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E-MERLIN

This video mas made during a residency at Cornerhouse, Manchester, in november 2003. It was part of the Microgravity Interdisciplary Research program (MIR) and under the invitation of The Arts Catalyst. I was invited to present somme videos filmed at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, Star City, Russia. Including the zero-gravity training flight.

During the period, I visited the Jodrell Bank Observatory with the help of David Osbadelston from Cornerhouse and Ian Morrison from the University of Manchester. We also invited artist and radioastronomer Gavin Starks, who used to work at Jodrell Bank, to make interviews about the  e-merlin project. I finally edited this video as part of my "Ground Control" project during my ex-stream residency at Hull Time Based Arts. The film presents the fiber network of the e-MERLIN telescope array.

"The e-MERLIN telescope array is a unique astronomical facility which will provide radio imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry with 10-150 milliarcsecond resolution and microJansky sensitivity at centimetre wavelengths.  The fundamental infrastructure of six radio telescopes distributed across England has been enhanced by the installation of a dedicated 210 Gb/s optical fibre network and new receivers; a powerful new correlator and new telescope electronics and will be commissioned during 2008.

High resolution radio observations allow us to address some of the most important astrophysical themes identified in the STFC Science Roadmap and other international analyses of science priorities such as ASTRONET. In general, centimetre-wavelength observations give an unparalleled view of the most obscured parts of star-forming regions and galaxies as well as astrophysical phenomena which can only be easily detected in the radio band. The resolution of e-MERLIN is well matched to that of ALMA, JWST and ground-based adaptive optics telescopes.  Crucially, e-MERLIN is the only radio instrument which can resolve and image kiloparsec-scale starforming regions in distant galaxies, ~10 AU stellar disks and jets in our Galaxy and sub-arcsecond gravitational lenses at centimetre wavelengths."

http://www.merlin.ac.uk/e-merlin/

photos by Gavin Starks : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgen/sets/110818/

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Ce film a été réalisé durant une résidence à Cornerhouse, Manchester, en novembre 2003. C'était dans le cadre du programme Microgravity Interdisciplary Research (MIR) et à l'invitation de The Arts Catalyst. J'étais invité à présenter des vidéos filmées au Centre d'Entraînement des Cosmonautes Youri Gagarine, Cité des Etoiles, Russie. Ce qui inclut un vol d'entraînement à l'apesanteur.

Durant la période, j'ai visité l'Observatoire de Jodrell Bank, avec l'aide de David Osbadelston de Cornerhouse et de Ian Morrison de l'Université de Manchester. Nous avons également invité l'artiste et radioastronome Gavin Starks. Gavin avait travaillé dans le passé à Jodrell Bank et nous a aidé à réaliser des interviews sur le projet e-merlin. J'ai finalement monté la vidéo en tant que partie de mon projet "Ground Control" réalisé durant ma résidence ex-stream à Hull Time Based Arts. Le film présente le réseau fibre optique du système d'observation radioastronomique e-MERLIN.

http://www.merlin.ac.uk/e-merlin/

photos de Gavin Starks : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgen/sets/110818/

Open Sky

Ce film a été réalisé en 2003 sur l'initiative Acoustic Space Lab pour la Maison Européenne de la Photographie de Paris et son Festival Art Outsiders. Il aborde l'idée de conversion et inclut le travail sur le radiotelescope RT32 en Lettonie et le projet Makrolab. Il faisait partie d'une installation plus large qui incluait le projet Radio-Astronomy de Radioqualia et la video du RIXC.
En 2004, Makrolab et Radio-Astronomy ont reçu le prix UNESCO Digital Arts comme dauphins du principal prix décerné aux Indiens du Sarai Media Lab.
L'installation "Open Sky" a reçu le Prix Leonardo Art-Outsiders Nouveaux Horizons 2003. Liser l'annonce du prix en anglais et clicker sur la photo pour voir la vidéo.
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This film was made in 2003 on the Acoustic Space Lab initiative for the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and its Festivval Art Outsiders. It deals with conversion idea and includes the RT32 radiotelescope in Latvia and the Makrolab project. As part of a larger installation including Radio-Astronomy project by Radioqualia and RIXC video.
In 2004, Makrolab and Radio-Astronomy were awarded UNESCO Digital Arts behind main prize given to Indian Sarai Media Lab.
The "Open Sky" installation received the Leonardo Art-Outsiders New Horizons Award 2003. Read the Leonardo Announcement and click on picture to see the video.

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Leonardo/ISAST News announcement

Prix Leonardo - @rt Outsiders / Nouveaux Horizons 2003
awarded to Ewen Chardronnet and art collective on OPEN SKY project

Leonardo/ISAST and the Paris based @rt Outsiders Festival are pleased to announce that the "Prix Leonardo - @rt Outsiders / Nouveaux Horizons 2003" has been awarded to Ewen Chardronnet and associated arts collective for the work OPEN SKY.
The jury particularly noted the innovation of the work of the Acoustic Space Lab network and the art groups federated around the OPEN SKY project : Rasa Smite, Martins Ratniks, Raitis Smits, Radioqualia and Makrolab.

