TY - ADVS
T1 - E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships)
T2 - GOGBOT Festival 2017
AU - Vermeulen, Angelo
N1 - This artwork was created by the DSTART team (based at TU Delft and part of the SEADS collective). Angelo Vermeulen is founder and director of DSTART.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The hostile and unpredictable environment of deep space requires a new conceptual approach for interstellar flight, one that differs radically from any current design in aerospace. Using biology as inspiration, E|A|S suggests creating starships that physically grow and evolve during their journey. Resources extracted through asteroid mining are used to 3D print new components of the ship in an almost endless process of adaptation. The DSTART team is currently developing concept studies and computer simulations to test these ideas. The installation on display here was created by Nils Faber, Andreas Theys and Angelo Vermeulen for GOGBOT. The animations are different preparatory studies of the E|A|S project. They visualize concepts such as modular reconfigurable space architecture, and bio-inspired 3D printing. The supercomputer built with 48 Raspberry Pi units is designed to run starship simulations, and is making its calculations right now during the exhibition. DSTART (TU Delft Starship Team) is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, architects and artists developing next-generation concepts for interstellar exploration. DSTART aims to critically explore ideologies underpinning space exploration paradigms, and tries to propose alternative concepts.Media of output: mixed media art installation.Size: 5 x 2,5 x 2,5 m.
AB - The hostile and unpredictable environment of deep space requires a new conceptual approach for interstellar flight, one that differs radically from any current design in aerospace. Using biology as inspiration, E|A|S suggests creating starships that physically grow and evolve during their journey. Resources extracted through asteroid mining are used to 3D print new components of the ship in an almost endless process of adaptation. The DSTART team is currently developing concept studies and computer simulations to test these ideas. The installation on display here was created by Nils Faber, Andreas Theys and Angelo Vermeulen for GOGBOT. The animations are different preparatory studies of the E|A|S project. They visualize concepts such as modular reconfigurable space architecture, and bio-inspired 3D printing. The supercomputer built with 48 Raspberry Pi units is designed to run starship simulations, and is making its calculations right now during the exhibition. DSTART (TU Delft Starship Team) is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, architects and artists developing next-generation concepts for interstellar exploration. DSTART aims to critically explore ideologies underpinning space exploration paradigms, and tries to propose alternative concepts.Media of output: mixed media art installation.Size: 5 x 2,5 x 2,5 m.
KW - Art and science
KW - Installation art
KW - Space exploration
KW - Interstellar exploration
KW - Starship
KW - Asteroid mining
KW - ISRU
KW - Bio-inspired design
KW - Morphogenetic engineering
KW - Emergence
KW - Self-organization
UR - https://2017.gogbot.nl/portfolio/angelo-vermeulen-d-start/
UR - https://2017.gogbot.nl/
M3 - Exhibition
Y2 - 7 September 2017 through 10 September 2017
ER -