| NAME: | Frank Pietronigro Interdisciplinary Artist |
| ROLE: | Project Director and Co-Founder, ZGAC |
| BIO: | Associate Fellow, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, College
of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University Project Director and Space Artist Research Project Number: 33 Investigating the Creative Process in a Microgravity Environment |
| PROJECTS: | DRIFT PAINTING SPACE WISHES — a collaborative mircrogravity space arts project, whose harmony will exist between the earth and the sky, via an alternating gravity environment of parabolic flight. The goal of the project is to create a situational "topos" (a three dimensional and/or virtual space + a situation, an "etat d'esprit," a "ba" as defined by Kitaro Nishida) based on trust, love and community. This place of connection will facilitate knowledge exchange synthesized by a microprocessor reading incoming digital messages from an audience watching a webcast of the artist floating and the artist's uncontrolled biological responses to parabolic flight. |
| PAPERS: | Drift Painting in a Microgravity Environment and the
Zero Gravity Arts Consortium prepared for Space: Science, Technology and the Arts, The “7th Workshop on Space and the Arts” European Space Agency Research & Technology Centre, Noordwijk, The Netherlands [view/download] [679KB, requires Acrobat Reader] |
| LINKS: | http://www.pietronigro.com frank@pietronigro.com |