HEIDI NEILSON

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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...]

Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm: Library Book

Outernet Library Branch - Wave Farm: Library Book, 2016. 8.5 x 8.5 x 1 in., 200 pages, edition of 1 contained in a weatherproof case housed under the east seat of the Outernet Library Branch - Wave Farm structure. The book is the only physical document in this library branch and contains over 180 images of libraries, including: real libraries, fictional libraries, libraries … [Read more...]

Menu for Mars Supper Club

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...]

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