'CU Soon' Print Collection

Prints and Drawings, Machine performances, Radio Transmission, Slow Scan Television (SSTV), Satellites, Bespoke Software Architecture, Astropolitics

These are images that have travelled through space, had a personal encounter with a satellite and been returned to Earth completely transformed.

CU Soon was a series of performance works for humans and satellites. Thompson created a collection of electronic greeting 'postcards' encoded as radio signals which she sent to satellites orbiting the planet. These greetings travel into space and are returned by the satellites, scrambled, and reassembled into something new.

For this print collection, the images are presented in pairs: the original postcard sent into space and the modified image returned by the satellite. Each diptych forms a narrative of before and after. They show the postcard image's transformation through their encounter with the satellite, and the noise and glitches acquired during this epic journey into space and back.

Hello (Transmission to and from CAS-5A. Received Slovakia 2023-03-15 13:43:15 to 13:51:00)

2024
Diptych of Giclée prints on photo-rag smooth paper, framed, 28 x 48 cm
Ed. 3 + 2 APs

Print available through GAZELL.IO

I am very Happy (Transmission to and from DOSAAF-85. Received Turkey 2023-03-16 13:55:00 to 14:13:55)

Print on photo-rag paper and .mp4 (NFT)
2 prints each 87 x 67 cm
Ed. 3 + 2 APs

Print available through GAZELL.IO

CU Soon (Transmission to and from CAS-5A. Received Czech Republic 2023-03-14 13:51:43 to 14:01:21)

Print on photo-rag paper and .mp4 (NFT)
2 prints each 87 x 67 cm
Ed. 3 + 2 APs

Print available through GAZELL.IO