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A Digital Artwork Collection by Refik Anadol exploring the adverse effects of Space upon the human body, a challenge that presents unrivalled hindrances to both the exploration and furthering our understanding of this new frontier.
Refik Anadol Important Memory for Humanity Artwork Collection in partnership with CreativeWorkStudios.
As the first initiative of its kind, celebrated media-artist and designer Refik Anadol utilized data from the first all-civilian space flight (the Inspiration4 mission) to create interpretations of flight data sets aimed to challenge what it means to be human in the new era of space research for the good of all mankind.
NASA-funded research institute TRISH (Translational Research Institute for Space Health) partnered with //CreativeWorkStudios. to collaborate with some of the world’s most inspiring artistic minds in bringing about an awareness of these challenges and solutions to the problems the human body faces both in space and here on Earth. Refik Anadol applied a unique approach through his work to help bring further awareness to these challenges.
As a partner to NASA’s Human Research Program, the institute is charged with mitigating the health and performance challenges for human deep space exploration by finding and funding new, innovative, and disruptive technologies. The goal: to reduce health risks for astronauts and uncover advances for terrestrial healthcare.
TRISH has launched a research platform to study human health in space with private astronauts across many different flights and carriers. TRISH’s EXPAND (Enhancing eXploration Platforms and Analog Definition) program collects pre-flight, post-flight and in-flight health data from multiple space flights and house it in a centralized research database. EXPAND research addresses a wide range of challenges humans may face on long-duration space missions, but also could help solve some challenges on Earth: early detection of medical conditions, mental health, team dynamics and more.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. And families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food—so they can focus on helping their child live.
30% of sales donated to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
//Artist :: Refik Anadol.
Refik Anadol is a Turkish-American award-winning media artist and designer currently on the faculty at the Media Arts School at UCLA and founder of Refik Anadol Studio, a design practice creating immersive and physical art installations.
Refik is a director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. In taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion.
Anadol’s site-specific AI data sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines.
