Durational video installation, live performance approx 25 min. (2018)
A 4 channel video projection installation and sound performance live tracking satellites in LEO as they pass over host coordinates in Brooklyn, NY. TLE coordinates fed by NASA enabled the live tracking and recording of satellite movement and space debris from a collision between an Iridium Cosmos satellites in 2009.
Using my re-outfitted ENG van, I worked on location as a resident artist at Wave Farm in Acra NY, looking at particular satellite collision debris from a 2009 collision involving a communications-based satellite (Iridium 33) and a defunct Russian satellite (Cosmos 2251). The collision was undetected until communication systems went down momentarily in Australia, and thus reignited the topic, or quandary of what to do with space junk. The Kessler Syndrome has re-emerged as an ominous marker, detailing a very real possibility that a domino collision of debris moving at high velocity could cancel out communication systems for at least 20 years. The frailty of our media ecology is expressly poignant in Earth's lower orbit.
A simple piano based synthesizer was built as a sound conductor in live tracking composition with the recorded sounds of the ENG van (motor off) that was my on location studio for these nightly sessions.