{"id":101537,"date":"2021-03-13T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101537"},"modified":"2021-03-13T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T16:47:30","slug":"on-a-time-capsule-to-the-moon-with-1200-artists-and-one-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=101537","title":{"rendered":"On a Time Capsule to the Moon with 1200 Artists and One A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Peregrine Collection \u2013 an assembly of thousands of creative works by over 1200 creative artists and one A.I. \u2013 is headed for the Moon.<\/p>\n

Coordinated by Dr. Samuel Peralta, the Artists on the Moon (AOTM) project is joining NASA\u2019s scientific payloads on Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine Mission One, the first commercial launch in history, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket to Lacus Mortis on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

Dr. Peralta, a physicist and entrepreneur, is also an author, whose fiction has hit the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists, and whose poetry has won awards worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fourteen on my first launch, an Antares model rocket kit by powered by an Estes solid-propellant engine the size of my thumb,\u201d said Dr. Peralta. \u201cNow we\u2019re on Astrobotic\u2019s lunar lander on a ULA Vulcan Centaur rocket headed for the Moon. Wow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The centerpieces of Dr. Peralta\u2019s payload are the 21 volumes of his own Future Chronicles anthologies, all Amazon bestsellers, and 15 PoetsArtists art magazines and exhibition catalogs, one of which he helmed as guest curator for publisher and art curator Didi Menendez. Each individual volume provided scores of curated contemporary art and short stories for the time capsule.<\/p>\n

Together with other art books, anthologies, novels, music, and screenplays – including for the short film Real Artists, which won an Emmy\u00ae Award in 2019 – he and his colleagues have digitized literally thousands of art and fiction for the trip to the Moon.<\/p>\n

Dr. Peralta noted that between AOTM and its sister project, the Writers on the Moon group coordinated by fellow author Dr. Susan Kaye Quinn, several thousand creative artists and writers are now represented for the lunar journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is that future travelers who find this capsule will discover some of the richness of our world today,\u201d Dr. Peralta said. \u201cIt speaks to the idea that, despite wars and pandemics and climate upheaval, humankind found time to dream, time to create art.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Peregrine Collection represents creative artists from all over the globe, including from Canada, the US, the U.K., Ireland, Belgium, Australia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and the Philippines. It includes a collaborative human-AI work of poetry between Dr. Peralta and OSUN, an OpenAI-based machine programmed by Sri Lankan author and researcher Yudhanjaya Wijeratne.<\/p>\n

The Peregrine Collection is among the most diverse collections of contemporary cultural work assembled for launch into space, and is believed to be the first-ever project to place the work of women artists on the Moon.<\/p>\n

The digitized artwork and literature files are contained in two microSD cards, encapsulated in DHL MoonBox capsules. Delivery is by Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine Lunar Lander, through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.<\/p>\n

Launch is scheduled in July 2021 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the lander will touch down in the Lacus Mortis region of the Moon, marking Earth\u2019s return, and the first mission carrying commercial payloads, to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peregrine Collection \u2013 an assembly of thousands of creative works by over 1200 creative artists and one A.I. \u2013 is headed for the Moon. Coordinated by Dr. Samuel Peralta, the Artists on the Moon (AOTM) project is joining NASA\u2019s scientific payloads on Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine Mission One, the first commercial launch in history, on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[25843],"class_list":["post-101537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-on-a-time-capsule-to-the-moon-with-1200-artists-and-one-a-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101537"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}