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The Frame

Space-inspired works by NASA artists now on display at AxS Festival in Pasadena

By The Frame Staff
Published Sep 23, 2014
Dan Goods and David Delgado with a model of the Robo Simian that later became an actual robot used by engineers at JPL.
Dan Goods and David Delgado with a model of the Robo Simian that later became an actual robot used by engineers at JPL.
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David Delgado sets up the comet installation across from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. Many of the projects by JPL's artists are meant to create interest in NASA mission by engaging people with art.
David Delgado sets up the comet installation across from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. Many of the projects by JPL's artists are meant to create interest in NASA mission by engaging people with art.
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Dan Goods, visual strategist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory creates projects that visualize NASA missions. He is framed by The Pulse, a data visualization installation that reacts when information is sent to and received by spacecraft in deep space.
Dan Goods, visual strategist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory creates projects that visualize NASA missions. He is framed by The Pulse, a data visualization installation that reacts when information is sent to and received by spacecraft in deep space.
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David Delgado is an artist and designer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He stood inside an artist model of a comet made from metal that emits steam to mimic the comet's tail. The project relates to a European and U.S. mission that will attach spacecraft to a comet.
David Delgado is an artist and designer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He stood inside an artist model of a comet made from metal that emits steam to mimic the comet's tail. The project relates to a European and U.S. mission that will attach spacecraft to a comet.
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Benjamin Brayfield/KPCC
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Space-inspired works by NASA artists now on display at AxS Festival in Pasadena

Art and science seem irreconcilable, right?

Art is free-form and intuitive, capricious and personal — a matter of perspective. Science is linear and reasoned – prizing discipline to arrive at at predictable answers.

A series of lectures, performances, exhibitions and installations underway in Pasadena asks the question of whether there are any points where art and science intersect. The 17-day AxS Festival kicked off Sept. 19 and continues through Oct. 5. One of its attractions is a sculpture of a comet.  

KPCC’s Sanden Totten takes a look at what it tells about art and science.