Monogram

Eduardo Kac, Monogram (1996), ink drawing, which evokes an orbital trajectory, a rising rocket and a moon (and is also the artist's emblematic signature), flew to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft in 1997. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn in 2004.
Source: Eduardo Kac, Monogram (1996), ink drawing, which evokes an orbital trajectory, a rising rocket and a moon (and is also the artist's emblematic signature), flew to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft in 1997. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn in 2004.

Eduardo Kac

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Co-workers & Funding
NASA, The Cassini mission was managed for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C., by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology.
https://www.ekac.org/cassini.monogram.html
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  • Eduardo Kac, Monogram (1996), ink drawing, which evokes an orbital trajectory, a rising rocket and a moon (and is also the artist's emblematic signature), flew to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft in 1997. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn in 2004.
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  • NASA/JPL-Caltech, Cassini traveled 4.9 billion miles (7.9 billion km) to reach Saturn. The spacecraft completed 294 Saturn orbits.
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  • NASA/JPL-Caltech, A Jet Propulsion Laboratory technician inserts the DVD containing Kac's Monogram and many other files into a shallow cavity between two pieces of aluminum that protected it from micrometeoroid impacts.
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  • Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA launched the mission in 1997 and the Cassini space probe arrived at Saturn in 2004. On September 15, 2017, it deliberately dived into Saturn's atmosphere, burning up and disintegrating. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos
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  • he Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini spacecraft and its attached Huygens probe, as they launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40, on Oct. 15, 1997. Image source: NASA.
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  • The Planetary Society's letter, received by Eduardo Kac on August 8, 1996, confirming the inclusion of Kac's Monogram in the Cassini project.Image source: Kac's Archive.
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Description
August 22, 1997 (Kennedy Space Center, Florida)— A Jet Propulsion Laboratory technician inserts the DVD containing Kac's Monogram and many other files into a shallow cavity between two pieces of aluminum that protected it from micrometeoroid impacts. The package was mounted to the side of the two-story-tall Cassini spacecraft beneath a pallet carrying cameras and other space instruments that were used to study the Saturnian system. A patch of thermal blanket material was installed over the disk package.NASA launched the mission in 1997 and the Cassini space probe arrived at Saturn in 2004. On September 15, 2017, it deliberately dived into Saturn's atmosphere, burning up and disintegrating.
Ten copies of the DVD were mastered. One copy is archived at JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility, eight copies are in museums across the world and one traveled to Saturn aboard Cassini. The Cassini mission was managed for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C., by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • contextual
    • installation-based
    • performative
    • real-time
    • site-specific
  • genres
    • performance art
      • happenings
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • poetry
    • Body and Psychology
      • humans
      • posthuman
    • Nature and Environment
      • outer space
    • Technology and Innovation
      • engineering
  • technology
    • interfaces
      • camera recordings
Technology & Material
Display
NASA/JPL-Caltech Images
Installation Requirements / Space
Outer Space, Saturn, Zero Gravity
Material
Cassini space probe, disk package, Titan IVB/Centaur, Huygens probe

Follow link to explore 3D Cassini Model: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2401/cassini-3d-model/
Method
August 22, 1997 (Kennedy Space Center, Florida)— A Jet Propulsion Laboratory technician inserts the DVD containing Kac's Monogram and many other files into a shallow cavity between two pieces of aluminum that protected it from micrometeoroid impacts. The package was mounted to the side of the two-story-tall Cassini spacecraft beneath a pallet carrying cameras and other space instruments that were used to study the Saturnian system. A patch of thermal blanket material was installed over the disk package.NASA launched the mission in 1997 and the Cassini space probe arrived at Saturn in 2004. On September 15, 2017, it deliberately dived into Saturn's atmosphere, burning up and disintegrating.
Ten copies of the DVD were mastered. One copy is archived at JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility, eight copies are in museums across the world and one traveled to Saturn aboard Cassini. The Cassini mission was managed for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C., by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology.
Exhibitions & Events
"Monogram" flys to Saturn aboard Cassini space probe
Bibliography
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