[spectre] micro_salon: April 30th 8PM: ALMA Project. Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomenons [with Connie Mendoza]

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micro research salons on the last Thursday of each month (and
occasional other dates) for local and international researchers to
gather to discuss common research themes and endeavour.

Calendar:

April 30th 8PM: ALMA Project. Fata Morgana and Other Optical
Phenomenons [with Connie Mendoza]

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ALMA Project is a cartographic exercise within time travel, through
physics and through mental landscapes, investigating the notion of
time and the breach between Sci-Tech and an intimate experience of
time.

ALMA is the acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array, an observatory
under construction in the north of Chile, near my place of birth in
the Atacama Desert. Chuquicamata is a village where workers and
engineering technicians of the open pit copper mine lived in the
middle of the desert. ALMA Project. Fata Morgana and Other Optical
Phenomenons is the launch pad for this time travel.

Copper and technological progress are intimately connected
worldwide. In the Chilean context these connections have even more
impact on the recent political and economical history and the
psychological state of the population.

References:

ALMA Project: http://mendoza.zweibilder.net/english/future/alma/telescopio.html

ALMA Observatory (eso): http://www.almaobservatory.org/ chuquicamata
copper mine

(codelco):http://www.codelco.com/english/la_corporacion/fr_divisiones.html
 
Appropriate food and drinks will be served. Free entry. RSVP.

Details: 

xxxxx_micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl.
U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482. 

xxxxx_micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/xxxxx_micro_research.html