Satellite Border Footprint

Space to share information, links etc. for the Satellite/Border/Footprint Workshop by Lisa Parks at the HMKV, organized by Francis Hunger

Participants

• Lena Brüggemann (D)
• Büro für Unabwägbarkeiten (D) David Hahlbrock, Franziska Windisch, Anselm Bauer
• Francis Hunger, (D)
• Frank Hoppe (D)
• Elena Marcevska (UK/MAC)
• Gabriel Menotti (UK/BR)
• Max Neupert (D)
• Lisa Parks, (US) University of California, Santa Barbara
• SnowKrash (D) Ursel Quint & Barry L. Roshto
• Tatjana Vukelic (SER)

Workshop

• Home is Where you get a Signal A two hour sketch output by the “Büro für Unabwägbarkeiten” and Gabriel Menotti
• Mapping micro crash-course by Max Neupert. Get the File:Excursion to Dortmund TV Tower.gpx to import this in Google Earth or view in Open Street Map.
• Some pictures of the walk to the Florian tower and of the presentations
• How can I Transmit via Satellite? - some thoughts on a question that appeared during the workshop
• How to spot Iridium satellites with bare eyes - internet based weather and satellite prediction combined with three dimensional orientation in physical space
• Traces of satellite-use in the city - a walk through Dortmund Nordstadt. Elena Marcevska and Lena Brüggemann

Satellite information

• Space Is The Place A class by Max Neupert in the winter semester 2009
• Space linklist a list of space related links, artists, astronomy and satellite tracking
• Weather resources, forecasts, cloud satellite images and rain maps, not only for astronomy.
• GPS mapping websites, cartography and GPS artworks
• Suppliers#Electric and electronic parts consult this page if you want to buy electronics like GPS receivers/loggers
• lyngsat.com great resource about all satellites and their footprints
• satbeams.com
• Michael Paulkner Infographic: satellites and their owners
• vizworld collection of graphic visualizations about satellite technology
• Satellites: A user manual Beautiful infomercials by agency ThisIsRealArt. for Astra-SES.
• www.satsignal.net Huge collection of information about satellites and signals. Codes, decoding, software, mapping. Some of the software is commercial.

Representation from orbital perspective

• Power of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames Wikipedia. Other earth Zooms.
• GMU:Works#Bernhard Hopfengärtner: HELLO WORLD!
• Dead pixel in Google Earth, Helmut Smits
• Ley lines, Nazca lines crop circles
• www.diydrones.com Resources for DIY Drones (Autonomous Robotic Vehicles) which can carry scan devices (e.g. cameras)
• Grassroots Mapping, forms of not-so-remote sensing and low-tech mapmaking

Satellite dishes

• Satellite free-to-air DIY kit
• How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card
• The Max Headroom Incident (don't know where this should go)
• The Itty Bitty Radio Telescope a DIY Radio Telescope made of a satellite dish

Satellite Tracking

• Heavens Above a homepage where you can find satellite passings in relation to your geocoordinates
• Nasa JTrack a satellite tracking tool by NASA
• Satellite tracking Realtime satellite tracking, with maps and further informations about selected satellites.

Balloon Information

• 1337arts.com Project Ikarus – low cost near space remote technology
• University of Wyoming’s balloon trajectory website Predict your balloon flight in google earth related to your geo-coordinates
• telegraph.co.uk Article in the online edition of newspaper The Telegraph (UK): Teens capture images of space with 56 pounds camera and a balloon
• Hobbyspace.com Near Space exploring with balloons on hobbyspace.com – a resource for amateur space action
• Away 5 – Advanced Balloon Platform

Artists working with satellites

• Space linklist#Artists
• Aleksandra Mir has build a huge rocket build fom stuff found at a junk yard: Gravity, and ctreated a moon like surface at a beach to enact a moon landing with a female crew and specially designed wear First woman on the moon.
• Agnes Meyer-Brandis is mimicking scientific research: she interacts with the public when creating a meteor crater in space or practising movement in space-suits.
• Nam-June Paik was pioneering in using satellites to broadcast a transatlantic TV-show featuring John Cage, Josef Beuys, Merce Cunningham and others.
• Thomas Ruff Sternschnuppen
• Peter Fend
• Brian Springer, Media Art Net recorded then unencrypted raw footage of transmissions from reporters to the TV-stations to be cut and edited. The revealing scenes in the election campaign show how the politicians try to use the media to bring their message across without answering the question. A documentary: Spin
• Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
• Joanna Griffin
• Tom Sachs is rebuilding American icons from plywood. The Apollo moon landing spacecraft is ons such icon. Watch the video of the moon landing re-enactment quoting the original TV-footage of this historic event.
• Olaf Nicolai has been inviting the audience to watch stars presenting the firmament like an art-event.
• Björn Schülke
• Arthur Woods, cosmic Dancer
• Richard Grayson
• Trevor Paglen
• Roman Signer
• Marko Peljhan Makrolab
• Liza Bear, Media Art Net
• Willoughby Sharp Send/Receive Satellite Network II, TP
• Keith Sonnier, vdb
• Douglas Davis, Media Art Net, Seven Thoughts
• Joe Davis
• Jens Brand says he can read the earth's surface like a record, a satellites trajectory being the needle defining the position.
• Oliver van den Berg
• Olafur Eliasson, Your space embracer
• Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
• Myriel Milicevic: Neighbourhood Satellites (local sensing, not remote sensing)
• Nelson Henricks
• Sylvie Fleury
• Sun Ra, Space is the Place
• Bill Fontana sound Satellite Soundbridge Köln-San Francisco 87
• Yolande Harris sunrunsun
• Max Grüter
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Phantom Truck, 2007 - A mock up of the alledged chemical weapons factories on trucks presented by Colin Powell to the UN security council
• Ingo Günther, Refugee Republic
• Tom Van Sant
• BLIX (Robert Adrian X, Helmut Mark, Zelko Wiener, and others)
• Pierre Comte
• RIXC, Riga especially Acoustic Space Lab (2001)
• Ursula Biemann
• Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung/Dunja Zupancic & Dragan Zivadinov und Post Gravity Art
• International Sputnik Day 2007
• Alejo Duque/Andrés Burbano/Camilo Martínez/Gabriel Zea BereBere (2007)
• Bogota Declaration (2009)
• Christian Nold Paris Emotion Map (2008)
• Eva Maria Trischak 4816
• Milk Project (2004)
• Martin Heckmann Satland (2006)

Books, readers

• Material listing
• von Borries, Friedrich; Böttger, Matthias; Heilmeyer, Florian: TV Towers – 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture ISBN 3868590242
• Günther, Ingo: REPUBLIK.COM ISBN 3893229485
• McCray, W. Patrick: Keep Watching the Skies, ISBN 0691128545
• Paglen, Trevor: Blank Spots On The Map – The Dark Goegraphy Of The Pentagon's Secret World ISBN 9780525951018
• Paglen, Trevor: I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me - Emblems From The Pentagon's Black World ISBN 9781933633329
• Parks, Lisa: Cultures in Orbit – Satellites and the Televisual ISBN 978-0822334972
• Redfield, Peter: Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana ISBN 0520219856
• Virilio, Paul: Open Sky, Verso, 1997, ISBN 1859841813
• Virilio, Paul: Big Optics (scribd link)
• Weibel, Peter (publisher): Ocean Earth: 1980 bis heute ISBN 3927789720