Satellite Border Footprint

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
• /Snowcrash (D) /Ursel Quint & /Barry 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 mini-workshop by Max Neupert get the File:Excursion to Dortmund TV Tower.gpx to import this in Google Earth or view in Open Street Map.
• Some pictures of the walk to the Florian tower and of the presentations
• How can I Transmit via Satellite? - some thoughts on a question that appeard some times 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

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.

Representation from orbital perspective

• Power of Ten, Charles and Ray Eames Wikipedia. Other earth Zooms.
• GMU:Works#Bernhard Hopfengärtner: HELLO WORLD!
• Dead pixel in Google Earth, Helmut Smits
• Ley lines, Nazca lines crop circles
• www.diydrones.com Resources for DIY Drones (Autonomous Robotic Vehicles) which can carry scan devices (e.g. cameras)

Satellite dishes

• 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

• Heavens Above a homepage where you can find satellite passings in relation to your geocoordinates
• Nasa JTrack a satellite tracking tool by NASA
• Satellite tracking Realtime satellite tracking, with maps and further informations about selected satellites.
• www.satsignal.net Huge collection of information about satellites and signals. Codes, decoding, software, mapping. Some of the software is commercial.

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

Artists working with satellites

• Space Linkliste#Artists
• Aleksandra Mir, Work Gravity
• Agnes Meyer-Brandis
• Nam-June Paik
• Thomas Ruff Sternschnuppen
• Ingo Günther, Refugee Republic
• Peter Fend
• Brian Springer, Media Art Net
• Joanna Griffin
• Tom Sachs
• Olaf Nicolai
• Björn Schülke
• Arthur Woods, cosmic Dancer
• Richard Grayson
• Trevor Paglen
• Roman Signer
• Marko Peljhan Makrolab
• Liza Bear, Media Art Net
• Willoughby Sharp Send/Receive Satellite Network II, TP
• Keith Sonnier, vdb
• Douglas Davis, Media Art Net, Seven Thoughts
• Joe Davis
• Jens Brand
• Oliver van den Berg
• Olafur Eliasson, Your space embracer
• Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
• Myriel Milicevic: Neighbourhood Satellites (local sensing, not remote sensing)
• Nelson Henricks
• Sylvie Fleury
• Sun Ra, Space is the Place
• Bill Fontana sound Satellite Soundbridge Köln-San Francisco 87
• Yolande Harris sunrunsun
• Max Grüter
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Phantom Truck, 2007 - A mock up of the alledged chemical weapons factories on trucks presented by Colin Powell to the UN security council

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Ingo Günther talking about his work on satellite images (and globes)

Books, readers

• Material listing
• Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger, Florian Heilmeyer: TV Towers / Fernsehtürme: 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture 8.559 Meter Politik und Architektur 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, 9781859841815.
• Virilio, Paul. Big Optics (scribd link)
• Weibel, Peter (publisher): Ocean Earth: 1980 bis heute ISBN 3927789720