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CHRISTIAN WALDVOGEL: WORKS 1971 – 2070
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fig. 1) View of the Earth from 15'000m AMSL. It turns about one degree of longitude every 4 minutes. In Switzerland, this amounts to 1158km/h, supersonic at altitudes above 4'000m AMSL.
Flying westward at said speed in a Swiss Air Force Tiger F–5, we didn't turn with the Earth from Glarus to Lucerne. We documented the standstill by taking a picture of the Sun during those four minutes, which resulted in a point.
More information and images: The Earth turns without me.



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|    update 02-07-2012    |    Copyright (c)2002–2012 by Christian Waldvogel

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THE EARTH TURNS WITHOUT ME (2010)
The rotation of the Earth can be canceled out by traveling westward at 1158 km/h. We did so, and while watching the Earth turn, we generated an image which graphically depicts the fact that we were standing still relative to the Sun.

GALILEO'S MISSING ARGUMENT (2010)
Following Galileo’s conviction in 1633, the protagonists of his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems gathered to discuss a theory of how Galileo Galilei could have evaded the guilty verdict.

ANTICHTHON (2009)
As of 2010, we still do not know whether the Pythagoreans’ Counter-Earth Antichthon exists or not. We assume it does, and depict it based on current scientific knowledge

SEVEN YEARS FROM HERE (2005)
Based on the accidental release of thosands of raw images from a NASA/ESA space probe, the first panoramic picture of the surface of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, was produced by an artist.

SPACE FROM SPACE (2008)
An astronaut assisted in the depiction of the stars as seen from space, delivering a linguistic as well as a graphical aide to calibrating sky photographs. His individual perception is interpreted and implemented.

TOP OF THE WORLD (2005)
Earth's extreme points re-defined, as if seen from beyond. Travels are undertaken to reach these points. Some of the hypotesis' are proven, while others remain documented, open for verification.

WEST POLE (2006)
Earth's extreme points re-defined, as if seen from beyond. Travels are undertaken to reach these points. Some of the hypotesis' are proven, while others remain documented, open for verification.

GLOBUS CASSUS (2004)
A thought experiment: Earth's antipode built using the whole Earth. Humanity would live on the inside of this gigantic structure. No heavens for the gods, and maybe paradise for man.

433 Eros (2008)
An asteroid is modeled as a tool for designing nature on Earth. Special attention was paid to the manufacturing process of the model, which featured a scaled-down and abstract imitation of the forming process of an asteroid.

NORTH OF EVEREST (2006)
On a KLM flight from Hong Kong to Amsterdam, I wanted to photograph Mount Everest when we were passing exactly north of it. When I needed to know the GPS coordinates, the pilots radioed to their home base in order to obtain that information.

A PIECE OF EARTH MOVED TO THE SKY (2001)
A libray suspended in the sky, in balance with the Earth and its rotation. Books are translated into genetic code and are being retrieved from the plants in the library's gardens.




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  |  created 2010-09-01   |  Copyright (c)2002–2012 by Christian Waldvogel