Listening Space

“Listening Space” is an ongoing artistic research project that uses NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) weather satellite data as a raw material for poetic exploration and citizen science. Using wearable hand-crafted antennas and software-defined radio, satellite signals are intercepted, decoded, and then knitted into textiles. The ecologies of transmission that comprise the Radio Spectrum are the ultimate expression of the so-called Anthropocene, as they permit the operation of human life as we know it (telecommunications, environmental monitoring, radio astronomy, FM/AM radio etc.) and shape our understanding of the planet. By investigating the energies that have been harvested by humanity to knit this complex layer, the project aims to create poetic connotations between textiles as a means of data detection, collection, and archiving, and bodies as agents of power to re-interpret current technologies through handmade crafting techniques. “Listening Space” attempts to enhance the human capability to sense and to embody the dialogues intercepted between Earth and its satellites.