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Iris Yip
15-104 Section D
Looking-Outwards
VIMEO VIDEO: UNEXPECTED SPACE EXPLORATION
For this week, I looked at Ariel Waldman’s works, the founder of Spacehack.org, and a multidisciplinary artist who works as the chair of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program council. A lot of her work explores the creative side of science and advocates for accessibility on the topic of space exploration and other interesting scientific topics.
The thing I personally admire about her most is her background as an art student and her continued mission to bridge the gap between more stem-oriented and artistically oriented practices in her work.
She also intentionally portrays herself as more approachable, especially seen in her youtube videos (which are done professionally but also with a casual tone) that fall in line with her general philosophy of making a traditionally more serious topic more whimsical and less rigid. One of the works of hers that caught my eye was her 2018 EYEO presentation, UNEXPECTED SPACE EXPLORATION. She goes into depth to take about her work at NASA that specifically works to foster more creative and “sci-fi-esque” ideas that could potentially work to transform future missions.
