The third featured artwork for the Art for Artemis project is from Till Langschied from Germany:

For me machines and technology are more than mere tools or objects. They have metaphysical meanings. They are ways in which humans try to position themselves within the cosmos. This is why I am so fascinated by space technology, because within this field the dreams and aspirations embedded into the technological structures are very tangible.

For “In-between Spaces“ I was interested in entangling these images of the cosmos and space technology with structures of plants, building a bridge towards nature.

Credits: T. Langschied

What school are you studying at and what discipline are you studying?

I did my bachelor’s in fine arts at the Institut Kunst HGK in Basel. Before that I had graduated from the AMD in Düsseldorf with a degree in design management. Currently, I am studying at the Dutch Art Institute which is a roaming academy focused on critical theory and collective work processes.

Tell us about the technique used to make your Art for Artemis piece.

My work for the Art for Artemis project is called “In-between Space VII“. It is part of a series of digital images that started out with glitched scans of a 1998 Kennedy Space Center brochure. I kept this brochure from when I visited the center in Florida as an 11-year-old boy who was mesmerised by the idea of an International Space Station, for which construction just had started that year. By glitching and digitally manipulating these images, I tried to open-up their meaning because there is not a singular idea of space or how to travel it. The universe is a fresh canvas for our aspirations.

What inspired you to make the artwork and who are your inspirations in general?

For me machines and technology are more than mere tools or objects. They have metaphysical meanings. They are ways in which humans try to position themselves within the cosmos. This is why I am so fascinated by space technology, because within this field the dreams and aspirations embedded into the technological structures are very tangible.

For “In-between Spaces“ I was interested in entangling images of the cosmos and space technology with structures of plants, building a bridge between technology and nature. As the question of living bodies existing within space become more pressing, we have to see nature as an anchor when taking root among the stars. The structures of the scanned plants blend in very well with the advertised images of space, reminding us that all these things are connected. The microscopic and the gigantic mirror each other.

To build this bridge between microcosm and macrocosm, I spun the pixels and let the created images expand into intensive colour gradients at their centre. Even with all the science that took us to this moment in time with its endless possibilities, there is a moment in which the belief in adventure and beauty takes over. Where opportunities emerge because space and time fold together in before unseen ways. This is the moment I tried to capture with these images. A trust in technology with a radical hope for a place where it might take us to.

Do you have any thoughts to share about the Moon and human spaceflight?

The short history of space technology and human space travel has undergone a variety of different phases, each of those were highly intertwined with political and economic realities of their time.

Space exploration needs to be a discipling of mind-expanding philosophy. This is what the cosmos can do so well: inspire us to dream. But to dream a dream rooted in earth.

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