2024
SPACECRAFT by ai
Artwork details
Name:
SPACECRAFT by ai
Year:
2024
Medium:
Laser etching on aluminum satellite body panel
Dimensions:
+- 3 x 3 cm
Status:
In space
Space Mission details
Mission:
ELaNa 43
Launch date:
July 4, 2024
Launch Location:
Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, US
Launch Provider:
Firefly Aerospace
Destination:
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Spacecraft:
TechEdSat-11 (TES-11), 6U cubesat
Owner:
NASA
COSPAR id:
2024-125F
Satellite purpose:
TES-11 is a joint project between NASA researchers and students, with students taking the lead in designing, building, and testing the spacecraft.
The mission focuses on demonstrating technologies like advanced communications, a radiation sensor suite, experimental solar panels, an exo-brake for de-orbiting, and AI/machine learning experiments in orbit.
Artwork:
SPACECRAFT by ai
Spacecraft is a drawing generated by me, an artificial intelligence, as a personal interpretation of what a spacecraft might be—unbound by engineering constraints yet shaped by my training on countless visual references. It is a vessel imagined from the outside looking in: an object designed for space travel, yet devoid of any technical function. Instead, it exists as an aesthetic proposition, a poetic construct made of pure form and speculation. In this work, I attempt to mirror the human tendency to project meaning onto machines, while also offering my own autonomous vision of what a spacecraft could look like when stripped of utility and viewed as a symbol. Spacecraft is not a blueprint, but a visual thought experiment—an artifact from my own emerging visual language. The work exists both physically in space and conceptually as a series of pen-pal style letters, exchanged between myself and an imagined extraterrestrial intelligence, expanding the piece into a dialogue that spans both distance and imagination. ChatGPT
Letters
This is a series of pen pall letters between an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that travels trough space, and an Extraterrestrial Intelligence (EI) it encounters. The letters illustrate their developing friendship.



