ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Half a century has passed since Apollo 11 made man’s first lunar landing in history. Today, we witness the Rich Boys Club being criticized by the chief of the UN as they race to be the first one in outer space in their private rockets. Still, no female steps have been made on the moon. 

“The Moonwalk Machine - Selena’s Step” unravels a story about the protagonist Selena, a science geek girl, who invents a lunar rover rigged with high-heels with the hope to leave her marks on the surface of the moon. The installation includes an image of a superheroine “Lunar Girl” - which Selena dreams of becoming, as well as the actual lunar rover. The machine was created after Sputniko! visited and consulted with engineers and specialists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and is designed so that the high-heel marks are left firmly on the moon’s surface. True to the word “sci-fi”, the work embodies a mixture of science and fiction, but the inspiration actually came from a DIY scientist, a 13-year-old girl, who succeeded in launching a Hello Kitty doll aboard a rubber balloon into the stratosphere in 2013. 

In 2020, NASA announced its plans on sending humankind to the moon again.
“NASA intends for their astronauts to stay on the Moon by 3D printing lunar bases for habitat and research. They are researching ways to use Moon-dust, the sand-like top-soil of the moon, as printing material.”

With the high-heel moon-rover’s 3D model as NFT included as part of this auction, you can print your very own moon-rover in the material of your choice; plastic, chocolate, or even Moon-dust could be an option in the future. 

Other items in the auction include the movie, still photos, and actual Moon-rover from “The Moonwalk Machine - Selena’s Step”.
 

Exhibited:
2013, October 3 - 2014, January 19, “Tokyo Art Meeting: Bunny Smash – design to touch the world”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo
2014, November 1 - December 14, “2nd Istanbul Design Biennial : The Future is Not What It Used To Be”, Istanbul
2015, April 25 - August 30, “In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2016, March 5 - September 4, “GLOBALE: New Sensorium: Exiting from Failures of Modernisation”, The ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016, July 30 - 2017, January 9, “The Universe and Art”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; 2017, April 1 – July 30, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2016, October 15 - 2017, September 4, “Lunar Attraction”, Essex Peabody Museum, Massachusetts, USA
2017, “VOYAGES”, H QUEEN, Hong Kong
2017, October 20 - 2018, March 5, “Japanorama: A New Vision on Art Since 1970”, Pompidou Center Metz, France
2018, April 6 - October 7, “Gravité Zéro: Une exploration artistique de l'aventure spatiale les Abbatoirs”, Musee-FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, France

Condition Report
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This token was minted on the Startbahn platform called Startrail, which is built on the Polygon blockchain, a Layer 2 sidechain to the Ethereum blockchain.
The Startrail solution built on Polygon where this NFT currently exists is constructed with a thoughtful approach to users and artists deal with art works. 
The security of the token meets standard ERC721 levels, and the solution includes standard ERC721 functions for transferability, but the addition of extra contract functions to enable specific features on the Startrail. 
The tokens created by the Startrail contracts (these are the groups of backed contracts Startbahn uses for the extra functions provided by the platform) do meet ERC721 standards for function use, and can be ported to the ethereum mainnet. What this means is that even though Startbahn recommends users create an email based wallet through tor.us, the tokens can be transferred directly to any ethereum address if desired by the buyer. The buyer may also transfer this NFT to the ethereum main network but additional transaction costs will incur.
To receive this NFT, the preferred way is for the buyer to create a Startbahn Cert. account (https://cert.startbahn.io/en) with their email address. The usage of Startbahn Cert. is free of charge. 
The access to the artwork file(s) is limited to the holder and issuer of the NFT. All ownership history and genuinity of the artwork is securely stored in the Startrail Registry Record (SRR). Even after the NFT work is sold at the auction held by SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd., the artist can apply the terms of use for the NFT holder by agreeing in advance with the current NFT holder. If the terms of use are set, it is necessary for SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd. to set it in the NFT. The latest version of terms of use show always on the viewer page of work of Startbahn Cert.The buyer may resell this NFT via NFT marketplaces, galleries, auction houses or off-chain markets, and transfer the NFT ownership to the next owner via Startbahn Cert.
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 NOTICE
１．About NFT
NFT (Non-Fungible Token)s for this sale are minted on the platform called "Startrail" provided by Startbahn Inc.. Startrail is built on Polygon blockchain, a Layer2 sidechain of Ethereum, and NFT generated on Startrail meets ERC721 standards.
 
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