Quotation of the Day - NYTimes 9/25/07
"If it had been God in his chariot that had flown over, I could not have been more impressed. It was awe-inspiring. Sputnik looked like a bright star that moved with such utter purpose that nothing could stop it; and I, in that moment, realized I wanted to be part of the movement into space."
HOMER H. HICKAM, author of "Rocket Boys"

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GMT 04:33:33 am Local Time: 03:33:33
Ljubljana - Igor Stromajer and MC Brane vs. BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System: SPUTTNIKK OPPERA
(Webstream. 3:33 min)

GMT 11:00 am Local Time 12:00 am
Madrid - John Murphy: SPUTNIK. I. VIDEO.
(Live Webcast 6-15 min)

GMT 09:00 am Local Time 10:00 am
Helsinki - Fine arts Academy and FIXC co-op: FROM THE EARTH
seminar (only in finnish, organised by general studies department and artists group FIXC co-op, in collaboration with time and space department and URSA Astronomical Association) with: Markus Rissanen, Lauri Anttila, Veli Granö, Pekka Sassi and Milja Viita, Sputnikk Opera, Jussi Kivi, a portable planetarium set 7x7x3m from URSA Astronomical Association, Sakari Lehtinen (URSA), Mikko Maasalo, Jari Haanperä, Pekka Sassi (all day until night) - access is somewhat limited, please contact [kari.yliannala at kuva.fi] in advance. www.fixc.fi

GMT 07:00 pm Local Time 20:00 Dortmund
Francis Hunger: INTERNATIONAL SPUTNIK DAY 2007
Live phone in around the globe, official toast and BBQ (place to be published, all night)

without specific time on Oct. 4 (will be specified soon):

Chatillon - Franck Ancel: FRENCH SPUTNIK DAY STREAMING EVENT from ONERA
(Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales), www.ecliptique.com

Copenhagen - Jacob Lillemose: DINNER WITH FRIENDS
listening to the radio and celebrating Sputnik

Dartington - Joanna Griffin: SATELLITE WATCH BBQ and SATELLITE STORIES PERFORMANCE,
www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net

Leipzig - Andre Greif and Matthias Hennig - SPUTNIK DAY PARTY

Los Angeles - Tenzin Phuntsog and M&A (Jenna Didier and Marcos Lutyens) - FILM SCREENINGS
Screening of the documentary "Out of the present" and maybe short
film "Satland" at the installation space at M&A. A chef who specializes in molecular cuisine and mixology will be creating a special menu for the guests that will be served on RFID-embedded plates that will trigger subtle effects designed by the artist group infranaturaland. The courtyard where we will be holding the event has or latest installation by the Oyler-Wu Collaborative, Density Fields. Some other things in the works too. Address: Materials & Applications, 1619 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026, www.emanate.org

Toronto - Nina Czegledy, Lori Tureski and Team prepare an event at the Toronto Aerospace Museum

Wiesbaden - Sascha Büttner: BLUTIGER MISCHWALD CONCERT at www.esc-space.de

1. Sputnik is a project of Modernism - The faith in a progressive future.

2. Sputnik paths - on the height of fordism - the way to post-fordism.

3. Sputnik was the first truly global radio transmitter.

4. Sputnik - Thanks to you we enjoy Internet, Global Positioning System and the Integrated Circuit.

5. Sputnik is the icon of globalisation.

We, the Multitudes of the World, celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the heroic Sputnik Launch as the Advent of Globalisation

The Sputnik Gazette will be published irregulary during 2007, containing interviews and texts by artists and scientists regarding the Sputnik Satellite and consequent technologies such as GPS, Internet, Integrated Circuit.

You may subscribe to the Sputnik Gazette online at
Official Sputnik Gazette

The subscriber receives an email containing a link to a PDF file and is requested to print the PDF file on A4/ Letter-format paper of minimum ten copies. The ten or more paper copies shall be redistributed in your city/ institution. This is called "Leanest Distribution System" (340 Kb, PDF). Electronic forwarding doesn't count as redistribution. About 10 issues of the Sputnik Gazette are planned to be produced in 2007.

Sputnik Zemli, companion of the earth. The first part of this work consists of a pop song, which includes the squeaky signal of the Sputnik, the first artificial satellite in earth orbit. The Soviet Union sent the spherical earth satellite into orbit on October 4, 1957 and created a global sensation, which made history as the "Sputnik shock". The fear of the US to be inferior technologically and on a military level, was succeeded by the development of new technologies, which with a few years of delay also benefited the civil sector - for instance the integrated circuit, the global positioning system and the basics of the Internet. On a visual Level the pop song is represented through the wave-form pencil drawing of the audio track.

The work deals with the issue, that a lot of today's technologies are cold war developments.

Francis Hunger: Sputnik Song (mp3 audio, 4.2 Mb)
Sputnik Song