A (C)osmosis Art in-between Disciplines

Dr Ioannis Michaloudis has experimented with NASA’s nanomaterial silica aerogel as a sculptural medium, and is the first visual artist worldwide using this ethereal material in art. Although originally designed as a space technology material to capture stardust and act as a spacecraft insulator, he has resituated this material into a practice which is allegorical of the creation of sky, clouds and the ether.Yuri Tanaka is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tokyo University of the Arts, where she received her PhD. She is also a Visiting Researcher at Kyoto City University of Arts, a Visiting Scientist at CERN, and the Head of the Cosmic Art Research Committee. Her work pursues the creation of a collaboration mediated by ‘the universe’ as a mutually acceptable idea among diverse experts.