I'm Going to Exhibit My Work In Space!
Thu, 22 Aug 2013
I love Kickstarter. You get to support some really creative ideas and occasionally get a bargain or something unique as part of the deal. One project I supported recently was the ARKYD publicly accessible space telescope. This is a sort of Hubble for everyone - a telescope in space that the general public can make use of.
For my $25 pledge I helped the project reach its million pound funding goal and in return get to upload an image to an LCD screen on the outside of the telescope and have it photographed with the Earth as a backdrop! I haven't yet decided on the image I will use (the mission won't actually happen until 2015) but I'm pretty sure it will be a digital artwork of some sort.
Now, I'm sure some of the other 17,614 supporters will be doing similar such things for their 'space selfies', but I wonder if those of us who use it to have artworks photographed in space will be the first such artists to have their work 'exhibited' in space? One for the CV I think :-)
