Here’s my dog Peter sitting on a test swatch of the tapestry.
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the tapestry of the search for terrestrial intelligence
The Tapestry of the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence is my piece for the show Life at the Edges, on view through September 30 at Science Gallery Dublin.
In 1977, the two Voyager space probes were launched, each carrying a golden record with music, sounds, and voices from Earth — just in case. The records also feature over a hundred digital images encoded as sounds. If an alien civilization picked up one of the Voyager probes a million years from now, what would they make of the information on the record? They probably wouldn’t think they way we do. They might try to taste the disk, or try to find meaning in the way it feels when they rub their fingers on the grooves. Or they might try to decode the ancient, degraded images onto a forty-meter-long tapestry.
COLLAB FEB: Muyassar Kurdi
Muyassar Kurdi and I built and played a trapezoid!
COLLAB FEB: Lucie Vítková
(LOUD!)
Lucie Vítková: concept and amplified sweeper
Ranjit Bhatnagar: amplified sweeper
COLLAB FEB: Nick Barr
Nick Barr on coin-operated binoculars, me on imaginary piano.
COLLAB FEB: Sam Underwood
February is over but COLLAB FEB goes on! Sam Underwood on kitchen utensil, string, and pet toy, me on pipe, paper, pins, and stones.
Check out the story of this collaboration on twitter.
COLLAB FEB: Erika Nelson
An accidental COLLAB FEB with Erika Nelson on American Jazz Museum and me on piano roll editor, and help from Derek Sappington.
COLLAB FEB: Heather Kelley
Heather Kelley on door closer and cobblestones, Ranjit Bhatnagar on Jelly Roll Toy Piano and steam vents
COLLAB FEB: Lemy Ignacio and Lem Jay Ignacio
COLLAB FEB: John Glover
Knifey-Spoony with John Glover!