For the past three years, Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon have been using the imaging technology of astronomy to record the work of astronomers at MIT's Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts. In collaboration with the telescope operators, the artists directed the instrument to map out the architecture of its own structure, a geodesic dome now flattened onto paper to reveal the repeating pattern and geometric nature of its engineering. The exhibition will also include holograms, radar maps of the moon made for Apollo, and other astronomical images selected by the artists from the Observatory's archives. A color catalog will be available with an essay by Debra Bricker-Balken based on interviews with the artists and the astronomers. MIT Museum's Compton Gallery is located under the main MIT dome at 77 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Admission is free.