News for artist Frank Pietronigro

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Pietronigro to Speak at SETI Institute

February 12, 2005

Mountain View, Calif. — Interdisciplinary artist Frank Pietronigro will speak at the SETI Institute during the program Space Artists: The Cultural Frontiers of Space Travel on February 12 in Mountain View, California.

The program, presented in conjunction with the Workshop on Space Artists’ Residencies and Collaborations, will feature artists who use outer space as their medium. It is sponsored by Zero One: The Art and Technology Network, the SETI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium.

Program Schedule:

8:10 – 8:20   Lorelei Lisowsky — History of Space Art

8:20 – 8:30   Dr. Guenter Riegler — History of Science

8:30 – 8:50   Lowry Burgess — The Boundless Cubic Lunar Aperture

8:50 – 9:10   Frank Pietronigro — ‘Drifting Painting’ in Microgravity and the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium

9:10 – 9:20   Jean-Luc Soret — Space Art, A New Mythology

9:20 – 9:40   Anna Piva and Eddie George — Flow Motion

9:40 – 9:50   Steven Wilson — Journal Leonardo and the Leonardo Space Arts Workgroup

9:50 – 10:10   Dan Goods — The How and Why of being an Artist In Residence at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

10:10 – 10:15   Lowry Burgess, Dan Goods, Lorelei Lisowsky, Frank Pietronigro — Update from the Organizing Committee Workshop on Space Artists’ Residencies and Collaborations

10:15   Dr. Douglas Vakoch — Closing

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April 25, 2006
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April 21, 2006
Frank Pietronigro Will Fly for Second Time in Microgravity as Part of SKY STUDIO
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March 18, 2006
Artists Whose Medium is Outer Space to Speak at Carnegie Mellon University
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August 26, 2005
Fortune Magazine Features Space Artists in “This Just In”
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June 23, 2005
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May 4, 2005
US Space Artists to Learn How to Utilize International Space Station for Cultural Activities
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March 23, 2005
Space Artist to Lecture at San Francisco Art Institute
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March 15, 2005
Pietronigro to Be Featured on KQED's Spark!
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February 12, 2005
Pietronigro to Speak at SETI Institute
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January 30, 2005
Pietronigro Co-Organizes Workshop on Space Artists’ Residencies and Collaborations
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April 23, 2004
European Space Agency Invites U.S. Artists to Present New Plans for Art in Space
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December 6, 2003
Pietronigro's Artwork Curated Into the 2003 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy
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October 1, 2003
Interdisciplinary Artist Frank Pietronigro Presents Space Art at Art Outsiders International Festival 2003 in Paris
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September 30, 2003
Zero Gravity Arts Consortium to Support Creation of Art in Microgravity
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October 15, 2002
Frank Pietronigro Sits on Panel at SKY ART Conference 2002 in Greece
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September 1, 2002
A Radical New Tate Museum Includes Pietronigro
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