Game Art: Tom Sachs' "Space Program 2.0" (2012)

Tom Sachs' "Space Program 2.0: Mars". Showing at NYC's Park Avenue Armory, May 2012. Sachs uses a variety of tools to simulate space exploration in his performance, including Atari's Lunar Lander (1979), briefly seen in the trailer. From May 18 through June 17, Mr. Sachs will leave Earth (but not really) for the Red Planet. He has created a spacecraft, exploratory vehicles, mission control, launch platforms and an entire Martian landscape reminiscent of Capricorn One. He has also produced “elaborate instruments of space travel out of glue, packaging and found materials,” according to his press release. Space Program 1.0 is available here.

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Submitted by Matteo Bittanti