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<p><img src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/netartnews/20080725.gif" align="left" hspace="5"><p>This summer in Philadelphia, weird science isn't limited to the <a href="http://www.muttermuseum.org">M&uuml;tter Museum</a>: the <a href="http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/">Wood Street Gallery</a>'s exhibit "<a href="http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/home.html#currentshow">Out of This World</a>" currently showcases artists who tinker with strange new ways to experience the cosmos. Vera-Maria Glahn and Marcus Wendt's soothing interactive installation <i><a href="http://www.veraglahn.de/orbiter.html">Orbiter</a></i> lets viewers lie down on the ground and look up at a video approximation of the night sky, limned with faint concentric rings. By pointing their fingers at the ceiling, participants create new "stars" that circulate and generate looping tones. Jean-Pierre Aub&eacute;'s <a href="http://www.kloud.org/en/titan/index.php"><i>Titan and beyond the infinite</i></a> (2007) uses data recorded in 2005 by the <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm">Huygens probe</a> from one of Saturn's moons to create <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/"><i>2001</i></a>-inspired slit-scan video trip-outs; the show also includes a video version of his <a href="http://www.kloud.org/en/vlf/index.php"><i>VLF.Natural Radio</i></a> (2000-Ongoing) project, which uses the sounds of naturally-produced electromagnetic signals, a phenomenon increasingly blotted out by human-made telecommunications. Geekier frequencies can be heard in Maria Antelman's <i>taH pagh taHbe</i> (2006), a video composed of still images of NASA hanger interiors set to a Klingon translation of <i>Hamlet's</i> "To be or not to be" soliloquy (no doubt using the preferred <a href="http://www.kli.org/stuff/Hamlet.html">Klingon Language Institute</a> version as her source.) Rounding out the astronomical theme, Gail Wight's <a href="http://171.67.22.26/~gailw/"><i>Blow Out</i></a> (2006) consists of forty-four photos of different smashed test tubes, white constellations of glass shards against black backgrounds, each looking like unique, exploding galaxies. - Ed Halter</p>
<i>Image: Jean-Pierre Aube, Titan and beyond the infinite, 2007</i>
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