An Anthology of Human Messages into Deep Space and Cosmic Time
Edited by David Dunér, Morwenna Loughman, Paul Quast. Foreword by Alice Gorman. Text by Klara Anna Capova, Christopher Gillespie, Paul Quast, Kelly Smith, John Traphagan. Afterword by Cornelius Holtorf.
A visual ethnography of humanity's traces in deep space
From the dawn of the Space Age, humans have purposefully transmitted signals and ephemera to other stellar systems, created space-time capsules that intend to speak for Earth, deposited collections of space oddities upon satellites and planets, and sought to permanently memorialize human legacies into the deep-time narrative of the solar system.
Such messages are the consequence of age-old customs and material-ritual practices using modern aerospace technologies; projecting old narratives of human experience and attitudes into the higher frontier for imagined audiences or as gestures to eternity. How do we ourselves begin then to interpret such a purposeful and idiosyncratic archaeological legacy? What does such autobiographical media reveal about our transforming minds and generations, set against the unfolding backdrop of our planetary history?
Beyond the Earth: An Anthology of Human Messages into Deep Space and Cosmic Time catalogs humanity’s changing relations and behaviors as illustrated by these fragments accumulated beyond our atmosphere. Within a series of interdisciplinary essays, alongside a vast visual ethnography, authors Paul Quast, Klara Anna Capova, John Traphagan, Kelly Smith and Chris Gillespie examine the complex narratives, ideologies and assumptions that represent ourselves, and our ever-transforming world, in the cosmos.
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Beyond the Earth An Anthology of Human Messages into Deep Space and Cosmic Time
A visual ethnography of humanity's traces in deep space
Published by Atelier Éditions. Edited by David Dunér, Morwenna Loughman, Paul Quast. Foreword by Alice Gorman. Text by Klara Anna Capova, Christopher Gillespie, Paul Quast, Kelly Smith, John Traphagan. Afterword by Cornelius Holtorf.
From the dawn of the Space Age, humans have purposefully transmitted signals and ephemera to other stellar systems, created space-time capsules that intend to speak for Earth, deposited collections of space oddities upon satellites and planets, and sought to permanently memorialize human legacies into the deep-time narrative of the solar system.
Such messages are the consequence of age-old customs and material-ritual practices using modern aerospace technologies; projecting old narratives of human experience and attitudes into the higher frontier for imagined audiences or as gestures to eternity. How do we ourselves begin then to interpret such a purposeful and idiosyncratic archaeological legacy? What does such autobiographical media reveal about our transforming minds and generations, set against the unfolding backdrop of our planetary history?
Beyond the Earth: An Anthology of Human Messages into Deep Space and Cosmic Time catalogs humanity’s changing relations and behaviors as illustrated by these fragments accumulated beyond our atmosphere. Within a series of interdisciplinary essays, alongside a vast visual ethnography, authors Paul Quast, Klara Anna Capova, John Traphagan, Kelly Smith and Chris Gillespie examine the complex narratives, ideologies and assumptions that represent ourselves, and our ever-transforming world, in the cosmos.
