Origami Space Race inicijativni je projekt alternativnog svemirskog programa temeljenog na upotrebi origami svemirskih aviona te na strategijama otvorenog koda. Glavni cilj projekta je zaokret u pristupu svemirskoj tehnologiji, zaokret prema ekološkim tehnologijama te otvorenijem sagledavanju i većoj dostupnosti svemira. U ovom projektu umjetnost djeluje kao stimulans idejama koje razvijaju japanski znanstvenici koji planiraju lansirati origami letjelicu iz Međunarodne svemirske postaje. Ta ideja ima potencijal da postane početna točka nove generacije ekoloških svemirskih letjelica, jednako kao i drugih origami struktura koje se mogu primijeniti u svemiru. Projekt bi želio potaknuti i doprinijeti razvoju tih budućih izuma.
Production: Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana
Sašo Sedlaček (SI)
Sašo Sedlaček was born 1974 in Ljubljana. After graduating at the High School for Design and Photography, he obtained a degree in sculpture from the Fine Arts Academy in Ljubljana and enrolled in postgraduate study of sculpture and new media. Since 2001, he has taken part in numerous group exhibitions internationally and has had several solo exhibitions mostly in Ljubljana where lives and works. In 2005, Sedlaček participated in a residency program run by Ministry of culture of Slovenia in Berlin (Germany) and currently he is at the IAMAS Institute (Institute of Advanced Media and Science) in Gifu, Japan for a 6 month residency program. In 2005, he received an award at the Zogocontest for the best recycling toy in Asolo, Italy for his project No Lego, and in 2006 he received the OHO award for young Slovenian artists for his Beggar project. The award includes a new residency program at the end of the year 2006 in New York City.
