Environmental and Urban Studies Program and Anthropology Program Present
HOW TO BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN THE DESERT (AND MAKE A WORLD):
A FIELD GUIDE
Monday, April 24, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
a Film by
Katie Detwiler and Anna Niedermeyer
Katie Detwiler and Anna Niedermeyer
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile contains nearly two-thirds of the world’s infrastructure for astronomical data production. In 2012, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), was under construction. Documenting the extraordinary process of building a radio telescope composed of sixty-six 100-ton antennae, spread out across eighteen kilometers at 16,500 feet in altitude on a plateau in the Chilean Andes-- an anthropologist, a designer, and a camera man spent three weeks filming at ALMA. We will discuss the challenges that emerged in filming and in the subsequent experiments with the collected footage: around the interdisciplinary crafting of narrative; about the limits and possibilities of a range of ethnographic tools; and about the aesthetics of anthropology.
For more information, call 773-844-3020, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium