SPACE DEBRIS :: WASTE CONSTELLATIONS  © 2021

Space Debris :: Waste Constellations, 2021
Wooden fibre, fibre optics, mirror methacrylate, transparent methacrylate
Technology: Leds WS2812B (51 und) , transformer (10 und), arduino nano (30 und), microprocessor ESP 8266 (28 und), motion sensors HS0501SR (30 und), ultrasonic sensors HS04 (14 und), release KY009 (50 und), 8 segment display TM1637 (44 und), wifi router, speakers and amplifier.
Overall dimensions: 1150 x 1150 x 95 cm (h) // 44 platforms, diameter (20-50 cm) and height (50-95 cm).

Space Debris :: Waste Constellations is part of an artistic investigation that analyses and highlights the enormous swarm of space debris that revolves around the Earth in its four main orbits. Based on data extracted from scientific sources, it identifies the eleven powers responsible for the exponential accumulation of space debris, classifies and categorises the data, and shows how this constellation of space debris is distributed in the cosmos. A type of pollution, invisible to our eyes, but real and threatening.

The exhibition is structured around three axes. The first, the conceptual one, reveals the data collected from scientific sources and produces graphs that help to understand them. Each country has been classified according to the four Earth orbits, LEO, MEO, GEO and HEO, and according to the three main categories of space debris: debris, rocket body and payload.

The second and main axis consists of a large, interactive, three-dimensional installation that interprets outer space and its four main orbits. A projection of the Earth acts as the centre, around which are distributed 44 platforms woven with fibre optics and activated by light sensors. In its perpendicular projection a specular oculus shows us the data of that country in the form of a circular ring chart and an audio completes this immersive environment. The platforms of the countries with the greatest impact trigger a projection that translates the data of the activated state into a dynamic and generative visualisation.

Finally, the documentary axis contextualises this issue through the projection "Time to act", by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The conquest of space has generated great advances on our Planet, now it is time to act, to assume responsibilities and to avoid this exponential growth of space pollution. A look from the disruptive thinking that art proposes to one of the great challenges of the 21st century, how to control the pollution we produce.

CREDITS ::

Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro
Production: Esther Pizarro Studio
Technology and programming: Markus Schroll
Funding: Project carried out thanks to the support of Alicante City Council and the Ministry of Culture and Sport.

Winning project of the Call for exhibition projects for Las Cigarreras, Buitblanc, 2019-20.

Winning project of the Ayudas para la Investigación, Creación y Producción artística en las Artes Visuales 2020 / Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.

EXHIBITED IN ::

Caja Blanca del Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras. “Space Debris :: Constelaciones de desechos”. Ayuntamiento de Alicante, España. 07/06/2021 al 18/09/2021.

Euskalduna Urban Hall. “Cartografías intangibles”. Euskalduna Bilbao, España. 29/12/2022 al 04/02/2023.

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