MachineMachine /stream - tagged with carl-sagan https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC]]> http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/09/04/9705/voyager-1-nasa-jpl-launch-anniversary-35-birthday/

With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant, turbulent, plasma bubble near the fringes, the longest-running, most-distant spacecraft in NASA's history celebrates a l

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Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:05:00 -0700 http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/09/04/9705/voyager-1-nasa-jpl-launch-anniversary-35-birthday/
<![CDATA["Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen]]> http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/steve_mcqueen1/

In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the way to the back of a very dark room a large screen is suspended from the ceiling, but without touching the floor. The projector is behind the screen and is set to show each slide for around half a minute before dissolving it into the next. The cycle of images lasts 70 minutes and the installation includes sound.

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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:57:00 -0700 http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/steve_mcqueen1/
<![CDATA[Voyager 1 and 2's Infinite Playlist]]> http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/charts-graphs/?page=73

Selected by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan, these songs were etched into a 12-inch, gold-plated copper record that was placed aboard the two spaceships in 1977

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Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:07:00 -0700 http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/charts-graphs/?page=73