RWM Working Group x open-weather

A Satellite Ground Station at Hangar tracks NOAA satellites every day

Estació Satèl·lit Terrestre a Hangar. Foto: NOAA-18

Meteorological broadcasts, climate observation and DIY

Setting out from constant exploration of sound, transmission and media infrastructures, the Radio Web MACBA Working Group has teamed up with the open-weather collective to set up a Satellite Ground Station at Hangar, Barcelona.

This collaboration forms part of the Year of the Weather open-weather project, as well as of The Art of Navigation: How to Get Lost in a World of Images, a collective exhibition curated by Jon Uriarte for Foto Colectania, featuring also the work of Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann.

The exhibition examines the evolution of the role of photography in digital culture, from web maps to space exploration, and at the same time reflects on the colonial and extractive legacies embedded in the creation of contemporary images. At a time when images determine navigation, in both physical and digital space, the Hangar Satellite Ground Station –which will be sending images to the exhibition in the gallery– offers an intervention on these networks, with the aim of fostering alternative ways of seeing and feeling the world.

Also for the occasion, the transcription of the interview with RWM, previously published as an EPUB under the umbrella of Re-Imagine Europe, has been adapted to a fanzine format, printed by Lumbung.

Images from the Satellite Ground Station installed at Hangar can be viewed every day at https://open-weather.community/archive/.

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open-weather is a feminist experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY community tools. Co-led by researcher-designer Sophie Dyer and creative geographer Sasha Engelmann, open-weather encompasses a series of how-to guides, critical frameworks and public workshops on the reception of satellite images using free or inexpensive amateur radio technologies. In the tradition of intersectional feminism, open-weather investigates the politics of location and interlocking oppressions that shape our capacities to observe, negotiate, and respond to the climate crisis. In doing so, open-weather challenges dominant representations of earth and environment while complicating ideas of the weather beyond the meteorological.