Open Call
An Architectonic Technological Sublimity
Arts Letters & Numbers
Eligibility
Live Streamed discussion between Michael Benson and James Green
Number of Participants
500
Deadline
No deadline
Duration
September 09, 2021 - September 10, 2021
Meals
No meals
Public Programs
Courses, Critique, Discussion, Mentors, Panel, Publication, Readings, Seminars
Disciplines
Activists, Research, Scientists, Social Practice, Tech, Thinkers
Languages
English, Italian, Korean, Spanish
Program Description
In the last few decades, US Space Agency NASA has constructed an astonishingly vast, kinetic, architectonic structure, one spanning the entire Solar System. This ever-evolving edifice comprises recognizably architectural forms: the buildings of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California; NASA HQ in Washington and various mission control centers; a global network of giant dish antennae; and rocket assembly, testing and launching facilities. But these would be meaningless without another principal component: the intricate spacecraft it has sent vaulting to all the major worlds of our planetary system, and the football-field sized International Space Station. Some of these extraordinarily advanced interplanetary robots are no bigger than a grand piano, and the largest is a bit smaller than a city bus. A cat’s-cradle webwork of signals connects them to Earth, its chains of zeroes and ones slinging across the void and returning images and data.
