[Robotgroup] [ExI] ARTS: Space Camp

[Bryan Bishop]

On Saturday 26 July 2008, Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> I thought you all might enjoy the images and text re Space Camp.  See
> below!
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> July 25, 2008
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> Space Camp
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> 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
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> Image: Jean-Pierre Aube, Titan and beyond the infinite, 2007
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>  <http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/home.html#currentshow>
> http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/home.html#currentshow
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> Natasha
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> Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc>  Vita-More
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> BFA, MS, MPhil/PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium
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> Faculty of Technology, School of Computers, Communication and
> Electronics
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> University of Plymouth, UK


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