I lead a workshop for antenna building at Wave Farm on July 26, 2014. Instructions here as PDF: FM_Antenna_90.7 … [Read more...]
Transmitter Hunt
I lead a Transmitter Hunt during a Wave Farm Lodge event in 2015. We built directional antennas using retractable tape measures and hunted on resort grounds in the Catskills, using a Redbee transmitter. … [Read more...]
Go GOES Radiotelescope
Go GOES Radiotelescope, 2017. Satellite dish and support structures, electronics, software, portable viewport, chair Go GOES Radiotelescope is a portable station for receiving images and weather information from GOES-EAST, a NOAA geostationary spacecraft. By looking through the viewport of the radiotelescope, the viewer is aligned with the satellite—you are looking directly … [Read more...]
Collective-action Motion Study of Anik-E1
Collective-action Motion Study of Anik-E1, 2017 Animation (loop), ~ 700 hand-colored animation frames by over 100 participating artists Geostationary satellites orbit the earth at the same rate that the earth turns, so that from our point of view they remain in the same spot in the sky. The black and white frames of this animation are identical images which were … [Read more...]
Exhibition at SPACES: Ground Station – Cleveland, September 25 – January 12, 2018
Ground Station - Cleveland Heidi Neilson ON VIEW: September 25 - January 12, 2018 SPACES, 2900 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113 Heidi Neilson uses the ground station—a terrestrial radio station designed for extra-planetary radiocommunication with spacecraft—as a starting point for artistic research into outer space. She’s interested in how off-planet spaces are … [Read more...]