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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 on GPS-cartography by Max Neupert. Get the File:Excursion to Dortmund TV Tower.gpx to import this in Google Earth or view in Open Street Map.
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
Satellites and Aviation - sensing around Dortmund Airport - Ursel Quint - Frank Hoppe

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 dish in Weimar

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

Artworks and artists

See Space Art for a list of artists who deal with satellites and/or outer space in their practice. A compilation of artists and literature about locative artworks is filed as GPS.

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