Making Cosmic Choices
If one believes that other technological civilizations have appeared throughout the Cosmos, then one can speculate they must have faced a similar choice that confronts humanity at this particular moment in its history. Did these distant civilizations decide to use …
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A Space Age on Earth : 2019
This essay introduces the need to consider a new perception of our planet called Greater Earth. A perception that is based on Earth’s true cosmic dimensions as defined by the laws of physics and how this new perception may catalyze …
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The Moon as a Cultural Destination
The Moon as a Cultural Destination Arthur Woods (*) Roger Malina, an astrophysicist and editor of Leonardo – the journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, states (1991) : [1] “The creation of contemporary art …
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Space, Art and the Future of Humanity
“spaceoptionism”, “spaceoptimism”, “spaceism” or “………….. “ In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the beginning of the modernist era and of modern art, the avant-garde was characterized by its confidence and optimism about the future. The artists, writers …
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The Spaceflight of the Cosmic Dancer Sculpture to the Mir Space Station
On May 22, 1993, a sculpture called the Cosmic Dancer by the Swiss-American artist Arthur Woods was launched to the Russian Mir space station on a Progress rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Cosmic Dancer – a painted geometric form made …
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