UNTITLED ART OBJECT

/Venice edition

Phosphorus/70% Carbon/13% Silicon/5% Hydrogen/1% Lithium/.5% Trace Elements/10%

X Value——-----—-2.3m
Y Value------------ 4.14m
Z Value------------ 0 < 1×10−18 eV/c2
Temperature——--288.05 K (14.9 C)
Location————--Latitude: 45.443795 | Longitude: 12.327695 (Venice, Italy)

Age ≈ 13824000 Earth Seconds

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Sans Titre / Material Phases of Suns continues the Sans Titre project as an encounter of the material universe as one cosmological scale. The mass of the untitled art object is not a summary for Corday; its mass is a duration of the material universe, specific and inseparable. This immersive long-form simulation projects a field of particles developing the ITER-embedded art object turning in real-time with our Sun.

Sans Titre’s helical fastening structure completes one helical thread or rotation every 26.24 earth days. The developing composition releases the ocular gaze at the very edge of perception demanding fuller awareness as the simulation, the artist, the visitor, the tokamak, each embark an experience of our Sun. This work follows a shared structure—the helical twist—within Sans Titre’s fastening surface, the magnetic fields of the Sun, and toroidal pulse of ITER.

Corday’s practice as a sculptor uses matter as an atomic clay of time, space, existence. The foundries of Sans Titre metals are ancient stellar furnaces gone billions of years continuing works of its dross and slag in an exacting immaculate vernacular, what Corday terms an ‘elemental architecture.’ This elemental architecture forms generations of suns and the universal palette of elements. The artist conceives the untitled art object not only a material moment between birth and death of suns, but as a durational form of the stars, a material phase of suns.

We are the witnessing, participating generation of a sun being built on Earth. The Sans Titre project places Art as the final global contributor to ITER joining its thirty-five nation devotion. Please follow this project in its evolving conversation between suns.

TERRESTRIAL SUN

Hydrogen/100% [Deuterium and Tritium]

Plasma Radius———————---6.2m
Plasma Volume———————--840m3
Surface Area––––––––––—-—--180 hectares
Weight --------------------------23000 Tons
Temperature————————---1.5e + 8K (150,000,000 C)
Fusion Power————————–-500 MW
Input Heating Power—————–50 MW
Components———————-—--9,999,999 (Industry) + 1 (Art)
Contributing Countries——--— 35 + Art
Location——————------------43.707096099853516, 5.774602890014648 (Saint Paul Lez Durance, France)

Age ≈ begins Earth year 2025

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ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is one of the most complex engineering projects in history, aiming to build the world’s largest fusion machine. It will require millions of components to assemble the giant reactor that will weigh 23,000 tonnes and house the tokamak—an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. The heart of a tokamak is its doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber. Inside, under the influence of extreme heat and pressure, gaseous hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma, the very environment in which hydrogen atoms can be brought to fuse and yield energy. Just like a conventional power plant, a fusion power plant will use this heat to produce steam and then electricity by way of turbines and generators.

Thousands of engineers and scientists have contributed to the design of ITER since the idea for an international joint experiment in fusion was first launched in 1985. The ITER Members—China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States—are now engaged in a 35-year collaboration to build and operate the ITER experimental device, and together bring fusion to the point where a demonstration fusion reactor can be designed.

ITER aims to produce 10 times more fusion power than the heating power put into the plasma, making it the key experimental step between today’s research machines and tomorrow’s fusion power plants.

Fusion is the same energy source generated from the Sun that gives the Earth its light and warmth. Though ITER itself will not produce electricity—it is rather intended to prove that large-scale fusion is possible—it represents a massive step in the creation of fusion energy, and will drive the transition from research to reality.

CELESTIAL SUN

Hydrogen/73.46% Helium/24.85% Oxygen/0.77% Carbon/0.29%
Iron/0.16% Neon/0.12% Nitrogen/0.09% Silicon/0.07%
Magnesium/0.05% Sulphur/0.04%

Equatorial radius------------------------695,700 km, 696,342 km 109 × Earth
Equatorial circumference---------------4.379×106 km 109 × Earth
Flattening--------------------------------9×10−6
Surface area-----------------------------6.09×1012 km2 12,000 × Earth
Volume-----------------------------------1.41×1018 km3 1,300,000 × Earth Mass -------------------------------------1.9885×1030 kg 333,000 Earths
Average density -------------------------1.408 g/cm3 0.255 × Earth
Center density (modeled)---------------162.2 g/cm3 12.4 × Earth
Equatorial surface gravity --------------274 m/s2 28 × Earth
Moment of inertia factor----------------0.070 (estimate)
Escape velocity (from the surface)-----617.7 km/s 55 × Earth
Temperature Center (modeled)---------1.57×107 K
Photosphere (effective)-----------------5,772 K
Corona-----------------------------------5×106 K
Luminosity (Lsol)------------------------3.828×1026 W ≈ 3.75×1028 lm ≈ 98
Mean radiance (Iso)---------------------2.009×107 W·m−2·sr−1

Age ≈ 4.6 billion years