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

• Powers of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames wikipedia:Powers of ten. Other earth Zooms.
• GMU:Works#Bernhard Hopfengärtner: HELLO WORLD!
• Dead pixel in Google Earth, Helmut Smits
• wikipedia:Leylines, wikipedia:Nazca lines wikipedia: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

See Satellite tracking.

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

Artworks and artists

See Space Art for a list of artists who deal with satellites and/or outer space in their practice. A compilation of artists and literature about locative artworks is filed as GPS.

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