How will the conditions on Mars affect the menu? To augment government and private space programs, The Menu for Mars Supper Club researches and taste-tests a menu for dinner tables en route to, and on, the Red Planet. The Menu for Mars Supper Club, co-organized by Heidi Neilson and Douglas Paulson, meets at a different restaurant in NYC on the first Thursday of each month. In … [Read more...]
L5 From Here
L5, or Lagrange point 5, is an area in the moon’s orbit around earth where space colonies are often planned to take place. L5 is a point of relative stasis—a balancing point between the gravity of the earth and the gravity of the moon (there are five such points in any system with one body orbiting another). Little energy is required to stay in orbital position at L5, … [Read more...]
YOU ARE HERE
YOU ARE HERE, 2015. 7.5 x 7.5 x 1.75 in. Digital offset printed, 500 pages. YOU ARE HERE contains transmissions received from weather satellites—NOAA 15, 18 & 19—while I was an artist-in-residence at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, in October and November of 2014. I received the transmissions using a radio USB dongle, a … [Read more...]
Faxes from Space
Faxes from Space, 2014. 7.5 x 7.6 x .75 in. Digital offset printed, 200 pages. Faxes from Space contains research and documentation surrounding the build of a quadrifilar helicoidal antenna at Elsewhere, a living museum in a former thrift store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The antenna was used to receive transmissions from orbiting NOAA satellites, which were decoded to … [Read more...]
Space Transmissions Playlist
Space Transmissions is a radio program containing segments which I've divided into two categories: transmissions from spacecraft directly, and transmissions which are bounced off of things in space, so echoes of ourselves. The audio clips presented here are historic recordings, some I’ve recorded myself, and some related art pieces. I produced this while a resident of Wave … [Read more...]