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The Intersect
The Intersect examines the reciprocal influences of technology and the arts.
The Satellite Is the Camera
Latest issue · No. 83

The Satellite Is the Camera

Every generation of artists quietly steals the tools that were never built for art.

A weather satellite 22,000 miles up has one job: watch storms so we get some warning before they hit. Nobody who built it was thinking about art. Then Seán Doran took 2,500 of its infrared images, patched the gaps by hand, added color, and slowed it down until the clouds looked like moving paint. A…

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