International Sputnik Day, Budapest
Audiovisual installation at Vajdahunyad Castle with a sound collage built from texts sent in by the public.
- Date
- Place
- Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
- City
- Budapest, Hungary[1]
For the anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 (4 October 1957), Kozma invited the public to send texts on anything related to Sputnik: memories, family legends, jokes, observations on electronic communication, even a birthday greeting. "TJ (Theory Jockey) Muzsnai" edited the texts into a coherent text block, which ran as a looped audio installation from the start of the City Park projection while DJs mixed music beneath it. The page also carries a four-point Sputnik manifesto of the 2007 International Sputnik Day Celebration Committee.[1]
The full Hungarian call and manifesto are on the Writings page. The video stream of the day was hosted on mcity.ch, which no longer exists.
Sputnik Day and Journey on the Datascape took place at the same venue and are also listed as one entry: "Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest (Sputnik Day, Journey on the datascape)".[2]
Images
Photographs from the Sputnik Day page on light-art.kozma.foundation; no individual credit given.
