HEIDI NEILSON

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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 10 independent civilian stations to do so. Visitors to the sculptural station sit within it and look through the “telescope” and see images of the Earth as they are being received from the satellite—from the seat, we effectively see ourselves through the satellite’s eyes. More about the project here.

View project website: heregoesradio.com
Here GOES Radiotelescope installation at Wave Farm. An 11-foot diameter satellite dish has a seat within a wooden structure beneath it. A seated person looks up at the back of the satellite dish, and are in line with the distant satellite. Seated viewers see a monitor with images being live-transmitted by the geostationary NOAA weather satellite, GOES-16.
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