Space Art

• Liza Bear ★19__ Media Art Net
  • Send/Receive I, and Send/Receive II (1977)
  • Satellite TV: Birth of an Industry (1980)
• Oliver van den Berg ★1967 is fascinated by space, media and military technology. He builds rockets, cameras and a planetarium projector in laser-cut plywood, keeping a fretwork appeal to it.
  • Raketennamen (2004)
  • Sternenprojektor, birchwood, plywood (2005)
  • Star Projector II, steel, aluminium, automotive paint finish (2009)
• Ursula Biemann ★1955
  • Remote Sensing (2001) video essay, 53 MIN mapping the global sex trade (YouTube)
• BLIX (Robert Adrian X, Helmut Mark, Zelko Wiener, and others)
• Bogota Declaration (2009)
• Jens Brand ★1968 built a device, called the G-Player with which he claims to read the earth's surface like a record, a satellites trajectory being the needle defining the position. Outcome is mostly noise.
  • Gpod — GP4 (2006)
• Pierre Comte ★1927
  • Horus (1979)
  • Signature terre (1989)
• Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung/Dunja Zupancic & Dragan Zivadinov und Post Gravity Art
• Douglas Davis ★1933, interview on telepolis, Gallery
  • Seven Thoughts (1976)
  • The Last Nine Minutes, Live performance for international satellite telecast (1977)
• Joe Davis ★1953
  • Microvenus (1986)
• Alejo Duque/Andrés Burbano/Camilo Martínez/Gabriel Zea BereBere (2007)
• Olafur Eliasson ★1967
  • Your space embracer (2004)
• Peter Fend ★1950
  • Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation (1980)
• Sylvie Fleury ★1961
  • First Spaceship on Venus ()
  • Vitteaux (2007) – A crashed UFO
• Bill Fontana ★1947
  • Satellite Soundbridge Köln-San Francisco 1987 (mp3) (1987)
• Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
• Richard Grayson ★1958
  • Intelligence (2004 - ongoing) drawings of horoscopes
• Joanna Griffin
• Max Grüter ★1955
• Ingo Günther ★1957
  • K4(C3I) (1987) Satellite images projected on a block of marble
• Yolande Harris ★1975
  • Sun Run Sun: sonic navigations (2008)
• Martin Heckmann Satland (2006)
• Nelson Henricks
  • Satellite (2004)
• International Sputnik Day 2007
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle ★1961
  • Phantom Truck (2007) - A mock up of the alledged chemical weapons factories on trucks presented by Colin Powell to the UN security council
• Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
• Agnes Meyer-Brandis is mimicking scientific research: she interacts with the public when creating a meteor crater in space or practising movement in space-suits.
  • mpact, public Meteorit-Watching (2009)
  • Space Travelling for Beginners - a public moon walk workshop (2009)
• Myriel Milicevic: Neighbourhood Satellites (local sensing, not remote sensing)
• Aleksandra Mir ★1967
  • First woman on the moon (2001) a moon like surface at a beach to enact a moon landing with a female crew and specially designed wear.
  • Gravity (2006), a huge rocket build fom stuff found at a junk yard
• Trevor Paglen
  • Terminal Air
  • Active Military and Reconnaissance Satellites of the United States of America
• Nam-June Paik was pioneering in using satellites to broadcast a transatlantic TV-show featuring John Cage, Josef Beuys, Merce Cunningham and others.
• Olaf Nicolai
  • The Tears of St. Lawrence: An Appointment to Watch Falling Stars (2005) an invitation to watch a star shower – presenting the firmament like an art-event.
• Marko Peljhan Makrolab, and Arctic Perspective
• Sun Ra, Space is the Place
• RIXC, Riga especially Acoustic Space Lab (2001)
• Thomas Ruff Sternschnuppen
• Tom Sachs is rebuilding American icons from plywood. The Apollo moon landing spacecraft is ons such icon. Watch the video of the moon landing re-enactment quoting the original TV-footage of this historic event.
• Tom Van Sant ★1931
  • Reflections from Earth (1980)
• Björn Schülke builds satellite shaped sculptures
  • Space Observer (2010)
  • Planet Space Rover (2004)
  • Solar Kinetic Object #15 (2006)
  • Observer #2 (2003)
• Willoughby Sharp Send/Receive Satellite Network II,
• Roman Signer
• Keith Sonnier
  • Send/Receive Satellite Network New York City - San Francisco Bay (1977)
• Brian Springer, Media Art Net recorded then unencrypted raw footage of transmissions from reporters to the TV-stations to be cut and edited. The revealing scenes in the election campaign show how the politicians try to use the media to bring their message across without answering the question.
  • Feed (1992)
  • Spin (1995)
• Arthur Woods, Cosmic Dancer

See also GPS for locative media artworks.