76
edits
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
(24 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[File:Snowkrash im Fluegel mit USB Ventilatoren.jpg|695px]] | |||
== About == | == About == | ||
SnowKrash ([[Satellite Border Footprint/Ursel Quint|Ursel Quint]] & [[Satellite Border Footprint/Barry L. Roshto|Barry L. Roshto]]) is a Media Art Duo working together since June 2009.<br /> | |||
They have produced five Audio-Visual performances, five installations and ten films. * [http://www.snowkrash.org Snowkrash] | |||
[[File:Sniffing at the Florian.jpg|thumb|EMF sniffing atop the Florian Radio Tower - Photo by Frank Hoppe]] | |||
== Why we were there == | |||
We are constantly looking for new ''Sound Sources'', upon reading the call for the workshop, we thought that there must certainly be some interesting sound to be collected from the satellite infrastructure. | |||
And, indeed there we some moments in which it was profitable. | |||
Funkturm Florian electromagnetic field recording <flashmp3 id="Funkturm EMF original.mp3">Funkturm EMF original.mp3</flashmp3> | |||
<br /> | |||
<br clear="all"/> | |||
== Dish Fishing == | |||
=== GERMAN - Feldarbeit === | |||
Im Rahmen des Workshops haben wir uns entschlossen, einige ausgewählte Dortmunder Straßen daraufhin zu untersuchen, ob und wie viele Satellitenschüsseln sich an Wänden und Dächern der Häuser befinden. Unsere Dokumentation besteht aus mehreren Elementen: Wir haben die Satellitenschüsseln in einem vorher abgesteckten Karrée der Dortmunder Nordstadt fotografiert, gezählt und kartographisch eingeordnet. Das Ergebnis lässt sich als Layer bei Google Earth oder Google Maps anschauen. | |||
In ihrer Eigenschaft als komplexitätsreduzierende Zeichen sind die Empfangsschüsseln nicht nur Bestandteile des Systems „Satelliten“, sondern gehören auch in den Bereich der Gentrifizierung, eine soziologische Komponente des Städtebaus. Warum sollte man sie nicht ebenso als optisches Phänomen, `fast´ natürlicher Bestandteil der urbanen Fauna, betrachten? Einige unserer Fotos legen dies durchaus nahe... | |||
=== ENGLISH - Field Work === | |||
As practical part of the workshop, we chose to do some „Field Work“ in a section of northern Dortmund, searching roofs and façades for satellite dishes. We counted, photographed and filmed all of the dishes in the courtyards of Uhlandstrasse 35 – 43 and a stretch of Mallinckrodtstrasse from 165 to 221. In the Schuetzenstrasse we made two other photos, but this street was not comprehensively catalogued as were the first two areas. Another “control” image was made of an area in which almost identical buildings, built by the same building company reveal no visible evidence of satellite dishes. Using the logged GPS tracking coordinates of our excursion, we made a layer in which the images can be viewed in Google Earth or Google Maps. | |||
In their capacity as “complexity-reducing-Signifiers” (see Statement to the workshop below), the satellite dishes are not only a part of the system “satellite”, but are also to be considered in the realm of gentrification, a sociological component of urban development. But, why should we not consider them simply as optical phenomena, an “almost” natural element of the urban fauna. Some of our photos do indeed reveal a kind of organic organisation... | |||
* [[File:GPS-track Dortmund.gpx]] | * [[File:GPS-track Dortmund.gpx]] | ||
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Roshtobl/traces/840611 Raw Track in Open Street Maps] | |||
* [[File:Snowkrash_Dish_Fishing_Dortmund_Images_4_Google.doc]] | |||
* [[File:Snowkrash_Dish_Fishing_Dortmund_Images_4_Google.pdf]] | |||
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=https:%2F%2Fspreadsheets.google.com%2Fpub%3Fkey%3D0AhwdNCFkQwNmdDlqQTU0VWJoNDNYUUU2OVBqaUJQaWc%26output%3Dtxt%26gid%3D0%26range%3Dkml_output%26time1%3D4045923 Dish Fishing Images in Google Maps/Earth] | |||
[[File:Grey_Dishes.jpg]] | |||
<br clear="all" /> | <br clear="all" /> | ||
Line 69: | Line 93: | ||
We will use films and photos from an excursion through northern Dortmund made during the workshop. These images are a documentation of the density and position of satellite dishes found in the area. Since these dishes direct attention to their signified satellites in space, we will present them in our video project as agents of transcendence, contrasting the first two parts which deal with the past and present. In this context we will also include sights and sounds of satellite dishes from other cities in the region. | We will use films and photos from an excursion through northern Dortmund made during the workshop. These images are a documentation of the density and position of satellite dishes found in the area. Since these dishes direct attention to their signified satellites in space, we will present them in our video project as agents of transcendence, contrasting the first two parts which deal with the past and present. In this context we will also include sights and sounds of satellite dishes from other cities in the region. | ||
[[Category:Satellite]] | |||
[[Category:Satellite]] | |||
[[Category:Satellite]] | |||
[[Category:Satellite]] | [[Category:Satellite]] |
edits