[Nettime-bold] acoustic.space.lab.updated

[Derek Holzer <derek@x-i.nu>]

ACOUSTIC.SPACE.LAB
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http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab

Acoustic.Space.Lab is a networked, communications-art project exploring radio 
waves, satellite transmissions and the exploration of the atmosphere and of 
outer space. The core of the project is a large archive of audio, video, and 
radioastronomy data gathered at a Soviet-era 32m dish antenna in Latvia in the 
Fall of 2001. Various artists have been invited to work with, reinterpret, and 
remix this archive to create new projects which expand the network and invite 
artistic dialog.

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March Update ::: Featuring new projects by :::

Johannes Heldén ::: Gunnar E
reMI ::: Klijstre 
reMI ::: Nejris
formatt ::: llab  
formatt ::: s_l
Ward Weis ::: Lost Connections
Derek Holzer ::: snake/s tail 2002
Locomotive ::: Horizon Scanned
Ambient TV ::: Matrix ASL
Mr. Snow/L'audible ::: Firmament
Worldtune ::: Interactive Sound Processing
SemiConductor ::: Domestic EMI 
STANZA ::: 20022002 


http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab
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Next Update: May 15 2002
Deadline for Submissions: May 1 2002
Contact derek@x-i.nu for more information

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>From August 4-12, 2001, twenty five media artists and activists from three 
different continents gathered together in the forests of western Latvia at the 
site of a Soviet-era 32meter dish antenna. Formerly used to spy on satellite 
transmissions between Europe and North America by the KGB, the antenna was 
abandoned and nearly destroyed when the Russians departed in 1994. The dish is 
currently under repair for civilan use as one of the top 5 most precise 
radiotelescopes in the world. Over the days of the symposium, Acoustic Space 
Lab participants used the dish in three main ways:

1) The dish was explored in an acoustic fashion. It's groans, buzzes and sirens 
were recorded, and the dish itself was used as a massive parabolic microphone 
to scan the surrounding environment. 

2) The dish was used in its 'original' fashion. Satellites from the INMARSAT 
network were located and snooped on. Analog mobile phones, ship to shore 
communications, air traffic control signals and data packet transmissions were 
monitored and recorded. 

3) The dish was used in its 'retrofitted' fashion. Jupiter, Venus, and (most 
sucessfully) the Sun were located and scanned using precise radioastronomy 
equipment operating in the 11 GHz range.

The Acoustic.Space.Lab was organized by the RIXC media lab in Riga, Latvia, 
with support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the Latvian Cultural Capital 
Funds, the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (LV), A Tehnolgijas 
(LV), the V2 Center for Unstable Media (NL), Kunstradio/Radio ORF (AT) and the 
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. 

Special recognition goes to Marko Peljhan + Project Atol and Dmitry Bezrukov 
for technical support, and to Rasa & Raitis Smits for their organizational 
efforts.

http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab
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