Covered Skies

May, 4th or 5th until June, 30th 2012

Exhibition, worklabs, conference and performances
Some people are contacted already, but this is far from fixed.
Deadline for project proposals: 20.2.2012

Since 2010, we are busy with satellites; mostly the one, that we are building here, but we are also interested in the others. So, for May and June 2012, we plan an exhibition that will also host some worklabs, a conference and performances.

exhibition

Panoramic Sky
Marian Weger (D/A), Peter Venus< (D/A)
immersive video installation with multichannel sound,
satellite positions visible in a 360degree projection in a 24hour video loop, 2012

coallision Jogi Hofmüller (A)
audiovisual realtime generated installation about the collision of 2 satellites in 2009 and the emerging space debris, 2011/12

Satelite Bolinha Bruno Vianna (BR)
a hacked US-Navy-satellite used by some people in brasil
Video, 2011

Non-newtonian Characters Reni Hofmüller (A)
interactive sound installation

Vapor Trails of Europe Alien Production (A)
radio piece, sound installation

From the Distance Heimo Ranzenbacher (A)
audiovisual installation, 2009. The audio recordings that travel with Voyager are streched to the length in time that the light would need to travel from voyager back to earth, then about 15hours.

opening
Live Performances, Interorbital Systems (Randa Milliron, CEO)

further people, to be asked

The day I did not turn with the Earth, Guido van der Werve, (NL)
Video, 2010

Latent state Andrés Colubri (AR)
This Live Cinema piece, is inspired in equal parts by childhood memories of the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 and by later rationalizations of space travel fantasies.

conference ideas

15. - 17.6.2012
Delay - Postponing - Countdown - Invisible Structures
to be asked:
Ursula Biemann, Joanna Griffin, Lisa Parks

distance
Klaus Mayr What are electromagnetic waves?
Mario Lorenz AMSAT-DL, Transmitting from Earth to Venus and back
Richard KriescheArt Sat 1991

remote control
Prof. Dr. Peter Vörsmann TU Braunschweig – space debris
Currently there are about 150 million artificial objects with diameters of one millimeter or more in Earth orbits. Even the smallest objects pose a threat to manned and unmanned space flight due to high relative velocities.
Seda Gürses Satellite Surveillance and Security Concepts
Thomas Mikl remote controlled helicopters

invisibilities
Klaus Lang Invisible Structure: Time, Perception and Composition
Transparency International (the Austrian anti-corruption office)
National Economy http://www.univie.ac.at/strv-vwl/vrauwl/ National Economy and Space research
Michael Bauer Data retention

workshops

Non-newtonian Liquids

No Tours – Enrique Tomas
noTours is a project by the collective Escoitar.org that allows editing a place with sounds. This means that you can attach sounds to a territtory and that later, when you go physically to that place, you can listen to them. The trick is using our noTours Android Application that detects your location (via GPS) and plays your audios exactly in the place where you decided. We adapt noTours using satellite positioning data to trigger sounds.

Construction of Antennas Want to listen to satellites?

Constructing Satellites with Children Eva Stern

performances

Sternenstaub (star dust) - Elise Schimana
21.6.2012
pulsating_imploding_exploding
and saved we are in the sun's particle wind
a multichannel live electronic solo piece

Bird Spotting - Reni Hofmüller -
Live Satellite Listening Performance