“Tycho: Test One” by Paul Friedlander
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- Tycho: Test One
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May 27-July 23, Centre d’Art Cal Massó de Reus, Beep Collection: Origins. Public event.
Tycho was one of the last astronomers to carry out all his work without a telescope as he died in 1601, shortly before its invention. Instead his observatory contained a great globe and numerous quadrants and astrolabes. It was thinking about the experience of being in this strange observatory that was in part to inspire this installation. It also happens that the work in luminous concrete has come to take on a shape approximating the monolith in the movie 2001, and that it was discovered by astronauts on the moon, according to the story, concealed under dust in the floor of the crater Tycho.
[Source: Ars Electronica/flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/44513806421]
