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Arthur Woods Biography (cont.)
Other Activities
In 1990 I founded the OURS Foundation , a non-profit cultural and astronautical organization based in Switzerland which is dedicated to the establishment of a cultural dimension within humanity's space endeavors.
Besides organizing art and space events both on and off Earth, the OURS Foundation has been actively developing and elaborating a concept called The Space Option. This concept proposes the large scale utilization of the infinite resources of space to meet the growing needs of humanity on Earth as the most optimistic path to humanity's future well being. During 2000 and 2001 the OURS Foundation collaborated with the European Space Agency and the Maison d'Ailleurs (House of Elsewhere, Yverdon, Switzerland) in a research project about innovative technologies found in Science Fiction. ITSF.
For my work and active engagement in the astronautical field, I was elected as a Member to the International Academy of Astronautics and presently I help organize workshops and symposium on the arts and cultural dimensions of space exploration and development. I was also elected as a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists .
In 1996, I founded Swissart GmbH, an Internet company which develops and maintains swissart.net - the Swiss Art Portal - a website dedicated to the contemporary arts in Switzerland.
In 2003, with my partner Patrick Gyger, I co-founded a space company called spaceOp sàrl which is designed to help open the new space frontier.
In 2004, I opened a personal art gallery and office in the historic Swiss town of Stein am Rhein.
Press Articles and Publications
  
Articles online
"Against Gravitropism: Art and the Joys of Levitation", Eduardo Kac - Tate-in-Space 2002
http://www.tate.org.uk/space/spaceart.htm
Against Gravitropism: Art and the Joys of Levitation" Version: 2003
http://www.ekac.org/levitation.html
"The Art Of Life Is Universal", interview with Hans-Arthur Marsiske, spacedaily.com - June 27, 2002
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spaceart-02a.html
"Leben muss sich ausbreiten - Der Weltraumkünstler Arthur Woods über die kulturelle Bedeutung der Raumfahrt",
Hans-Arthur Marsiske -05.05.2002
http://www.ix.de/tp/deutsch/special/raum/12260/1.html
"The Odds and Ends of Space Station Mir", Robert Pearlman
Space.com - 12.03.2001
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/mir_junk_010312.html
"Can Art Break Science's Monopoly Grip On Space", Greg Clark
Space.com - 23.04.2000
http://www.space.com/news/spacestation/iss_isadora_000423.html
Publications
The OURS Foundation Publications
http://www.ours.ch
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