http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:31:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is my second interview with an artist who has walked into a space institute, asserting their right to an alternative perspective. This is the moon over Edgware Road. These artists are pioneers. When you go into a space institute the doors of possibilities open up. Its a magical world where ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=157 Today I had a conversation with Biswajit Paul at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. He was one of the original proposers of Astrosat at a TIFR meeting in Bombay ten years ago. He was deeply involved in building instruments then in Bombay till 2006 and then moved to software development ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=156 On December 4th 2009 I recorded an interview with Ewen Chardronnet. I'd heard that he'd been to space places in Russia. I want to interview people, artists who I think have pioneered, have gone into space agencies as sort of the first artists. I want to find out what their ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=155 On Monday there was a lecture at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore by William D. Phillips, Nobel Laureate called "Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe". It was the Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture, with a huge crowd, a packed auditorium. Why I'm writing about it is that ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=154 At the Solar Eclipse the skies belong to the people again and that's why I had to go there, to see how I could make my own connection with the Solar System and how other people did too. Hinduism contains an ancient science of eclipses that now manifest in rituals: not ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=153 I went back to the Mullard Space Science Lab one year after doing the Satellite Stories event there. I wanted to find out what people remembered from it and if anything had changed. I'd thought that the sunset to darkness walk round the grounds with the scientists and engineers telling ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=152 Am looking back through books. One page is about the symposium at NIAS ages ago. I had been trying to find the presentation that Shiv Visvanathan gave and I think I've found it. It was wonderful, about the imagination of science and the imagination of democracy. Here in England, its ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=151 I haven't been here for a very long time. Its nice to write my password and go through the gate. I feel like I've been staying in somebody else's house for a while. Today and yesterday felt more familiar. We built the geostationary orbit and making things is like a ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=150 This is about visiting the Indian Deep Space Network this week. The huge white dishes follow the moon every day, East to West. While we were there, a movie was streaming down, live, of the surface of the moon. It took me a while to realise that it was live. ... http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=149 Kritha Pulha Pulsya Atri Angirasu Vasista (Arundhati) Maricha http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/?p=148