Orbitando Satelites Manual
Orbitando Satelites Manual comes out from Orbitando Satelites workshop.
The workshop Orbitando Satelites, at Laboral centro de Arte y Creación Industrial [Gijón, Spain] was a poetic, political and technical research workshop on satellites runed in may 2011. During the workshop organized by Pedro Soler and animated by many artist and activists with different skills we set up a space for collaboration where investigating satellite science and philosophy.
Orbitando satélites proposed an exercise on the visibilisation of these objects which hold a great and hidden influence on our daily lives in spite of being concealed from the human eye. Research was conducted on how they operate, gaining access to their signals by fabricating antennae and using radio systems; showing how to locate and observe them through the use of free software.
Following the tradition of independent communities involved in the creation of Free Information infrastructures, the meeting brought together experts and amateurs from different countries and cultures to draw up a declaration that poetically sketches a map of the possible uses of satellite-technology based systems.
As results of the workshop we released a collective manual using booki.cc open publishing platform.
It gives ideas, resources, techniques and inspiration for others who want to hold similar workshops. Our wish is also that it will be used as a guide to reuniting people with a commons of sky and waves. In observing the ways that technologies both of space and the electromagnetic spectrum are produced by too narrow a culture, which undermine a multitude of nuanced and provocative relations with the skies and wave frequencies worldwide, we offer here alternative pathways. Over five days we became a temporary autonomous space agency. What we offer in this manual is a route to non-government, non-commercial spaceflight and communications.
Orbitando satelites manual: http://www.booki.cc/orbitandosatelites/
