GAM 2012 Blog
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April 5 By Daniela de Paulis |
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| As part of GAM 2012 I will present my new work 'le Voyage dans la Lune', a B/W video inspired by the recently restored 1902 film by George Méliès. |
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The video is composed by 26 moonbounced images showing the Lunar phases and kindly provided by Mr. Michael Oates, a member of the Manchester Astronomical Society. Sometimes in September 2011 the 26 still frames were sent to the Moon as radio waves by Howard Ling's station in the UK and received back by Dwingeloo radio telescope in The Netherlands, after travelling approximately 800.000 Kilometres.
In 'le Voyage dans la Lune' I used the 26 moonbounced still frames, joining them into a sequence and creating the very first film of this kind. This work is hopefully the pioneering experiment for more films to be moonbounced in a near future. Since starting my collaboration with CAMRAS (www.camras.nl), the radio amateurs association based at Dwingeloo radio telescope, back in October 2009, I had the opportunity to explore the interesting potential of radio waves in the visual arts, pioneering a new application of Moonbounce technology that I now call 'Visual Moonbounce' (VM). This allows sending images to the Moon and back as radio waves, using two or more radio stations on Earth. VM is now becoming a popular tool for radio amateurs across the world for exchanging images via the Moon.
Moonbounced images look very special, the loss of definition caused by the long distance travelled adds an interesting and very poetical quality to them. Moonbounce can be considered the very first form of Space travel and Visual Moonbounce makes this travel visible.
Please follow the updates on the GAM website regarding the details of the screening.
Questions and comments are very welcome, please contact me on [email protected] or visit my website www.opticks.info
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Daniela De Paulis is an artist working with video, installation, sound and performance. She has been an active practitioner since 2001 and working on several projects, often in collaboration with other artists, scientists and radio amateurs. Daniela studied Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and graduated in Painting; however the confined and solitary studio work soon proved to be a limitation to her artistic practice rather than enhancing it. In 2003 she completed a Master Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Plymouth and since 2005, been lecturing in Art & Design. Participated in several artists residencies programs, including HIAP in Finland and Kaus Australis in The Netherlands, she have shown her work in the UK, Italy, The Netherlands, France, Bulgaria, Finland and Brazil. Daniela currently a PhD student at Leiden University, developing her ongoing research on the connection between Art and Science |
