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
Artists working with satellites
See Space Art.
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