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...]
Sonic Planetarium
Sonic Planetarium, 2017-present. Sound installation, 9 channels. Sonic Planetarium is an audio model of the stuff in earth’s orbit, in real time. Sound from transmissions representing individual satellites are heard as the actual objects pass far overhead, as if we can listen into space. Each Sonic Planetarium installation is site-specific, adapting to the particularities of … [Read more...]
Beachball Antennas
Beachball Antennas, 2016. Four designs based on 3 antenna structures, using beachballs, vinyl, coax cable, copper foil, and software-defined radio. I created a series of antennas in the form of beachballs for temporary installation on the beaches of Southern Florida. The antennas were a site-specific response to the environment and conditions in and around Miami, and were used … [Read more...]
Southern Florida Beachball Antenna Archive
Southern Florida Beachball Antenna Archive, 2017, 8.25 x 10.75 inches, 60 pages, digital offset printed, saddle-stitch, softcover The images contained in this archive are a selection of those received as transmissions from orbiting weather satellites using beachball antennas on Southern Florida Beaches in 2015 and 2016. Read more on the Beachball Antennas project page. … [Read more...]
Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm
Outernet Library Branch - Wave Farm is a receiving station for Outernet data transmissions installed on the grounds of Wave Farm, in Acra, New York, June 2016 to June 2018. Spring 2018: An Unofficial History of the Outernet So Far [here as PDF] brochure publication to accompany the installation. The Outernet (https://outernet.is/), an expanding library collection of data … [Read more...]