Sophia Lambert

BFA New Media

Artist Website: slambe3.otherpeoplespixels.com

ARTIST STATEMENT: This is not a series of artworks: these are artifacts. From an imagined future museum narrating how a portion of post-apocalyptic humanity abandoned Planet Earth to seek home elsewhere, these objects are preservations of a potential history. These artifacts were owned by a member of the Icarus Program, which was the organization that led the exodus. to develop modes of communication between program members, plan the departure, and advertise the efforts of the program members. These works call on the history of communication and advertising from actual space exploration programs to project models of what similar efforts could look like in a fictionalized future. These works also explore elements of codes and language, exploration and discovery, and human understanding of trajectory, space, and environment.