While Rover searches the surface of Mars, an artist will be sending his own micro-vision of life on Earth into space this fall.
On September 19 at Bryant Park, Trevor Paglen, the artist and geographer; Werner Herzog, the filmmaker; and Tracy K. Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will preview Mr. Paglen's work “The Last Pictures,†an archival disc scheduled to orbit the earth affixed to the exterior of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI.
For the project, which is being sponsored by Creative Time, a nonprofit public art organization, Mr. Paglen micro-etched 100 photographs selected to represent modern human history onto a silicon disc encased in a gold-plated shell, designed at MIT a nd Carleton College.
The Bryant Park event, from 7 P.M. to 8:30 P.M., will be presented by Creative Time and LIVE from the NYPL. After Ms. Smith reads from her book of poetry “Life on Mars,†Mr. Paglen will preview some of the images that will be launched into space. Then Mr. Paglen and Mr. Herzog will have a conversation about cultural artifacts, space exploration and the legacy of human civilization, moderated by Paul Holdengraber of LIVE from the NYPL.
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