[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Reception and Seminar on Monday, November 13 with newest SSL artist-in-residence Joanna Griffin

[Leonardo/ISAST]

To: Leonardo Network
From: Roger Malina

We are pleased to announce that Joanna Griffin is the new 
artist-in-residence at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. The 
residency is co-sponsored by Leonardo.

Previous artists-in-residence in this program were Rejane Spitz, 
Liliane Lijn and Semiconductor.

For more information on the residencies and the artists-in-residence 
program at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab see: 
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/arts/news.html

Joanna Griffin will be giving a talk on November 13 2006, 2:00-4:00pm. 
Joanna will share some samples of her work and talk about what she's 
working on at the Lab. Please join us for refreshments followed by 
Joanna's presentation.

Time: Monday, November 13, 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: Addition conference room

The UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab is located at 7 Gauss Way, 
Berkeley, CA. For more information and driving directions, visit the 
SSL website: http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/about/visiting.php


Artist's Statement - from Joanna:

I'm interested in the orbital environment, our remoteness from it, its 
invisibility and that access to it is largely determined by 
scientific, research, government or military institutions. One of my 
lines of enquiry has been to investigate ground-based facilities that 
have a close connection with spacecraft that orbit the planet, so my 
interest in being here is primarily in the connection of people to 
satellites. It's great to have the opportunity to work alongside 
people with a direct connection to objects, exploration and research 
in the orbital environment. I'm here to find out more about about the 
technology but also the narratives of satellites: the stories of their 
orbits, of launches, of lost satellites and the stories of the people 
who created them. To do this I have a sketchbook for notes and 
diagrams and a voice recorder to create an archive of audio 
descriptions. I'd like to reveal a mapping of connections between this 
specific place and the remote, unseen landscape of spacecraft 
architecture.

Links to some of Joanna's work:

http://impakt.nl/online/aconnectiontoaremoteplace/
http://aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/
http://breakingthesurface.net/
http://breakingthesurface.net/featheredwater/


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