Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
I’ve been thinking about a number of residencies I’ve seen advertised that are connected with some kind of building regeneration / urban planning project.
This is one in Sheffield, UK at Persistence works studios:
“This opportunity will give the resident artist access to space, time and funding to focus on a particular line of enquiry and research […]
elsewhere, residencies |
Monday, March 27th, 2006
My beautiful blue studio.
elsewhere, studio |
Friday, March 24th, 2006
It happened. I found remote sensing in the Signal Processing room and Flavio told me all about how they process the images from Radarsat.
They’re not the first to receive the data. Its first processed into an image and then passed on to them to work out what everything is, how to interpret the image. Now […]
elsewhere, radarsat, map, interviews, landscape, University of British Columbia |
Friday, March 24th, 2006
Lisa Parks showed me a mapping of the area of former Yugoslavia which she’d developed. Before the NATO bombings, the media had used one satellite, EUTELSAT, but the attacks destroyed the broadcast infrastructure. Her map showed tracings, linking countless commercial interests with something like twenty satellites now involved in uploading and downloading media. Just a […]
elsewhere, map |
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Much has happened. I found remote sensing, read Victor’s thirty-one papers on signal protocols and have been able to mention to two engineers that my time is money.
elsewhere |
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Still trying to find an oven on campus to make the cookies with some of the fine art students. There’s one at international house, but I’d need to do a days training to get a permit, pay for the kitchen rental and for professional cleaning afterwards. The cookies need to be satellite shaped and then […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
Interviewed Rainer today about what happens to the numbers after they are downloaded from the satellite. It turns out that over the last three weeks they’ve been looking at a pulsing star. It radiates more light over a roughly eight hour period. Rainer and maybe one or two other people are the only ones to […]
elsewhere, MOST, wmap |
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
My publicity info went out last week. You make a webpage and send it out using Dadamail. It takes a long time to sort out and you’re never sure whether people’s email are set to open images and they’ll actually be able to see it. This is the link:
http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/dada_files/gnwres.html
There are inaccuracies however.
This is inaccurate:
“Vancouver is […]
elsewhere, radarsat |