ULISES I :mission to space
ULISES I :mission to space
Mission name : ULISES I, world stage opera.
Satellite name : Ulises I , designed as an art process
Nationality of the mission : Mexico
Mission director, Juan José Díaz Infante
Author: The Mexican Space Collective
Composers, Cabezas de Cera, Arturo Márquez, Hugo Solis, Omar Gasca,
Hi Ku by Teresa Bordona and Fernando Castro
Programming
Juan Galindo y Julio Zaldivar
Sponsored by Fonoteca Nacional, PLAY Festival, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centro Multimedia, Estudio Jamaica, IQH, Fundación BBV, Relaciones Exteriores, INAOE, UNAM.
Curatorial statement:
ULISES I : A mission to space
Poetry, from the root poeisis, term used by many in relationship to the nature of the creative process, Cornelius Castoradis refered to it as the action of creation from a philosophical point of view, Heidegger underlines the moment of pleasure produced when something is away from its original position to become something else.
In greek, poiesis, has to do with the action that gives transformation and continuity to the World.
The satellite will be designed by a team of artists brought together to form The Mexican Space Collective. The MSC is taking the term opera as its original concept, the construction of a hybrid. In the XVI century opera started adding music to greek theater, making it more easy to be watched by the italian royalty.
For the 21st century we are using the term opera as a new hybrid, with the new elements of our times. One genuine attempt of discourse for a possible future. Mcluhan used to say, you can not drive a car forward only looking through the back mirror.
The concept behind this particular art work is replacing the piece of art for its process. Revisiting the thought of Duchamp, the object of art is not the object of art, it is the center of discussion.
A multilevel opera, with many levels of writing.
Taking music as the art of writing it. The constant relationship between the score and the music. The satellite becomes in a certain way a musical instrument.
Everything starts with the need of an idea for the second edition of the PLAY! Festival. An idea to be coherent with the time of crisis we are living. Mexico is being overwhelmed by a terrible crisis, a drug war gone out of control. over 100, 000 deaths in the last 10 years. Not such a nice scenario for a young person to imagine a future. Ulises is a way to prove that there is the possibility of a different reality a different future. If we are able to launch a satellite to orbit with a team with no experience whatsoever in launching something like that before. A story on itself.
There is something deeper in the process of a machine sent to space, the approach of people to technology. Technology, I like to think of it as a way of thinking, it has little to do with the interphase. Dry technology, by itself is very little help, the medium needs content, and there is a problem of a World, very advanced, with nothing to say and no way to go. It is a problem that the term global does not apply to everyone. Very few people understand the ecology of technology, the matter seen as a system. We are trapped in the paradigm of technology, "Garbage in garbage out", when you input garbage data to a perfect model it gives you back garbage results, when you input good data to a garbage model, it gives garbage results. We are trapped in this endless cycle not understanding the potential of thinking and understanding technology in a deeper sense.
The opera will be written as an algorythm. Most probably will transmit data, to be decoded down on Earth.
The satellite will be designed as a musical instrument to "play" the opera and will be programed to interact with the composition.
Still Ulises the first is in its process of creation, and the Mexican Space Collective is very excited to participate in this mission.
Gilberto Esparza worked in the early stages of Ulises and The Mexican Space Collective. Here he is at his lab
Ulises I, Space Opera by the Mexican Space Collective
Text in English and Spanish
Documental Ulises I por DGTVE
Documentary of Ulises I by DGTVE in Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Xuk2ZtPE-b4&app=desktop
Conferencia de Ulises I en español, en Medellín
Conferencia en Medellín, en español Parque Explora
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8x3V4Fliu4
History of Ulises ebook published in English and Spanish, download for free. https://csi.asu.edu/books/ulises/
La historia de Ulises en términos generales ha sido publicada de manera electrónica gracias a un esfuerzo en conjunto con Arizona State University.
Un libro electrónico en inglés y español para descargar gratuito de la Universidad de Arizona State.
https://csi.asu.edu/books/ulises/
Sketch by Edgar Cano
Logo Collective
Model of Ulises I
Arrival of the first pieces, 2011
Portrait of the collective
Ulises at MIT, 2011
Meeting Buz Aldrin at MIT
Interactive sound instalation
orbit simulation
Ulises made in granite
Mojave Space port, Interorbital Systems
Checking Tonga’s Spaceport
Portrait of Von Braun
Model of a modular rocket at Inter Orbital
Testing tower at Mojave
Score by Arturo Márquez
Centro Multimedia testing Ulises
Hi Ku by Teresa Bordona and Fernando Castro
Captain and first officer by Emilia Bellón
Piece by Hugo Solis
Ulises at MIT
Fabrica, un centro cultural de Beneton, se expuso un Kiosko de Ulises y se llevó a cabo un taller de ART CANSATS, 2018.
Cumpleaños de Leonardo 50-100, aquí estpa Roger Malina en Ars Electrónica habiendo comisionado al Colectivo una misión a la Luna. 2018.
Se repartieron 1800 licencias de libros de la historia de Ulises I en el “First Global Challenge de Robótica” a los chavos que participaban haciendo robots para la competencia, libros que les diera la guía para establecer la intención del paradigma “STEAM”. 1800 licenses were given to Fundación Azteca to distribute the Ulises I book in ENglish and Spanish. 2018
At Arts Catalist in London
Kosmika lecture in English 2011
Fabrica, Treviso Italy / English
http://www.fabrica.it/juan-jose-diaz-infante/
Astronauts Job Fair
https://www.astronautjobfair.org/astronaut-instructors
Programa especial de radio UAM radio
Charla en New America / Slate in Washington, en inglés junto con presentaciónTavares
https://www.newamerica.org/future-tense/events/poetry-space/
Artículo en Letras Libres
Strangers in the night,
http://www.letraslibres.com/mexico/ciencia-y-tecnologia/strangers-night-la-historia-del-ulises-
Artículo del libro Ulises I en el Universal
https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/colectivo-circulo-rojo/ulises-i