All The Stars We Cannot See: A deep look into real-time satellite traffic

All the Stars We Cannot See (2020–2022) by Megan Smith & Yujie Gao, is an interactive immersive installation which geographically places the user in locations around the world so that they can look up into a virtual sky and see in real-time which satellites are flying overhead. With the satellite identification application, N2YO, tracking more than 23,000 satellite objects combined with the rapid increase of SpaceX launches, the artists are working to render visible an experience which will allow people to see the impact of the satellites in the sky, and to understand the presence of technology surveillance globally. This project is in development with UBC Visualisation Emergent Media Studio, with a proposed public launch on their state-of-the-art multi-screen immersive system in Spring 2021. The project will be adapted for a sensory enhanced VR exhibition and for an Augmented Reality application.

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Megan L. Smith

Yujie Gao

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Publication date: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 214-220

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[0001]University of British Columbia

Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies

Canada

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.36

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2021

Conference acronym: EVA 2021

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 5th July – 9th July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] J. Berger (1972) Ways of Seeing. Penguin Press, United Kingdom.

[2] M. Franck (2020) Geographic Data Visualization. https://youtu.be/0cv37IFJRxg (16 March, 2021).

[3] A. Gorman (2019) Dr. Space Junk Vs. The Universe. MIT Press,USA.

[4] Heavens Above https://www.heavens-above.com/ (retrieved 16 March, 2021).

[5] M Huang, Bob Hunt, and Dave Mosher (2021) What Elon Musk's 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — planet Earth https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-42000-starlink-satellites-earth-effects-stars-2020-10 (retrieved 16 March, 2021).

[6] N2YO.com https://www.n2yo.com/api/ (retrieved 15 March 2021).

[7] North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) https://www.norad.mil/ (retrieved 16 March, 2021).

[8] Our World: 1967 TV experiment links five continents by satellite. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/our-world-five-continents-linked-via-satellite (retrieved 15 March 2021).

[9] M. Smith, J. Desnoyers-Stewart (2019) Riding Through Walls: A journey of physical computing through Google Street View. In: J. Weinel, J.P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds), EVA London 2019 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts) 2019. [Cross Ref]

[10] M. Smith, J. Desnoyers-Stewart, G. Kratzig (2019) Designing Virtual Reality Tools: making simulated interventions feel and act like their real counterparts. I/ITSEC, Orlando, December.

[11] SpaceX Starlink. https://www.spacex.com/launches/ (retrieved 15 March 2021).

[12] Starlink Launches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink (retrieved. 15 March 2021).

[13] TouchDesigner. https://derivative.ca/ (retrieved. 15 March 2021).

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