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100 1 $aPaglen, Trevor.
245 14 $aThe last pictures /$cTrevor Paglen.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCreative Time Books ;$aBerkeley ;$aLos Angeles ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of California Press,$c2012.
300 $axiii, 193 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page xiii).
505 0 $aForeword / Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson -- Introduction: Geographies of time -- 1: Ancient aliens -- 2: One Hundred Pictures, Frozen In Time: -- Belonging: human/archive/world / Katie Detwiler -- 3: One Hundred Pictures: -- Notes on the one hundred pictures -- 4: Field Notes: -- Artifact cover etching / Joel Weisberg -- Talking mathematics to aliens? (Get real! or have fun with anthropomorphism 101!) / Rafael Nunez -- Putting a time capsule in orbit: what should it be made of? / Brian L Wardle and Karl Berggren -- EchoStar XVI Mission / EchoStar Corporation -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.
520 $aOverview: Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last Pictures, co-published by University of California Press and Creative Time Books, is rooted in the premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become the cultural and material ruins of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, far outlasting anything else humans have created. Inspired in part by ancient cave paintings, nuclear waste warning signs, and Carl Sagan's Golden Records of the 1970s, artist/geographer Trevor Paglen has developed a collection of one hundred images that will be etched onto an ultra-archival, golden silicon disc. The disc, commissioned by Creative Time, will then be sent into orbit onboard the Echostar XVI satellite in Fall 2012, as both a time capsule and a message to the future. The selection of 100 images, which are the centerpiece of the book, was influenced by four years of interviews with leading scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and artists about the contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Consequently, The Last Pictures engages some of the most profound questions of the human experience, provoking discourse about communication, deep time, and the economic, environmental, and social uncertainties that define our historical moment.
600 10 $aPaglen, Trevor$xThemes, motives.
650 0 $aInterstellar communication.
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