[sat] [gx at jupitter-larsen.com: Re: [mon] Mail von Reni Hofmüller]

Reni Hofmüller reni at mur.at
Wed Dec 15 09:19:26 CET 2010 

hi, leute!

hier der vorschlag von gx, den ich gern weiterleite, und den ich auch
supergern einbinden würde.

ich schreib ihm mal, dass heuer keine großen entscheidungen mehr
fallen werden.

lg
reni


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From: GX Jupitter-Larsen <gx at jupitter-larsen.com>
To: Reni Hofmüller <reni at mur.at>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:31:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [mon] Mail von Reni Hofmüller

Dear Reni;

How wonderful that you & Jogi are part of such a grand project. I saw mursat mentioned in a Kunstradio emailing. So I looked it up online.

Needless to say, I would be deeply honored to even have a small part in this project, either directly or indirectly.

The issue that excites my mind is the idea of the satellite itself as a performance platform; or even the idea that the satellite itself could be a performer. In an age when state agencies are sending robotic explorers into space, it is only natural that we, in turn, send robotic artists. Performance art in space...!!! 

On Oct 26 1992 while travelling from Venice to Paris, I did a performance piece in which I continuously wandered up & down the span of the passenger-train, counting the number of steps taken. I counted 184,000. Counting is a major recurring theme in my work. I would love to continue this counting motif on mursat. In a kind of continuation of my Venice to Paris train performance, I would like the satellite to count 184,000 "steps" while in orbit.

I would prefer this counting be done without any additional payload added to the satellite. I would rather like to make use of whatever action the satellite normally does on its own, left alone, while travelling. Even if this activity is an unintentional or accidental byproduct, such as a hum cycle from the electronics or hardware. Anything repetitive by the satellite could be used as markers for counting. The idea being that a portion of this inadvertent activity could be acknowledged as a performance, and sanctioned by mur.at/ESC. Why the counting was done would be the determining magnitude, not how the counting got done - context over gear.

I hope these ideas might be interesting for you. I look forward to hearing back from you. Jessica & I hope to return to Europe sometime in the new year. When this happens I would very much like to meet with you.

I hope the very best of luck for you all in this project!

ALL THE BEST

GX


--- On Sat, 12/11/10, Reni Hofmüller <reni at mur.at> wrote:

> hey!
> 
> greetings from graz! jogi and i - your ion-gun-haters in
> graz in 2009 - are
> 2 of the core people of mursat; actually jogi got it all
> running by 1)
> finding out about the possibility, and then 2) getting the
> first bit
> of money to at least pay the hardware.
> 
> now we are about 10 people or so from different fields,
> currently sitting at ESC (the place, that i run, a small
> noncommercial
> place for contemporary media art), where we installed
> our worklab and and exhibition that goes on until the 17th
> of dec. 
> i will take some fotos and put some stuff online, so
> that you get an idea...
> 
> how did you hear about it?
> 
> as for proceedings and plans - we are in the stage of
> finding out,
> what is actually possible, technically speaking. and then
> we will have
> to see how we are going to choose out of the ideas and
> wishes, because
> we are sure, it is going to be more than are possible to
> realize with
> just one of them.
> the reduction is part of the charme and challenge :)
> if you go to the wiki
> http://wiki.mur.at/sat
> you can find a first list of ideas and wishes, like
> cameras, gravity
> gradient boom, led, trash scanner or piezo; 
> 
> we had a meeting about the technical details and open
> questions
> yesterday, so an update of that will follow soon, too.
> 
> from what we know now, the launch date is in late
> summer/fall 2011,
> but who knows :) it has been delayed for more than 6 months
> now, so it
> could take longer.
> 
> so - sound/noisewise: the plan/wish/dream is that the piezo
> will be
> able to serve as particle detector, and/or maybe also get
> some 'solar
> winds', and who knows which other sounds we are able to
> detect; one
> idea is also to have a scanner and "hear" the rest of the
> radio-waves
> there; there is some atmosphere/matter left there, so ...
> 
> any ideas from your side?
> 
> will you be in austria/europe in the next months? would be
> nice to
> meet and hang out a bit and talk...
> 
> greetings
> reni
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:55:43AM +0100, Christain
> Pointner wrote:
> > Dieses Mail ist heute nacht hereingekommen:
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: mur.sat
> > Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:51:05 -0800 (PST)
> > From: GX Jupitter-Larsen <gx at jupitter-larsen.com>
> > To: verein at mur.at
> >
> > Hello;
> >
> > I am GX Jupitter-Larsen, and I wanted to take this
> opportunity to  
> > introduce you to my work in hopes that it might not be
> too late to  
> > somehow be involved in your wonderful space project.
> >
> > My current sound / performance art piece in entitled
> "Loud Luggage /  
> > Booming Baggage". In this piece, I perform with
> amplified suitcases. An  
> > mp3 clip of this piece can be found at:
> >
> > http://jupitter-larsen.com/noise/chicago2010.mp3
> >
> > This piece was also performed in conjunction with the
> opening for Dirk  
> > Bell's light-installation at the BALTIC Centre for
> Contemporary Art in  
> > Gateshead, and Sadie Coles HQ in London this year (see
> attachment) .
> >
> > But who am I you ask? Why should you back my work? In
> the late 1970’s I  
> > was done with the Punk scene. I was essentially
> homeless. So over time I  
> > orchestrated an international support network that
> would allow me to  
> > travel to do my art. This network, which I called The
> Haters was part  
> > noise crew, conceptual performance troupe, and
> fraternity of the absurd.
> >
> > Back in New York in 1979, confusion for me meant the
> kind of noise I was  
> > looking for wouldn’t be the audible kind. What I was
> looking for was a  
> > sociological transmission. A social distortion instead
> of sonic feedback  
> > would be my personal post-punk mandate. For
> twenty-plus years I  
> > travelled the world several times over, living as a
> nomad, doing my art.
> >
> > During the years I lived in San Francisco, I was the
> sound designer for  
> > Mark Pauline's Survival Research Labs.
> >
> > Now, based in Hollywood, I remain active in sound art.
> This year I  
> > produced a 5 episode series for the Austrian national
> radio service, the  
> > ORF. In this series, entitled "Personal Radio: A Los
> Angeles perspective  
> > on radio art" I invited LA artists to help define just
> what the medium  
> > of radio means to them.
> >
> > ALL THE BEST
> >
> > GX Jupitter-Larsen
> > PO Box 1386
> > Hollywood CA 90078
> > USA
> >
> >
> > http://www.jupitter-larsen.com
> > http://www.polywave.us
> 
> 
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>

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