A RETROSPECTIVE FOR THE FUTURE
2024
Encapsulates Amy Karle’s body of work exploring technology’s profound implications on humanity and the future. This project marks the first artist/designer retrospective in space, transforming the traditional concept of a retrospective into a forward-looking archive. Created as a snapshot in time, encapsulating questions about the future – for the future to find. Symbolizing a quest for understanding through art, design, science, technology, and philosophy, it will be placed on the moon November 2024, inviting future finders to reflect on aspirations and ethical considerations in Karle’s body of work.
What questions and concerns of humanity are truly timeless and universal?
The retrospective not only looks back at the advancements and challenges of our time but also inspires a future where technology supports and enhances human life and the environment.
INNOVATION
- This project marks the first time an artist/designer’s retrospective will be launched into space and placed on the moon.
- Prioritizes cultural, philosophical, and artistic exchange alongside space exploration and scientific discovery.
- Looks back from a future perspective, utilizes space and the moon as a way to contemplate and share through time, as method of long-term preservation and cultural archiving, and to communicate with future finders.
IMPACT
A Retrospective For The Future prompts reflection on what it means to be human and what it means to be alive at this point in time. The project and body of work contained within addresses contemporary issues related to technological integration, sustainability, the human condition, and the future of human existence.
- Expands art and design’s reach by extending where art can exist and be experienced into space and across time.
- Encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Provokes thought on the meaning of a retrospective for the future and potential future finders.
- May inspire new forms of space-based art, design work, and cultural projects.
- Raises questions about our current point in time, the nature of life, and our place in the universe.
Thank you to supporters / collaborators
NASA, SpaceX, Lonestar, Interstellar, Intuitive Machines
and all those who made this project possible
Partners:
Lonestar https://www.lonestarlunar.com/
Project:
Lonestar Humanitarian Lunar Data Storage
Interstellar – Expanded Aspire One Mission – Interstellar Website https://www.interstellarfoundation.com/
Mission:
Intuitive Machines 2 (PRIME 1) NASA NSSDCA ID: PRIME-1 https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=PRIME-1
LONESTAR’s Freedom mission is scheduled to fly in Q4 2024 with Intuitive Machines launching from Florida with SpaceX.
Mission is to the South Lunar Pole on the Lunar Surface