…for Stull Observatory

Three Devices resembling computers display material experiments in front of a glowing grid, all set around the Austin-Fellows observatory at Alfred University’s Stull Observatory.

Device 1 is a solid, black glass orb distorting the red neon behind it.

Device 2 is a ceramic “moon” inscribed with a grid and craters obscuring the high pressure krypton behind it.

Device 3 is a curved glass tube embedded with a uranium reticello pattern, revealed by UV light and superimposed in front of a purple argon grid, almost like a hologram.

The final piece is a monitor displaying the Pure Data code for Kepler 3, a sound piece that transforms the current position of seven celestial bodies into an audible chord according to Johannes Kepler’s music theory. Because Austin-Fellows is a dome, the chord churns and resonates eerily in space