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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: HOW TO BUILD A GIANT TELESCOPE IN THE DESERT (AND MAKE A WORLD): A FIELD GUIDE Monday, April 24, 2017 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. Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsor: Anthropology Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program Contact: Jonah Rubin. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 773-844-3020 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://anthropology.bard.edu/events/