"My Sunshine is a utopian project, suspended between art and science, visionary ideas and social issues, poetry and hyper - technology. Its aim is to produce a flying object that reflects sunlight to a specific area of Earth in order to appear as the Sun itself.
A broader version of My Sunshine contemplates the production of several copies of the aerostat, which shall create the effect of multiple suns in the sky.
The project concentrates on areas around the Arctic Circle where, due to the rotation of the Earth’s axis, during the winter the Sun stays below the horizon, its rays unable to illuminate the ground. This phenomenon has a massive influence on the emotional state and relational dynamics of the local population.
The project itself consists of a open process that evolves through a extensive participation of the public, moving from the scientific community, astrophysicists, engineers, architects, to embrace whoever wishes to join in the realization of a dream called My Sunshine.
My Sunshine was initiated in Trieste, Italy, where it received the European Emerging Artist Award, where a research in collaboration with the International Center for Theoretical Physics was made on the feasibility of the project. Later in the residency Pollinaria in Abruzzi, Italy, My Sunshine developed in a further phase, where the first prototype model was realized. In the winter of 2009 a test session was realized in Rovaniemi in collaboration with the University of Lapland.
Finnish production company Lumination Films is making a documentary about the project: its social and emotional effects on the people involved, and the creative process.
The research and the flying prototype will be presented in mobile laboratory as a part of the Macedonian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale of Arts.
After the biennale the laboratory and the aerostat will be transferred to Lapland for further development."
http://www.my-sunshine.eu/
