Message to the Extraterrestrials, 2007 (front)

Dobsonian Telescope with pedestal, slide projection with telescope mounting, slide carrousel with timer

A slide projector, attached to a Dobsonian telescope, projects images on the telescope's concave mirror, which in turn reflects them on two further mirrors installed on the ceiling and on the floor, until the light beam leaves the space through a window. The 80 slides show images which have been part on the legendary "Golden Record" produced for the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions. 

Tour Solaire, 2007 (wall)

Circle projection, video, sound

Duration approx. 10 min

The video starts with a slow zoom-out that moves from the city of Paris over the site of the Tour Solaire observatory of Meudon. Built in the 1960s to observe the sun, the observatory is today no longer in use. The video investigates the observatory as a cultural monument, which appears to be already part of the past.

Photo © Carsten Eisfeld