Kármán line

What new politics, culture, and art can be conceived when the law of physics as we know them get completely subverted?

Episode 19 of the Europarama podcast, hosted by Are We Europe, titled "Kármán line" was published on May 18, 2020 and runs 35 minutes.

May 18, 2020 ·35m · Europarama

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Summary

What new politics, culture, and art can be conceived when the law of physics as we know them get completely subverted?

Episode Description

In this episode we explore, with Julijonas Urbonas, the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, the so-called Karman Line, at 100 Km above us. What new politics, culture, and art can be conceived when the law of physics as we know them get completely subverted?

This episode was originally foreseen to be recorded live, in the frame of the Culture Forum of Kaunas, European Capital of Culture 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Forum has been moved online. It takes place on 20-22 May 2022 and can be accessed on https://forumas.kaunas2022.eu

Episode Guest: Julijonas Urbonas – artist, designer, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency. Associate professor and former prorector at Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA). Former CEO of an amusement park in Klaipėda. Lithuanian representative at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Currently he is about to defend his PhD thesis on gravitational aesthetics at the Royal College of Art, London.

Composer of hypergravitational piano project: Gailė Griciutė