A Marvelous Night for a Moondance

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, January 15, 2025 (courtesy NASA)

At last, the Lunar Codex collection of stills and art from the Colour in Your Life videos has launched! The full films are scheduled to launch November 4th, 2024. The massive Lunar Codex project was founded by Samuel Peralta and has expanded to include 250,000 cultural artifacts from over 40,000 artists from around the world. The Codex is being carried over the course of seven space missions to the moon. It includes representation of works by artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers from 259 countries and 148 indigenous nations, preserved in several media including etched metal, ceramic-glass memory, quartz nano chips, semiconductor memory and/or chromatin-based microfiche.

The New York Times describes it as “A time capsule of human creativity, stored in the sky.”

Artists were curated for inclusion by professional curators and gallerists. Peralta writes: “This is a key difference from other c…