[spectre] International Sputnik Day October 4, 2007

[Francis Hunger]

(please excuse cross-postings)

International Sputnik Day 2007
is a self-organized event by artists and scientists to commemorate the 
launch of the first Satellite on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. 
The goal of International Sputnik Day is to create a series of small 
events – some of them actually grew a bit bigger – to celebrate and 
commemorate the historical event.

Participants from 19 cities form a diverse program of dinners, BBQs, web 
streams, film screenings and lectures. (Budapest, Cologne, Chatillon, 
Dartington, Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main, Helsinki, Kopenhagen, 
Liverpool, Lisabon, Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York City, 
Porto, Santa Monica, Seattle, Toronto, Wiesbaden)

More details are available at http://sputnik.irmielin.org. Contact: 
sputnik at irmielin.org


Schedule

September 30, 2007

in the evening
Budapest - Anna Balint and Peter Kozma: SPUTNIK LIGHT ART INSTALLATION
at Vajdahunyad Castle. Twelve 3000 m2 projected giant images will change 
every half minute with simultaneous sound-collage. For the audio collage 
anybody can send a story, any text, just a greeting to the Sputnik. 
Contributions to the address [peterkozma.sputnik at gmail.com], 
http://www.peterkozma.com/sputnik/


October 4, 2007

GMT 02:33:33 am | Local Time 03:33:33
Ljubljana - Igor Stromajer and MC Brane vs. BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound 
System: SPUTTNIKK OPPERA
http://www.intima.org/oppera/sputtnikk (Webstream. 3:33 min)

GMT 07:00 am – 07:00 pm | Local Time 10:00 am – 10 pm
Helsinki - Fine arts Academy and FIXC co-op: FROM THE EARTH
seminar (only in finnish, organised by general studies department and 
artists group FIXC co-op, in collaboration with time and space 
department and URSA Astronomical Association) with: Markus Rissanen, 
Lauri Anttila, Veli Granö, Pekka Sassi and Milja Viita, Sputnikk Opera, 
Jussi Kivi, a portable planetarium set 7x7x3m from URSA Astronomical 
Association, Sakari Lehtinen (URSA), Mikko Maasalo, Jari Haanperä, Pekka 
Sassi (all day until night) - access is somewhat limited, please contact 
[kari.yliannala at kuva.fi] in advance. http://www.fixc.fi/

GMT 11:00 am | Local Time 12:00 pm
Madrid - John Murphy: SPUTNIK. I. VIDEO.
http://www.johnmurphy.info/tv.html (Live Webcast 6-15 min)

GMT 11:00 am | Local Time 02:00 pm
Porto – Ewen Chardronnet : CONFERENCE SPUTNIK DAY at Faculdade de Belas 
Artes
Ewen Chardronnet will give two conferences to present his work as 
intermedia artist in the specific projects “Association of Autonomous 
Astronauts” and “Spectral Investigation Collective”. http://www.fba.up.pt/

GMT 05:00 pm – 06:00 pm | Local Time 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm
Chatillon - Franck Ancel: FRENCH SPUTNIK DAY STREAMING EVENT from ONERA
(Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales), Franck Ancel 
in collaboration with Joachim Montessuis for the sound environment and 
Julien Bittner for the editing of the images will celebrate the 50th 
anniversary of the first launch of an artificial satellite, with 
"1957-2007: from Sputnik Satellite to Explorer Art" a creation that will 
be broadcast exclusively over the Internet. 
http://www.franck-ancel.com/atx/index.php?2007/09/24/34-4-oct-2007

GMT 05:00 pm | Local Time 07:00 pm
Copenhagen - Jacob Lillemose: DINNER WITH FRIENDS
A toast with vodka, a dinner and listening to the radio and celebrating 
Sputnik

GMT: 06:00 pm | Local Time: 07:00 pm
Dartington - Joanna Griffin: SATELLITE WATCH BBQ and SATELLITE STORIES 
PERFORMANCE
BBQ and Satellite Watch to mark International Sputnik Day the 50th 
anniversary of the first orbit of an artificial satellite. Including 
badge making to find lost spacecraft and yelling at satellites - at The 
Gallery at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes. 
http://aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/

GMT 06:00 pm | Local Time 08:00 pm
Dortmund - Francis Hunger: INTERNATIONAL SPUTNIK DAY 2007
Live phone in around the globe, official toast and BBQ at 
Guentherstrasse 65 yard, http://sputnik.irmielin.org

GMT 06:30 pm | Local Time 08.30 pm
Wiesbaden - Sascha Büttner: BLUTIGER MISCHWALD CONCERT at 
http://www.esc-space.de
A live improvisation is followed by a Sputnik Lounge at the ESC. The 
recording is to be published at http://www.archive.org/

