Podcaster: Mike Simmons
Title: GAM AstroArt: Touching the Moon with Art and Footsteps
Organization: CosmoQuest ; Astronomers Without Borders
Link : You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/ZvZkNqclwQA
Description: This live hangout will feature a “touch” and bounce of Humans in Space Youth Art Competition artwork off the Moon using OPTICKS radio wave technology. Guests and remote participants will discuss the significance of the artwork and the performance and explore the impact of past, present, and future human presence on the Moon. #moonbounce
Bio: Mike Simmons, Pressident of Astrnomers Withour Borders
– Andrew Chaikin is the author of Man on the Moon and From Earth to the Moon.
– Wendell Mendell is a retired NASA lunar and planetary exploration scientist.
– Sarah Nobel is a current NASA lunar scientist and artist.
– Frank Shiner is a winner of both the 2010 and 2012 Humans in Space Youth Art Competitions.
– Jan van Muijlwijk, OPTICKS collaborator, radio operator, CAMRAS/Dwingeloo radio telescope.
– Daniela De Paulis is the visual artist and researcher who developed the OPTICKS live performance technology in collaboration with the Dwingeloo radio telescope.
– Jancy McPhee is the director of the Humans in Space Art Program, which includes the Youth Art Competition Project in its portfolio.
– Mike Simmons, host, and director of Astronomers without Borders
– Pamela Gay, producer, and Principle Investigator of CosmoQuest
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