DARK MATTERS

Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesFestival/Exhibition

Description

ECLIPSE: Moon draws Earth, earth draws Moon

Analogue projection on site of new Edinburgh Printmakers Arts Complex in Fountainbridge Edinburgh, created by David Faithfull with astronomer Dr William Taylor and astronomical engineer William Cochrane from UKATC. Event coincided with Total solar eclipse on 20th March 2015. Projection includes 3D printed lunar model printed by UKATC and accompanying kinetic blown up full stop from last page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia' from Edinburgh Observatory Library, heralding Age of Enlightenment.
Period20 Mar 2015
Event typeExhibition
LocationEdinburgh, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

  • total eclipse
  • collaboration
  • space
  • moon
  • age of enlightenment
  • isaac newton
  • ukatc