GMT 09:00 pm | Local Time: 10 pm
Porto – Mecanosphere /Semaphore : LIVE FOR SPUTNIK DAY at Auditório da 
Fundação de Serralves
Portugal once was the country of the navigators and cartographers who 
opened and mapped the first nautical routes. The transonic and 
trans-national group Mecanosphere teams with Ewen Chardronnet's 
infosphere monitoring project “Semaphore”, for two live performances in 
Porto and Lisbon of rough cosmo-sonic mahyem and satellite interceptions.
http://www.serralves.pt/actividades/detalhes.php?id=1222

GMT 10:15 pm | Local Time 6:15 pm – 12 pm
Toronto - Nina Czegledy, Lori Tureski, Critical Media in collaboration 
with the Canadian Space Society INTERNATIONAL SPUTNIK DAY - CELEBRATING 
50 YEARS OF SPACE EXPLORATION at the Toronto Aerospace Museum
They'll have a reception and presentation of new media artist Slavica 
Ceperkovic's piece consisting of a continuous loop projection, a 
presentation on space era in USSR/Russia (Dr. Zelina Iskanderova, 
University of Toronto), a talk on "Space Science and Science Fiction 
(Nina Czegledy, KMDI, University of Toronto; Concordia University), 
followed by screenings of "My first rocket" (Amir Gavriely & Joel 
Robson), "The High Ground" (Michael Lennick, Foolish Earthling 
Productions) “Destination: Mars” " (Michael Lennick, Foolish Earthling 
Productions), Streaming of "Sputtnikk Oppera" live performance from 
Ljubljana (Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman), a discussion/Q&A with Michael 
Lennick, for further details see: http://www.criticalmedia.ca/#sputnik 
free admission

GMT 11:30 pm | Local Time 07.30 pm
New York - Nic Xedro, Jeremy Eilers, Ronnie Bass: NIC XEDRO LIVE GIG
at at the electronics store called Circuit City at Union Square (52 East 
14th Street No. 64, New York, NY 10003) in celebration of the 
International Sputnik Day.

GMT 00:00AM | Local Time: 7 PM
Huntsville - Yohon Lo (HAL 5): REMINISENCE OF SPUTNIK PANEL
Guest panelists will include Von Braun Rocket Team members Konrad 
Dannenberg and Ernst Stuhlinger, plus NASA Historian Mike Wright. 7 PM 
to 8:30 PM. Huntsville - Madison County Main Public library. 915 Monroe 
Street, Huntsville, AL 35801. http://www.HAL5.org

in the evening
Santa Monica - Sherrie Rabinowitz & Kit Galloway: CELEBRATING SPUTNIK 
AND SATELLITE ART
Rabinowitz and Galloway, pioneers of satellite arts celebrate the 
Sputnik Day with a BBQ and Sputnik/ Beatnik music.

in the evening
Los Angeles - Tenzin Phuntsog and M&A - FILM SCREENINGS & MOLECULAR DINNER
Materials & Applications Landscape and Architecture Research (M&A) will 
host an evening of Russian space-age molecular cuisine and film 
screenings under the canopy of Density Fields, a work in progress by 
Oyler-Wu Collaborative (http://oylerwu.com/). Special effects for the 
evening designed by infranatural (www.infranatural.com). The dinner is a 
private event - the film screening will be open to subscribers only - 
see http://www.emanate.org/ma-support.htm for information on how to 
become a subscriber! Screening of the documentary "Out of the present" 
and "Satland". Address: Materials & Applications, 1619 Silver Lake 
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026, http://www.emanate.org

in the evening
Seattle - Stacey Holland and Eric: SPUTNIK HOUSE PARTY
Stacey and Eric celebrate with a house party. They are active in music 
and the arts and plan to invite like-minded friends over to watch, Space 
Race: Race to the Moon, play live music, eat, drink and make plans for 
future art/musical endeavors. Perhaps there will be spontaneous "Ode to 
Sputnik" tunes created...

in the course of the day
Cologne - Peter Simon: TRACK
Peter creates a special Sputik song on the occasion, more details to come

in the course of the day
Liverpool - Markus Soukup: TRACK
Markus creates a special track, which can be downloaded from here (soon)

in the course of the day
Frankfurt Main - Verena Kuni aka Miss Gunst: GUNSTRADIO ON SPUTNIK
Verena dedicates a one hour radio show to the Sputnik and the show will 
be streamed, archived online afterwards. details to follow.


Oct 5, 2007

GMT 10:00 pm | Local Time 11 pm
Lisabon – Mecanosphere / Semaphore : LIVE AT GALERIA ZDB
The transonic and trans-national group Mecanosphere teams with Ewen 
Chardronnet's infosphere monitoring project “Semaphore”, for two live 
performances in Porto and Lisbon of rough cosmo-sonic mahyem and 
satellite interceptions. http://www.zedosbois.org/zdbmuzique/index.htm 
(zdb - galeria zé dos bois rua da barroca 59, bairro alto, 1200 - lisboa)


Oct 6, 2007

GMT 04:00 pm | Local Time: 5 pm
Lisabon – Ewen Chardronnet : CONFERENCE + FILM PROGRAM at Fábrica Braço 
de Prata, http://www.bracodeprata.org/