The last pictures

The last pictures

by Paglen, Trevor

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Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from n…

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  • Full title :The last pictures / Trevor Paglen, Creative Time, New York.

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Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. This book, co-published by Creative Time Books, chronicles a project intended to explain to someon.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520954298, 0520954297, 1282134612, 9781282134614
  • oclc:ocn806049446
  • LC Classification:N6537.P22
  • Dewey Decimal:709.2

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Geographies of Time; 1 Ancient Aliens; 2 One Hundred Pictures, Frozen in Time; "Belonging": Human/Archive/World; 3 One Hundred Pictures; Notes on the One Hundred Pictures; 4 Field Notes; The Artifact Cover Etching; Talking Mathematics to Aliens? (Get Real! ... or Have Fun with Anthropomorphism 101!); Putting a Time Capsule in Orbit: What Should It Be Made Of?; The EchoStar XVI Mission; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Credits.

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Subjects

ART -- Individual Artists Communications interstellaires Interstellar communication Paglen, Trevor Themes, motives

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Paglen, Trevor

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