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artist and activist, researcher and explorer

Satellite Sonification with OSC in python, Workshop ICAS/ECAS @ Mutek, June 2nd 2012

Soon after we knew we were going to launch our own little satellite into orbit, we started thinking about how to make mursat1 and its flight accessible to others. We wanted to come up with a set of diverse interpretations … Continue reading

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Satellite fishing at Montroyal, Friday 1st June 2012

Part 3 of our work cycle in Montreal is a field trip to Mont Royal, the hill in the center of town. We are lucky with the weather, it has been raining quite often, and that would make a trip … Continue reading

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Worklab VII June 21st to June 24th 2012

Hey, it’s time again to gather in a bigger round, and focus our efforts to build the next steps. From June 21st to 24th, we will meet, starting round noon until late night, as usual. Have a look, in either … Continue reading

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Satellite Sonifications at ICAS/ECAS @MUTEK 2012

If you are in Montreal, Canada, come and meet us at one of our talks or workshop units! We are two of the mursat-team, Jogi Hofmüller and Reni Hofmüller, who were invited to be at the MUTEK-festival, as one of … Continue reading

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mursat @ MALMOE, magazine in vienna

Vienna is the seat of the editorial board of MALMOE; focussing on current urban culture and critical thinking, it seemed to be a good place to let people know about our proceedings. Go here to see where oyu can get … Continue reading

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Exhibition “Covered Skies”, opened on 4th of May 2012

A coincidence in 2009 played the announcement of IOS, Interorbital Systems, in our hands. This small company, based in the USA, enables us to construct our own pico satellite and launch it into orbit for about € 6.000,- And suddenly … Continue reading

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mursat @ Linuxtage Graz, 28th of April

On Saturday, 28th of April, it happens again – the Grazer Linuxtage: a huge bunch of people meets to exchange ideas, questions and answers along all sorts of topics, that have or can have to do with Linux. As our … Continue reading

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Worklab VI

From Feb. 22nd to 26th, we realized our sixth worklab. News to tell: Richie and I went to the amateur radio clubstation, and did some audio recordings (satellite fishing). And we have a plan for the sonification/music scoring of the … Continue reading

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Worklab V

The next worklab is in the plannning. From Friday, 27th to Sunday 29th, January, we are going to boil our brains and hearts again together, starting every day at 11am, into the night. We meet at realraum, Jakoministrasse 16, ground … Continue reading

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ARISSAT is gone

  Yesterday afternoon, on the 4th of January, we had the last contact with arissat, the radio amateur satellite that was launched from ISS on 3rd of August 2011, we had watched it – or lets say, tried to watch … Continue reading

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