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Exhibition at SPACES: Ground Station – Cleveland, September 25 – January 12, 2018

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 experienced and understood while grounded here on Earth.

Three works:

Go GOES Radiotelescope, 2017
Satellite dish and support structures, electronics, software, portable viewport, chair

Sonic Planetarium, 2017
Sound installation with 9 speakers, cardboard, rivets, software, databases, website: sonicplanetarium.net

Collective-action Motion Study of Anik-E1, 2017
Animation (loop), ~ 700 hand-colored animation frames by over 100 participating artists



  

  • WORKS CHRONOLOGY
    • Sonic Planetarium: Satellite Pipes – 2018
    • Moon Arrow – 2018
    • Sonic Planetarium – 2017
    • Go GOES Radiotelescope – 2017
    • Collective-action Motion Study of Anik-E1 – 2017
    • Southern Florida Beachball Antenna Archive – 2017
    • Ground Station – 2014-2018
    • Beachball Antennas – 2016
    • Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm – 2016
    • Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm: Library Book – 2016
    • Menu for Mars Supper Club – 2014-2016
    • YOU ARE HERE – 2015
    • Conjuring the Northern Lights – 2014
    • Faxes from Space – 2014
    • L5 From Here – 2013-2017
    • SP Weather Station – 2007-2014
    • Long Island City Sundial Field Guide – 2013
    • Details from the Least Popular – 2013
    • ISS Road Trip – 2012
    • SLICED – 2012
    • Atlas Dream Sequence – 2012
    • Push for Luck Project Archive – 2012
    • Satellites – 2012
    • Space Junk Guide to the Hayden Planetarium – 2012
    • The Time Machine – 2012
    • Tranquility Base – 2012
    • Volumes with Flock – 2012
    • Stargazing by Microscope – 2011
    • Cloud Book Study – 2011
    • Fake Snow Collection – 2010
    • Orbital Debris Simulator – 2010
    • Manhattanhenge – 2009
    • Urban Forest on 14th Street – 2009
    • Forest & Stream – 2009
    • On Safari, 1976 – 2009
    • SP Potluck Project – 2009
    • Home Planetarium Survey – 2008
    • One Thousand Orbits – 2007
    • Uniform Paper – 2006
    • Backsides of Type – 2006
    • A Block of Alleys – 2005
    • Roofs print series – 2004
    • Atlas of Punctuation – 2004
    • Typography of the Period – 2003
    • Nest Variations – 2003
    • Maps 1997-2001
    • Humans Labeled – 1999
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