Category: Satellite Communication

[telephonePiece] by Antoinette Suiter

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[telephonePiece] :: :: 1 (312) 273-5769

Antoinette Suiter has installed [telephonePiece] as part of her residency in Uss Gallery’s Astra 5 Satellite Space.

The [telephonePiece] installation contains a Raspberry Pi running a phone tree application. The application uses Uss Gallery’s telephone landline. Special thanks to Amanda Yamasaki for coding assistance.

[telephonePiece] can be accessed by calling 1 (312) 273-5769 from anywhere in the world, free of charge, from any app or device with a touchtone. This includes WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger– to list two.

The work is included in Antoinette’s  solo show, Hiraeth at ArtHelix/SHIM in New York City August 6th – August 19th. The Astra 5 Satellite Space will be manned during the length of the Hiraeth exhibit. For more information go to Facebook Event Page for the show. Live video feed during gallery hours.

installation 2

Live video stream.

 

 

Mail/Postal Art Call for “Astra 5A Memorial Exhibit: Drifting Satellites/Lost Signals”

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Open Call to all artists for postal art about missed communications, misunderstandings, lost letters, and garbled messages.

“Astra 5A Memorial Exhibit: Drifting Satellites/Lost Signals”
Medium: Any, Free
Size: Any/Free
All work will be exhibited, photographed and cataloged.
Deadline: December 31, 2016

Send your work to:
Astra5A c/o Hobo 23 (Gregory Fitzsimmons)
1620 N Richmond Street
Chicago IL 60647 USA

All work will be exhibited at Uss Gallery in Chicago and cataloged on the gallery’s website.

 

Asta5A (Sirius 2) is a damaged and failed communications satellite, which experienced a technical anomaly leading to the end of the spacecraft’s mission in January of 2009. Astra5A continues its asynchronous travels around the earth, but now in a graveyard orbit, filled with messages that cannot be sent or retrieved.

http://www.space.com/6346-failed-telecommunications-satellite-drifts-control.html

http://www.ussgallery.com/

 

Satellite Space Astra 5 and Breakaway Space Astra 5A

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Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects has two new mini-spaces designed by by Chris J. Staats, Satellite Space Astra 5 and Breakaway Space Astra 5A. Both spaces are named after the failed Astra 5A commercial telecommunications satellite, currently drifting in an uncontrolled orbit around the earth.

Breakaway Space Astra 5A is now open and accepting work. This is an open-curated space and anyone is allowed to install work, until the Astra 5A falls to earth. The Breakaway Space is located in the backyard at 1620 North Richmond Street in the Humboldt Park Neighborhood of Chicago. There is no need to contact Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects to install work. But if you would like to text or call, before or after installation, contact Gregory Fitzsimmons at 312-508-2591.

Satellite Space Astra 5 will be open beginning in the winter of 2016 for 6-month artist residencies. Artists in-residence will use the space for installations and programming, with support from Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects.