THE OTHER WORLD: A FICTIONAL ORBIT

Abstract

Drawing on the familiar material from NASA’s lunar explorations and a serendipitous encounter with a memento from the Apollo 11 mission, I am working on an animated film featuring a single, looping orbit around the moon. Rendered from a computer model where planetary positions and orbits are plotted to correspond as far as possible to actuality, the lunar surface itself is based on data collected by the Clementine spacecraft which spent a some months orbiting the moon in 1994. The paper describes and reflects on my work-in-progress on this project in relation to ongoing interests in the philosophies of computing and representation.

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Tim O’Riley

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Publication date: July 2008

Publication date (Print): July 2008

Pages: 196-204

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Chelsea College of Art & Design

16 John Islip Street

London SW1P 4JU

U.K.

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2008.23

Copyright statement: © Tim O’Riley. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2008)

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2008)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 22 - 24 July 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing