit Humans in Space Art and the nonprofit organization that manages the Humans in Space Art Program, SciArt Exchange.
The following art, literary and music entrees are mentioned in the HISA Interview:
Himaprabal Goud, 15 years old, India
2nd Overall Visual Art Age 14-18 and 1st Place 2D General O Visual Art Age 14-18
Ruslan Yurasov, Age 10-13, Russian Federation
2nd Place Subgenre-2D Visual Art, Age 10-13, Non-Anime, Older
HISA Music entrees can be found here: 2012 and 2010.
- Turkish pop—The Land of Stars, Gulce by DEMIREL and Eylul KIRDAK, which can also be seen playing on the International Space station here.
- Rap—Space, by Alexey Shuvaev
- Folk (ballad)-The Explatoraticious Engineer, by Charlotte Vine
- Classical —The Pillars of Creation, by Max Friedman from 2012 youth music
- AND also from 2010 music gallery link …Fortunam, IV. A Glimmer by James Tabata at
LIMITS a poem by Sara Jovanovska, 16 years old, Macedonia 2nd Overall Literture Prize Ages 14-18 1st place Poetry NNE Literature Ages 14-18.
The short story involving astronauts finding something they didn’t bring with them: from the 2012 Youth Art Competition: NOT ONE OF OURS by Prannoiy Chandran 16 years old, Singapore 2nd Overall Literature Age 14-18 & 1st Place Short Story NNE Literarature Age 14
Sputniko’s Lunar Girl.
More about Sputniko’s work and the CAFÉ project
In April 2011, while orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station, astronauts Cady Coleman and Ron Garan read Kushal Kadakia’s winning poem, Into the Glorious Future We Go, from the 2010 Competition.
