videostill of Blue Marble

Installationshot (build into wall on high location)

Blue Marble
Duration: 3.20 minutes

The "Katastrophen Alarm" exhibition examines media fabrications of this kind and the appropriation of environmental disasters by politics. Artists were invited to analyse the mechanisms used to convey a sense of danger and the visual presentation of catastrophes.

Exhibition: Katastrophen Alarm
Curated by: Sophie Goltz, Christine Heidemann, Anne Kersten, Vera Tollmann, Ingo Vetter
Participating artist: Dave Hullfish Bailey (USA), Margit Czenki / Christoph Schäfer (D), Christoph Draeger (USA/CH), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Azin Feizabadi / Kianoosh Vahabi (D/IR), Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (CH), René Lück (D), Eva Meyer Keller (D), Claudia Mucha (D), Lisi Raskin (USA), Lise Skou / Nis Rømer (DK), spector cut+paste (Markus Dreßen / Anne König / Jan Wenzel) (D), Andrei Ujica (D/RO), Ingo Vetter (SE/D)
Location: NGBK, Berlin, DE

Exhibited at:

2011:
Mutualisms, Co-Prosperity Sphere (C-PS), Chicago, US
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (solo), Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (solo), IKON Gallery Birmingham, UK

2009
Published online at: www.AS17-148-22727.com
Caleidoscope, RAM Foundation Rotterdam NL
Amsterdam Artfair, Amsterdam, NL

2008
Katastrophen Alarm, NGBK, Berlin, DE

Blue Marble

Blue Marble* is a digital animation which takes as its starting point an image so widely appropriated as to have been almost severed from its source.

A photograph of Earth, alone in space, was shot in 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 and has subsequently changed our perception of the planet. It has since provided a backdrop for countless acts of imaginative projection, being pressed into service through the production of thousands of symbols and logos representing the widest variety of activities, organisations and political, social or environmental causes.

Blue Marble consists of 1,500 of such impositions onto the original iconic picture.

Online publication: Blue Marble

*The first ‘Blue Marble’ photo was taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 29,000 kilometers or about 18,000 statute miles. This image became one of the most widely distributed images in the world.

The photo (negative AS17-148-22727) was originally taken ‘upside down’ in that the north pole was at the bottom of the photo. This is because of the orientation in which the astronauts were traveling at that moment.