The company "Sputnix" (part of the Sitronics Group) will support the project of the Innovation Promotion Fund. As part of the large-scale Space-Pi project, which is aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the study of space technologies, the Sputnix company, together with the payload, will place a sculpture of the Russian artist Nastya Miro in the educational spacecraft. The project is being implemented with the aim of cultural exchange between scientific and creative audiences, and should also draw attention to the topics of ecology and space debris.
On April 19, a presentation of the cultural and technological project "Art in Space" will take place in Gostiny Dvor in Moscow at the leading contemporary art fair "Art Moscow", co-authors of which will be the Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation and the young Russian artist Nastya Miro. The private space company Sputnix is a technology partner of the project.
The artist has created a 3d sculpture of an octopus, which will be placed in a Cubesat spacecraft. Inside, the satellite will be equipped with a tracking camera aimed at the art object. This will make it possible to remotely monitor the installation's space journey.
The aim of the project is to attract the interest of the youth creative audience to the topics of science, art and global environmental problems of the world: pollution of the aquatic environment and space.
"The octopus was not chosen by chance. The image of this animal helps to reveal two different, but important themes at once: symbolic (poetic) and ecological. Usually octopuses are presented as such "sea monsters", octopuses, but the sailors themselves consider them their talismans and assistants when they go out to sea. The theme of ecology is connected with the image of the octopus. Octopuses collect garbage on the bottom of the ocean, which got there because of the not always respectful attitude of man to the surrounding nature and "recycle" it, building new houses for themselves and fish. Thus, what could harm the world's oceans gets a second life. A sculpture of an octopus that sits in a cubicle and collects a house from space debris (in its tentacles it has old satellites, both Soviet and foreign-made and failed rocket stages). This space debris symbolizes a person's dream of conquering the universe and the beginning of the space age," says artist Nastya Miro.
Nastya Miro is a modern Russian artist who has been working with the theme of space for several years. In 2022 and 2023, Nastya had successful exhibitions in the commercial galleries Jart (Moscow) and Ural Vision (Yekaterinburg), dedicated to the theme of the Soviet spaceship Buran.
"The topics that the project touches on are largely related to our activities. We actively participate in projects aimed at involving the younger generation in science and space technologies, we are engaged in aerospace education, equipping educational laboratories and children's centers. In addition, we are participating in the project to create the first Russian VERA plasma engine for satellites, one of the goals of which is to bring the spacecraft out of orbit, which allows us to solve the problem of space debris. Several educational satellites, in the development of which we participated, are equipped with such an engine and are being tested in orbit," says Vladislav Ivanenko, General Director of Sputnics.
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