Interesting opportunity!
Sue

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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:05:07 -0000
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Subject: [banffleoarthistconfinfo] Leonardo to participate in Study on a
Cultural Policy for the International Spac


Dear Leonardo Colleague,

The European Space Agency has awarded a consortium let by the Arts
Catalyst and including Leonardo/OLATS, a contract to carry out a 6-
month study into possible future cultural utilisation of the
International Space Station, in particular the European aspects of
the station. Nicola Triscott, Project Manager for the study provides
the following information:

The International Space Station - currently in orbit around the
Earth - is our only permanent human habitation in space. It is a
great achievement of human ingenuity and international cooperation,
as well as a cutting edge research facility.

The European Space Agency is interested to open the International
Space Station to a new community of artistic and cultural users. This
new study sets out to focus and investigate the interest of the
cultural world in the International Space Station, to generate a
policy for involving cultural users in the International Space
Station programme in the longer term, and to develop a representative
set of ready-to-implement demonstrator projects in arts, culture and
media. 

Under the lead of the Arts Catalyst (London, UK), the study team also
includes Leonardo-OLATS (Paris, France), Delta Utec (Leiden,
Netherlands) and the MIR Network, a group of European arts
organisations with interests in space in Slovenia, Germany, Spain,
Netherlands, UK and France.

Artists and cultural practitioners across Europe are being consulted
on the features of the International Space Station and its ground-
based support facilities - including launch sites, astronaut training
facilities and national user support centres - that would be of
interest to them. 

To get involved or receive further information about this study,
please email the study leader:

Nicola Triscott: [log in to unmask]

We will send you a 20-page document (1.5 MB) that gives basic
information about the International Space Station and its ground-
based systems. We will also send you a short questionnaire which
might help to focus your thoughts.


At this stage, no restriction on the types of utilisation has been
set, however it should be noted that it is very unlikely that an
artist would have the opportunity themselves to go to the
International Space Station, certainly in the foreseeable future.

The European Space Agency press release about the study is at:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/Pr_p_EN.html

from where you can also access the German and French translation.

Press enquiries should be directed to:

Miranda Pope: [log in to unmask]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards, 

Nicola Triscott
Study Leader
ISS Study Team (Arts Catalyst, Leonardo-OLATS, Delta Utec SRC, MIR
network) 

Nicola Triscott
Director
The Arts Catalyst
the science-art agency
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http://www.artscatalyst.org

For further information on activities of the Leonardo Space Arts
Working Group see: http://www.olats.org