Space Art

Selenoglyph 1

2025 (in progress)

Selenoglyph 1 is a lunar sculpture. The extraterrestrial work’s configuration has an air of mystery—is it a cipher, an asemic sign, or does it harbor a secret folded into its silent presence? Selenoglyph 1 is scheduled to launch in 2026, carried as a standalone artwork within a LifeShip payload integrated into Astrolab’s FLIP lunar rover. FLIP will travel to the Moon aboard Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lunar lander as part of NASA’s Moon Base II mission, an early step toward establishing the agency’s sustained lunar outpost.

Echoes of a Spiral Drift

2026-2031 (in progress)

Echoes of a Spiral Drift is a space artwork that will travel to the Mars system, aboard JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. Scheduled to launch in November–December 2026, the work will journey to Phobos, one of the red planet’s two moons, installed directly on the MMX spacecraft. This work extends artistic practice into interplanetary space, using the mission itself as both medium and context.

The Silent Circle

2024-2026

The Silent Circles is an artwork that embodies the three fundamental phases of a person's life—Youth, Maturity, and Elderhood—as it orbits the Earth across a multi-year continuum. Three AI-driven animations, displayed on a screen directly exposed to the harsh space environment on the satellite's exterior, evoke these phases through mission activations in 2024 (MORNING), 2025 (MIDDAY), and 2026 (MIDNIGHT). Across these three years, the artwork weaves the arc of a human lifetime into a phased spaceborne journey.

Adsum

2019

Kac's space artwork Adsum landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, at 2:34 am CST.

Mater Piscis

2024/2030 (in progress)

The spacecraft Europa Clipper is headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, and includes a microchip with two artworks by Eduardo Kac: Mater Piscis and Syzygy. The launch took place on October 14, 2024, with arrival at Jupiter in 2030. The mission duration is 3.5 years.

Inner Telescope

2017

Kac's space artwork Inner Telescope was specifically conceived for zero gravity and was made in space.

Lagoogleglyphs

2009-ongoing

Works composed specifically to be seen by satellites, to be experienced in person and/or through Google Maps (satellite view), Google Earth or the Google Earth Pro app.