The works of 30,000 artists from 157 countries will be stored on the Moon as a digital archive in the project called "Lunar Codex", presented by Apple at the "Wonderlust" event. This collection includes a portrait made of Lego bricks, wooden blocks printed on Ukrainian soil, and collections of poetry from every continent. Works will be digitized onto memory cards or laser-engraved onto NanoFiche, a 21st-century update to film-based microfiche.
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Canadian physicist and art collector Samuel Peralta said that this project will be a message to future generations that wars, pandemics and economic crises do not hinder people's ability to create beauty.
Collected from 30,000 artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians from 157 countries, images, objects, magazines, books, podcasts, films and music are divided into four capsules.
Part of the collection, the Orion Collection, flew around the Moon last year as part of NASA's Artemis 1 mission. In the following months, the Lunar Codex capsules will be transported to various locations on the Moon's south pole and the Sinus Viscositatis.
However, the Lunar Codex collection stands out for its content and scope. Ayana Ross's 2021 Bennett Award-winning New American Gothic for women artists in the archive; Wood and linoleum prints by Oleysa Djurayeva, a printmaker who left Kyiv immediately after the Russian occupation of Ukraine; and will feature paintings by artist and poet Connie Carleta Sales, who lives with neuromyelitis optica, an autoimmune disease that targets the spinal cord and optic nerves.
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