Speed Space

Speed Space

Curated by Alexandra Gaty

January 10 – February 21, 2015

Reception: Saturday, January 10, 5pm-8pm

Kelly Akashi

Claire Falkenstein

Mark Grotjahn

Martin Grotjahn

John Houck

Alex Hubbard

Dianna Molzan

Yunhee Min

Marina Pinsky

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

— Paul Virilio, Politics of the Very Worst

8.8 billion habitable Earth-size planets exist in Milky Way alone[1] / No Apple a day for Steve Jobs’ children - who were not even allowed iPads[2] / Digital mapping uncovers ‘super henge’ that dwarfed Stonehenge[3] / US Navy predicts summer ice-free Arctic by 2016[4] / Teenage girl's skeleton found deep in underwater Mexican cave is oldest ever found in the Americas[5] / 18th-Century Ship Found Under 9/11 Site[6] / Politician's fingerprint 'cloned from photos' by hacker[7] / Ancient Egyptians used wet sand to drag massive pyramid stones, say scientists[8] / Grandma's Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes[9] / 'Mirror universe' suggests Big Bang created place where time goes backwards[10] / Homo erectus shell markings are the oldest abstract signs ever discovered[11] / NASA designs ape-like robot for disasters[12] / New laws in 2015 ban Drone paparazzi, tiger selfies[13]

[1] www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-f8C11529186

[2] www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/no-apple-a-day-for-steve-jobs-children--who-were-not-allowed-ipads-9727555.html

[3] http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/09/digital-mapping-uncovers-super-henge-that-dwarfed-stonehenge.html

[4] www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/09/us-navy-arctic-sea-ice-2016-melt

[5] www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2629505/Was-Naia-American-Teenage-girls-skeleton-dating-ice-age-13-000-years-ago-oldest-Americas.html

[6] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/pictures/110830-9/11-world-trade-center-ship-ground-zero-new-york-nation-science/

[7] www.bbc.com/news/technology-30623611

[8] www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0502/Ancient-Egyptians-used-wet-sand-to-drag-massive-pyramid-stones-say-scientists

[9] http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes

[10] www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mirror-universe-theory-suggests-big-bang-created-place-where-time-goes-backwards-9917249.html

[11] www.nature.com/news/homo-erectus-made-world-s-oldest-doodle-500-000-years-ago-1.16477

[12] www.cnn.com/2014/12/29/tech/innovation/nasa-jpl-robot-darpa/

[13] www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-laws-2015-drone-paparazzi-tiger-selfies-n278966