• I am very Happy (Transmission to & from DOSAAF-85. Received Turkey 2023-03-16 13:55:00 to 14:13:55)
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I am very Happy (Transmission to & from DOSAAF-85. Received Turkey 2023-03-16 13:55:00 to 14:13:55),

by Nye Thompson

Diptych of Giclée prints on photo-rag smooth paper, framed

28 x 48 cm

$3,500.00
$3,500.00
CU Soon by Nye Thompson is a series of performance works for humans and satellites. The artist created a collection of electronic greeting ‘postcards’ encoded as radio signals which she sent to satellites orbiting the planet. These greetings travel into space and are returned by the satellites, scrambled, and reassembled into something new.

For this print collection, the images are presented in pairs: the original postcard sent into space and the modified image returned by the satellite. Each diptych forms a narrative of before and after. They show the postcard image’s transformation through their encounter with the satellite, and the noise and glitches acquired during this epic journey into space and back.


The video is a real-time graphical recording of the actual radio signal that the satellite sent back to the artist - an image travelling through space. This radio signal contains the coded information that was used to generate the new image.
About Nye Thompson

Nye Thompson (b. 1966) is an artist turned software designer turned artist. Her work spans image-making, video and sculptural installation, film-making, archiving, mapping, experimental software architectures and process-based performance. Thompson has shown internationally at locations including Tate Modern, Barbican, The Lowry, The V&A, ZKM Karlsruhe, Chronus Art Center, Ars Electronica and The Louvre. Her work has been featured on BBC, Radio 4, Channel 4 News, CNN, Flash Art, the Guardian and Wired. Thompson made the world’s first AI horror film for machines and has exchanged postcards with orbiting satellites. Her very first solo show in 2016 - described by C4 News as “too shocking to broadcast” - became global clickbait and triggered an international government complaint. She has been called “a contemporary Jacques Cousteau” (Bob & Roberta Smith) and “the new Big Brother” (Vogue).
I am very Happy (Transmission to & from DOSAAF-85. Received Turkey 2023-03-16 13:55:00 to 14:13:55)