Spatial reliefs: Cross-scale space-scapes

Conceived as a peaceful and playful exploration of interstellar space, this augmented reality and sound installation invites the audience to access the experiential dimension of space technologies and how the huge amount of data derived from space exploration can be accessed, appropriated, integrated into the artist's poetics and experienced by the audience. The audience is invited to walk through a softly illuminated room where a few transparent cables come from the ceiling having small augmented reality markers in their extremities. Holding an iPad mini while exploring the space, one will find him/herself immersed in a soundscape populated with 3D models derived from actual micro scale images. The 3D models were generated via parametric design strategies from NASA's Stardust Discovery-class mission's database images of aerogel samples which have captured cosmic dust particles. The soundscape, or the soundtrack for navigating this Augmented Reality interstellar space, is a composition using a combination of sounds derived from images of identified stardust particles in nano scale from the same NASA mission. The installation is a tribute to Helio Oiticica's radical series of red and yellow `Spatial Reliefs' (1960).