Covered Skies

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

inofficial program/whish list
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

Salt Water Antenna Bruno Vianna (BR)
video documentation about a saltwater antenna installed at El Laboral, Spain, receiving satellite data

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

El naufragio de los hombres Charly Nijensohn (AR)
audio/video 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.

space debris animation, made by TU Braunschweig

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

further people, to be asked

El naufragio de los hombres - 7mo día, Directed by Charly Nijensohn in collaboration with Juan Pablo Ferlat & Teresa Pereda
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFupFH1Ndbk

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

16. - 17.6.2012
Delay - Postponing - Countdown - Invisible Structures
to be asked also:
Ursula Biemann, Joanna Griffin, Lisa Parks, Susanne Lummerding

distance
Klaus Mayr What are electromagnetic waves?
Mario Lorenz AMSAT-DL, Transmitting from Earth to Venus and back (tbc)
Richard Kriesche Art Sat 1991
Bird spotting - Satellite listening Performance Reni Hofmüller

remote control
Michael Bauer Data retention
Seda Gürses Satellite Surveillance and Security Concepts (video-recorded statement)
Thomas Mikl remote controlled helicopters
Ralo Mayer artist, space travel

invisibilities
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.
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

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