How do satellites remember events? An installation using SPOT commercial satellite imagery to investigate a mass grave site in Kosovo during the NATO air campaign, tried to show how satellites might sometimes form the only traces of particular memories.
Exhibited:
“World Views: Maps and Art,” Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, September 1999 – January 2000. Catalogue. Re-exhibited in “Kosov@,” Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, April 2000; and “Anxious Omniscience,” Princeton University Art Gallery, February-April 2002
Imagery copyright © 1999 SPOT where noted
All other images Laura Kurgan