OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
In 1977, the scientist Carl Sagan created a gold-plated record for NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft. The purpose of this interstellar LP was to communicate with extraterrestrials through sound and image; it contained 116 encoded photographs celebrating human civilization. In 2012, the artist Trevor Paglen transformed Sagan’s project, launching pictures of death and disaster into space on a satellite that will orbit Earth for billions of years. This talk explores what it means to send images into space. Sagan’s and Paglen’s projects are radically different, but both reflect faith in the power of images to cross profound distances—the spans dividing forms of life, galaxies in space, and the arc of time between our present and a remote future.
