Open Call to all artists for postal art about missed communications, misunderstandings, lost letters, and garbled messages.
“Astra 5A Memorial Exhibit: Drifting Satellites/Lost Signals”
Medium: Any, Free
Size: Any/Free
All work will be exhibited, photographed and cataloged.
Deadline: December 31, 2016
Send your work to:
Astra5A c/o Hobo 23 (Gregory Fitzsimmons)
1620 N Richmond Street
Chicago IL 60647 USA
All work will be exhibited at Uss Gallery in Chicago and cataloged on the gallery’s website.
Asta5A (Sirius 2) is a damaged and failed communications satellite, which experienced a technical anomaly leading to the end of the spacecraft’s mission in January of 2009. Astra5A continues its asynchronous travels around the earth, but now in a graveyard orbit, filled with messages that cannot be sent or retrieved.
http://www.space.com/6346-failed-telecommunications-satellite-drifts-control.html