"Celestium" was created onboard NASA's part of the International Space Station (ISS), where it moves around earth at 386 km altitude. The AI ​​blockchain algorithm collects cosmic radiation from space, which is used to create the artwork's unique artificial intelligence-generated images and blockchain tokens.

“It has been an incredibly exciting journey. Thanks to NASA and CASIS, the International Space Station is an amazing test site for new technology and now also a place where digital art can be created ", says artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm and adds:" With this particular artwork, we want to thematize the increasing space capitalism that takes place right now, and start a debate on the decentralization and democratization of space resources”.

The "Celestium" artwork is based on an idea by ​​Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm and Danich tech entrepreneur Niels Zibrandtsen, who among other things is the founder of the MindFuture Foundation, whose purpose is to initiate and facilitate an on-going debate about the use of new technology.

"The idea with “Celestium” is to focus on the opportunities and challenges in which new monetary systems outside our small earth can bring about," says chairman of the board of the MindFuture Foundation, Niels Zibrandtsen.

The technology behind the artwork is developed by artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm's art-tech studio ARTificial Mind, where software developers Jens Hegner Stærmose and Alexander Krog have been at the forefront of programming the complex machine learning software and blockchain technology that drives the unique artwork.

Cecilie and her tech team have been working hard for a whole year to create the artwork with the assistance of space mission companies Lonestar and Redwire Corporation working closely with NASA to enable the artwork. In addition, a collaboration with the open-source tech company Canonical and their Ubunto Core technology has made it possible for the artwork's software to run in a system with limited computer resources, so that the artwork could be sent into space. The non-profit organization, The MindFuture Foundation, has supported the project financially, and former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott from Space for Art Foundation has contributed with sparring and photos.

Everybody can interact for free with the artwork by visiting the artwork's website: https://celestium.space

Read more about the artwork here: www.artificialmind.ai/projects/celestium
Read more about the MindFuture Foundation here: www.mindfuturefoundation.ai

Contakt: Artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / +4560600645 / [email protected]
Contact: Niels Zibrandtsen / +4553538888