ARLA/CLUSTER: Tate Gallery em Londres apresenta a arte dos equipamentos para radioamadores

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Tate Gallery features Ham Radio as art

The impressive artwork '*Ten Minute Transmission*', featuring the amateur
radio Kenwood TS-2000 transceiver and the International Space Station, is
once again on display at the Tate Gallery in London

The Tate Gallery says:

Ten Minute Transmission is a sculpture by *Jennifer Allora* and *Guillermo
Calzadilla* modeled after the International Space Station. Made of wire and
attached to a ham radio transmitter, this sculpture receives radio signals
from the airwaves and transmits them into the gallery space.



This work was inspired by artist Alexander Calder’s suspended sculptures,
or mobiles. Another influence was Russian artist and architect Vladimir
Tatlin’s unrealised design, Monument to the Third International 1919, a
tower with a rotating radio station at the top.

The title of this work, Ten Minute Transmission refers to the period of
time when the International Space Station (ISS) can be contacted via radio
as it flies past. The ISS orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes, but
passes close enough to the antenna just twice a day. Usually the radio only
picks up sounds of encrypted data packets sent back to Earth from the
station. Two-way voice communication with the astronauts is now rare and
needs to be requested in advance.

Collaborative artists Jennifer Allora (born 1974 Philadelphia, US) and
Guillermo Calzadilla (born 1971 Havana, Cuba) are based in the United
States and Puerto Rico. Their work examines the ‘space of encounter between
people…whether it’s psychological territory or a physical terrain.’

Tate - Ten Minute Transmission (2019)
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/allora-calzadilla-ten-minute-transmission-t13698

Ten Minute Transmission also featured in "Common Wealth" in 2003
https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/common-wealth
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