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...]
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...]