SKYPOIETIC: ART AND SCIENCE IN THE CLIMATIC SCULPTUREALITY PROJECT

摘要

This paper continues the discussion we had opened with the paper Etherospermia: Conceptual art, science and allegory in the sky-seeding project, presented in last year's IAC in Beijing and published in Acta Astronautica 104 (2014) 61-70. Here the invented word Skypoieetic is constructed using po'ietic (from Greek: πoιητκοζ "creative") meaning productive ox formative. In Plato's Symposium Diotima presents how mortals strive for immortality in relation to poiesis: in all creating and bringing forth upon the beautiful there is a kind of making/creating or poiesis. In this genesis there is a movement beyond the temporal cycle of birth and decay. "Such a movement can occur in three kinds of poiesis: 1) Natural poiesis through sexual procreation, 2) poiesis in the city through the attainment of heroic fame, and, finally and 3) poiesis in the soul through the cultivation of virtue and knowledge. In this paper we'll present the "utopoetic" aspects of an art and science project by advancing further our last year's (u)topic/approach on Etherospermia. This will be possible by a closer examination on the poiesis, the creation of seven artworks of Michaloudis based on the space nanomaterial silica aerogel and its quality to capture vapors. This ethereal (lm)material is seen by the artist and the authors as the perfect personification of our sky. If our wounded atmosphere needs to be duplicated onto other planets in order to create future habitats for the being, our Climatic Sculptureality project could give the po'ietic elucidation.