[spectre] acoustic.space.lab update

[Derek Holzer]

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

Acoustic.Space.Lab is a networked, communications-art project exploring r=
adio=20
waves, satellite transmissions and the exploration of the atmosphere and =
of=20
outer space. The core of the project is a large archive of audio, video, =
and=20
radioastronomy data gathered at a Soviet-era 32m dish antenna in Latvia i=
n the=20
Fall of 2001. Various artists have been invited to work with, reinterpret=
, and=20
remix this archive to create new projects which expand the network and in=
vite=20
artistic dialog.

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

Johannes Held=E9n ::: Gunnar E
reMI ::: Klijstre=20
reMI ::: Nejris
formatt ::: llab =20
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=20
STANZA ::: 20022002=20


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 thre=
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different continents gathered together in the forests of western Latvia a=
t the=20
site of a Soviet-era 32meter dish antenna. Formerly used to spy on satell=
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transmissions between Europe and North America by the KGB, the antenna wa=
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abandoned and nearly destroyed when the Russians departed in 1994. The di=
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currently under repair for civilan use as one of the top 5 most precise=20
radiotelescopes in the world. Over the days of the symposium, Acoustic Sp=
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Lab participants used the dish in three main ways:

1) The dish was explored in an acoustic fashion. It's groans, buzzes and =
sirens=20
were recorded, and the dish itself was used as a massive parabolic microp=
hone=20
to scan the surrounding environment.=20

2) The dish was used in its 'original' fashion. Satellites from the INMAR=
SAT=20
network were located and snooped on. Analog mobile phones, ship to shore=20
communications, air traffic control signals and data packet transmissions=
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monitored and recorded.=20

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

The Acoustic.Space.Lab was organized by the RIXC media lab in Riga, Latvi=
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with support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the Latvian Cultural Ca=
pital=20
Funds, the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (LV), A Tehnolg=
ijas=20
(LV), the V2 Center for Unstable Media (NL), Kunstradio/Radio ORF (AT) an=
d the=20
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.=20

Special recognition goes to Marko Peljhan + Project Atol and Dmitry Bezru=
kov=20
for technical support, and to Rasa & Raitis Smits for their organizationa=
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efforts.

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