Far Sighted is an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist and science enthusiast, Heidi Neilson. Neilson has a nuanced way of investigating our relationship with satellites through her art practice. The conceptually-driven artworks pull the viewer into the world of satellites with intelligence, beauty and understated humor. Far Sighted shows us satellites as compelling machines … [Read more...]
SUVI SUNS Pratt Institute Foundation Lab Art+Science Visiting Artist Exhibition
HEIDI NEILSON: SUVI SUNS Foundation Lab Art+Science Visiting Artist Exhibition March 9 - May 9, 2023 Heidi Neilson's window installation and new riso edition SUVI SUNS launches in the Foundations Lab, 401 Main Building. This exhibition is the culmination of Heidi's workshop and talk as Lab visiting artist in Fall 2022. Join us to celebrate, and take home a beautiful print … [Read more...]
Here GOES Radiotelescope
Here GOES Radiotelescope, 2020. Heidi Neilson & Harry Dove-Robinson. Satellite dish with sculptural seating, electronics, software. On long-term view at Wave Farm, Acra NY. Here GOES Radiotelescope is an artist-run DIY ground station receiving the satellite GOES-16's faint, data-dense GRB transmission, and is one of only about 15 independent civilian stations to do so. … [Read more...]
SUVI SUNS
SUVI SUNS, 2022-2023. Window installation, Foundations Lab, Pratt Institute, 26 digital prints of 41 suns installed in 8 window bays. This installation is a part of Heidi Neilson - Art + Science Visting Artist Pratt Institute Foundations Lab, 2022-2023, including: a talk, DIY Art-based Earth Observations (18 October 2022), a workshop, Seeing through a satellite’s eyes: … [Read more...]
Remote Magnetometer – installation details
Remote Magnetometer is a quasi-replica of an actual magnetometer scientific instrument on the NOAA-NASA geostationary weather satellite GOES-16. Remote Magnetometer is in a sense paired with the actual magnetometer instrument in near-real time, expressing here on earth the data collected by the satellite instrument in orbit. Scientific instruments such as the magnetometer on … [Read more...]