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SP Weather Station

SP Weather Station

Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, SP Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather data, hosts a Guest Lecture Series, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions. As an informal umbrella organization, SPWS invites participation from many other artists, groups, and weather enthusiasts, while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, collaboration, public projects Tagged With: nature, NYC, nyc-nature

Long Island City Sundial Field Guide

Long Island City Sundial Field Guide

Long Island City Sundial Field Guide, 2013. 5.83 in x 8.26 in x .28 in., 60-page softcover digital-offset printed book. The Long Island City Sundial is a neighborhood-wide sundial in Queens, New York, just across the East River from Manhattan. The prominent 201-meter Citicorp building's shadow can be tracked across the neighborhood and used to tell time throughout the day and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, books, public projects Tagged With: maps, nature, NYC, nyc-nature

Currents of Tremont

Currents of Tremont

Currents of Tremont, 2012. 1 min, 45 sec video. Bronx River Arts Center's neighborhood along Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, New York [view map], is interlaced by numerous traffic streams of different types: the elevated subway train, roadways and expressways, and the Bronx River. Using video and time-lapse photography, Currents of Tremont captures multiple views of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: video Tagged With: nature, NYC, nyc-nature

Manhattanhenge

Manhattanhenge

Manhattanhenge, 2009. Poster design, open edition. Design of a poster describing the phenomena of Manhattanhenge, where twice a year the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid, fully illuminating East-West cross streets for the last fifteen minutes of daylight. This poster was made as a commission for The Work Office, a mulitidisiciplinary art project by Katarina … [Read more...]

Forest & Stream

Forest & Stream

Forest & Stream, 2009. A collaboration with Nicholas Fraser, 38 site specific installations placed on October 25, 2009, 14th street in New York. For one day, color coded texts of powdered chalk describing various types of forest and water features were placed in the approximate location of the now urbanized sites. The texts, based on data from the Mannahatta Project, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: archive, collaboration, public projects Tagged With: maps, nature, NYC, nyc-nature

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  • 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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