July 2025,
English, 5 x 7.5 in., 204 pages, b&w, soft cover, spiral-bound
Edition of 250
Design: Brian Bartz & Kelley O'Leary
To Hear a Shadow is the culmination of a research project into weather satellites. Over the course of two years, artists Brian Bartz and Kelley O’Leary
used open-source radio technology and a hand-built antenna to intercept
transmissions from aging NOAA satellites (officially decommissioned in
June 2025). The images they found traveling invisibly through the air
became the scaffolding for this book. Meanwhile, they fell down a rabbit
hole, sifting through declassified Cold War era documents
surrounding earth-imaging and the utility of vertical perspectives to
the state. This ultimately led the artists to speculative questions
surrounding the relationship between network infrastructure,
militarization, and cosmic forces beyond human agency.
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