Workshop: DIY Satellite Ground Station with open-weather (Soph Dyer & Sasha Engelmann)

Ahead of the exhi­bi­ti­on “Teleconnections” open-wea­ther will lead a DIY Satellite Ground Station work­shop at D21. By the end of the work­shop, each par­ti­ci­pant will under­stand the basics of radio com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and will be edu­ca­ted in using a DIY Satellite Ground Station to recei­ve wea­ther images from meteo­ro­lo­gi­cal satel­li­tes. The work­shop will employ femi­nist prin­ci­ples to chall­enge domi­nant nar­ra­ti­ves around wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies and histories.
The work­shop results will be included as part of the exhi­bi­ti­on, ope­ning on 7th November.

Workshop will be held in English.

Please note that all par­ti­ci­pan­ts need to bring:
• A lap­top and a charger
• if your lap­top has no USB A slot plea­se bring an adap­ter (e.g. USB C/thunderbolt to fema­le USB A)
• wea­ther-appro­pria­te clothing

Open-wea­ther is a femi­nist expe­ri­ment in ima­ging and ima­gi­ning the earth and its wea­ther sys­tems using DIY tools. Co-led by Soph Dyer and Sasha Engelmann sin­ce 2020, open-wea­ther makes art­works, leads inclu­si­ve work­shops, and deve­lo­ps resour­ces on satel­li­te imagery recep­ti­on and rea­ding. Through the­se acti­vi­ties, a net­work has for­med around the pro­ject, curr­ent­ly num­be­ring more than one hundred DIY Satellite Ground Station ope­ra­tors around the world, from Buenos Aires to Berlin. In the tra­di­ti­on of inter­sec­tion­al femi­nism, open-wea­ther inves­ti­ga­tes the poli­tics of loca­ti­on and interlo­cking oppres­si­ons that shape our capa­ci­ties to obser­ve, nego­tia­te, and respond to the cli­ma­te cri­sis. In doing so, open-wea­ther chal­lenges domi­nant repre­sen­ta­ti­ons of earth and envi­ron­ment while com­pli­ca­ting ide­as of the wea­ther bey­ond the meteorological.

Registration via Mail: office@d21-leipzig.de
For Participation we ask you for a small donation.