Please Save the Date!

Are we alone? – was the name of a radio program which built up a legendary reputation among its band of devoted followers over the years. The show’s still on the air but now called Big Picture Science and is broadcast and podcast on the internet every Thursday, hosted by Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of the SETI Institute, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Mountain View, California.

OUBEY war seiner Zeit voraus, ein visionärer Futurist mit einer starken Vorstellungskraft, der Wissenschaft, Science Fiction und Technologie verfallen war. Seine Nutzung des Amiga 500 um eine neue Art von Kunst zu schaffen – die atemberaubenden PhotonPaintings – war zu seiner Zeit Pionierarbeit. So wird klar, warum das MINDKISS Projekt es ebenso liebt innovative High-Tech-Konzepte für die außergewöhnliche Präsentation von OUBEYs Werk zu nutzen. Das ist Medium und Message zugleich.

On 21st July 1969 American astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. 50 years after this milestone in human history, NASA has recently announced that starting in 2020 it will be offering commercial flights to the International Space Station (ISS). And there’s no lack of takers for these tourist flights in space – even though the ticket for the flight checks in at a cool $ 58 million – not including board and lodging which costs a few million extra. So what brings people to invest a huge fortune for a flight in space? Some deep-seated yearning that’s in all of us?