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...]
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...]
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...]