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<font face="Avenir">Dear friends and colleagues,<br>
<br>
Most art residencies asks for a project and most of the
time on a specific theme. For the Maison Malina Residencies with
Leonardo/Olats
I took the opposite approach: no theme, no topic, no obligation
for production
of any kind. <br>
The results are quite exciting, I must say. Here the
first one to be announced, more to come!<br>
Enjoy!<br>
Best<br>
Annick<br>
<br>
<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Adsum, </i></b><b>the New Space Artwork by Eduardo
Kac to launch on
February 19th 2022.</b> <br>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Adsum</i> will fly<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
on an Antares 230+ rocket from Wallops Flight Facility,
Virginia, to the International Space Station. </span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span><span style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34);">Watch
it live! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8CmrJFyYt4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8CmrJFyYt4</a></span> <br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Northrop
Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket no earlier
than 12:39 p.m.
EST / 18:39 CET Saturday, Feb. 19, from NASA's spaceport on
Wallops
Island, Virginia.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span><span style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span>From the artist's
website: <br>
"<i>Adsum </i>is a cubic glass sculpture inside of which
letters are laser engraved. The letters are positioned one in
front of the
other, thus forming a spatial poem inside the solid glass cube
that can be read
in any direction. 'Adsum' means “I am here” in Latin, as used to
indicate that
the speaker is present (equivalent to the exclamation "here!" in a
roll call). <br>
<br>
To create this space poem, I developed a new
typeface in which the letter “N” takes the form of an hourglass
and the letter
“S” has the shape of the infinity symbol. This is so in order for
the work to
be legible from any point of view within the cube. The two other
letters, which
stand between “N” and “S,” are a lowercase “o” and an uppercase
“O” (evoking
the Moon and the Earth, respectively). Taken together, it is
always possible to
read either NoOS or SOoN in three dimensions".<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ekac.org/adsum.html">https://www.ekac.org/adsum.html</a></span></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><em><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;">Adsum</span></em><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;"> was publicly presented
for the
first time at the EuroMoonMars workshop, November 18-20, 2019, <br>
</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;">realized at the
European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC),
Noordwijk,
Netherlands. <em><br>
</em></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: gray;"><em>Adsum</em> will
fly to the ISS with the support of the
Stichting Moon Gallery Foundation.</span><span style="font-size:
11pt;"> <em><span style="color: gray;"><br>
</span></em></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: gray;">Adsum</span></em><span
style="color:gray"> was conceived and produced in 2019 during
a Maison
Malina Residency in Paris, <br>
</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color:gray">curated by
Annick Bureaud and organized by
Leonardo/Olats with the support of Fondation Daniel & Nina
Carasso. <br>
</span></span></font>
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