Community Satellite Station

• Main Author: Schuppli, Susan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Artica Svalbard 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Arctic Archipelago; artica; Climate change
• Online Access: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32947/; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32947/1/savlsat3.jpg; https://soundcloud.com/schuppli

This audio project was produced during an Artica Svalbard residency in April 2022 and was organised around a series of conversations with scientists and locals all of whom are involved in sending, receiving and listening to signals from Svalbard. Located at 78 degrees latitude, the Svalbard Arctic Archipelago is the site where many technical infrastructures converge both above and below ground. Historically these were primarily coal mines and weather stations but today they are more likely to take the form of signal communications and remote sensing systems as well as scientific research stations and of course the Global Seed Vault. How might we attune ourselves to the transmissional geographies of climate change and also relay knowledge about such changes? What kinds of signals is Svalbard sending us today? Guided by these questions I set out to document and record some of the telecommunications infrastrustures that dot this remote landscape and listen to the stories and experiences that are attached to these transformative cyrospheric ecologies. Contributors: Maja-Stina Ekstedt, Katie Herlingshaw, Maaike Groeneveld, Solveig Anna Torvaldsdottir, Oskar Glowacki