[ExI] ARTS: Space Camp

[Natasha Vita-More]

I thought you all might enjoy the images and text re Space Camp.  See below!

 

July 25, 2008 

Space Camp 

This summer in Philadelphia, weird science isn't limited to the Mütter
<http://www.muttermuseum.org>  Museum: the Wood Street
<http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/>  Gallery's exhibit "Out of This
<http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/home.html#currentshow>  World" currently
showcases artists who tinker with strange new ways to experience the cosmos.
Vera-Maria Glahn and Marcus Wendt's soothing interactive installation
Orbiter <http://www.veraglahn.de/orbiter.html>  lets viewers lie down on the
ground and look up at a video approximation of the night sky, limned with
faint concentric rings. By pointing their fingers at the ceiling,
participants create new "stars" that circulate and generate looping tones.
Jean-Pierre Aubé's  <http://www.kloud.org/en/titan/index.php> Titan and
beyond the infinite (2007) uses data recorded in 2005 by the Huy! gens probe
<http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm>  from one of Saturn's moons to
create  <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/> 2001-inspired slit-scan video
trip-outs; the show also includes a video version of his
<http://www.kloud.org/en/vlf/index.php> VLF.Natural Radio (2000-Ongoing)
project, which uses the sounds of naturally-produced electromagnetic
signals, a phenomenon increasingly blotted out by human-made
telecommunications. Geekier frequencies can be heard in Maria Antelman's taH
pagh taHbe (2006), a video composed of still images of NASA hanger interiors
set to a Klingon translation of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy (no
doubt using the preferred Klingon Language Institute
<http://www.kli.org/stuff/Hamlet.html>  version as her source.) Rounding out
the astronomical theme, Gail Wight's  <http://171.67.22.26/~gailw/> Blow Out
(2006) consists of forty-four photos of different smashed test tubes, white
constellation! s of glass shards against black backgrounds, each looking
like! unique, exploding galaxies. - Ed Halter

Image: Jean-Pierre Aube, Titan and beyond the infinite, 2007 

 <http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/home.html#currentshow>
http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/home.html#currentshow 

Natasha

 

Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc>  Vita-More

BFA, MS, MPhil/PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium

Faculty of Technology, School of Computers, Communication and Electronics

University of Plymouth, UK

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