OPEN SKY is an installation set by Ewen Chardronnet on the conversion of the soviet-era radiotelescope RT32 of Irbene in Latvia in the context of the on-going research projects of the Acoustic Space Lab collective. The RT32 is a 32 meters former espionage antenna converted to radioastronomy and fondamental science. Since 2001, artists, radio-amateurs and scientists work together to explore the tactical and artistic possibilities of the dish.
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/

The jury also awarded a special mention to the installation" FILE /AIR, The Ambiguity of Limits" by Kitsou Dubois and Eric Duranteau .The work translates documentation of the work of Kitsou Dubois in zero gravity parabolic flight in the context of an installation with powerful poetic and sensory impact.

The Jury consisted of : Roger Malina (Astronomer and President of the Paris based Association Leonardo ), Frank Popper (Professeur Emeritus - Université de Paris 8), Alex Adriaansens (Directeur of V2 in Rotterdam), Isabelle Rieusset Lemarié (Maître de Conférence in sciences Information science at the IUFM of Versailles), Hervé Michaud (Conservateur at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Michel Jaffrennou (Author).
The Prize was awarded to one of the art works exhibited at the European Museum of Photography, Paris in the context of the @rt Outsiders Festival dedicated this year to the topic of SPACE ART. Roger Malina, Henry Chapier (Président of @rt Outsiders Festival ), Annick Bureaud (Director of Leonardo Olats) et Jean-Luc Soret (Artistic Director of the@rt Outsiders festival ) made the award which includes a 1000 _ prize ; in addition the winner has been invited to publish his work in the Journal Leonardo (MIT Press) and present his work publically to the Leonardo Networks.
The purpose of the Leonardo New Horizon awards is to recognise new types of emerging work at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology and to make this work known to a broader audience

The Leonardo Prizes and this Prix "Leonardo - @rt Outsiders / Nouveaux Horizons 2003" are co sponsored by the Art Department and par le Center for Technoculture, University of California, Davis, USA. Leonardo Prizes are awarded by the Leonardo Prize and Awards Committee chaired by Professor Lynn Hershman of the University of California, Davis.
Press Contacts
@rtOutsiders Festival: Yannick le Guillanton - Tel : 01 44 78 75 20 eMail : le.guillanton@art-outsiders.com
Leonardo/OLATS : Annick Bureaud, @nunc.org

Leonardo/ISAST : Melinda Klayman, @
Further information on the Leonardo Prize and Awards program can be found at http://www.leonardo.info

Further information on the @rt Outsiders Space Art Exhibition and Conference can be found at http://www.olats.org

http://www.art-outsiders.com/fr2_expo.html

Signal Sever @ Nuit Blanche Paris 2004

Cette vidéo est un montage de la caméra live sur scène (seulement l'image) utilisée pendant la retransmission satellite sur Atlantic Bird 3 pour le Festival Art+Communication à Riga et toute l'Europe.

Nous avions commandé un camion satellite et transmis pendant plus d'une demi heure à l'introduction du concert. Cette vidéo a été prise du public durant la performance de 10h Signal Sever! à la Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris, durant l'événement Cité Sonic de la Nuit Blanche 2004. Signal Sever Transignal est le système d'interception et l'unité de traitement sonore et visuel conceptualisés par Projekt Atol - Pact Systems (Slovénie) pour Signal Sever! Transignal qui cartographie le spectre électromagnétique, traite et transforme les signaux pour les réexpédier dans l'éther selon différentes formes et directions. Les spectres HF, VHF, UHF, bande-L, bande-C et bande-Ku sont analysés et traités. Les satellites sont suivis et les communications en mer, dans l'air et au sol sont cartographiés. En addition pour la version 4, une unité radar cartographie le trafic maritime et aérien.
Cette vidéo a été précedemment posté sur le site http://www.revusa.net
Pour plus d'information à propos de Signal Sever! http://www.rx-tx.org

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Signal Sever! performance during the Nuit Blanche Paris 2004 (see Signal Sever @ Nuit Blanche 1).
This is an edit of the live camera on stage, used (only the image) for the Atlantic Bird 3 satellite transmission of the performance we did for Art+Communication Festival in Riga and all over Europe.
We booked a satellite van and transmitted more than 1/2 hour the introduction of the concert.

Signal Sever! is the sensor array and sound and video processing unit conceptualized by Projekt Atol - Pact Systems which maps the electromagnetic spectrum, processes, transforms it and sends it back into the ether in many different directions and forms. HF, VHF, UHF, L-band, C-band and Ku-band spectrums are analysed and processed. Satellites are tracked, ground, air and maritime communications and traffic mapped. http://rx-tx.org

During the period of December 15th 2003 - December 15th 2004, the RIXC, center for new media culture of Riga, together with its' partners (6 co-organisers) organised a "Trans-Cultural Mapping" series of events-in-process throughout the Europe, including its' final presentation during the "Art+Communication: celebrating European Enlargement" in Latvia.

Innovative strategies of collaborative cartography, mapping/positioning technologies (GPS) and mobile networking were used as tools to discover and highlight new dimensions in European cultural map, which has to be draw anew due to the enlargement process of the European Union.

see http://e-ngo.org
and http://www.rixc.lv

Cette vidéo a été prise du public.

Pour plus d'information à propos de Signal Sever! http://www.rx-tx.org

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So, this one is a video taken from the crowd.

For more infos about Signal Sever!, check http://www.rx-tx.org