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Darkness Matters displays historic lightscapes, specifically at night, from petroglyphs to James Webb Telescope images. The exposition constructs a sort of cabinet of curiosities and wants to take the visitor on a private journey to a virtual exhibition space to re-embrace the endeavors under and around the nocturnal vault, an underrepresented micro-story of our times. By researching archive material, image recordings and other available data Costanza Julia Bani creates speculative reconstructions of our nights and our relationship to the universe behind the sky we can see with our naked eye. Starting from fireflies in olive groves, alpine forests and the Milky Way, the exposition becomes a visual experience around darknesses and light pollution that has been transforming our nocturnal habitat since the introduction of artificial light.

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  • contents
    • PAGE 1 Introduction and Background
    • PAGE 2 A Room of my Own
    • PAGE 3 Method
    • PAGE 4 Theoretical Background
    • PAGE 5 Ground Floor Plan
    • PAGE 6 Room 1 / Petroglyphs
    • PAGE 7 Room 2 / Nebra Sky Disc
    • PAGE 8 Room 3 / Hipparchus Star Catalogue
    • PAGE 9 Room 4 / Dunhuang Star Chart
    • PAGE 10 Room 5 / Painting Nights
    • PAGE 11 Room 6 / Daguerreotypes
    • PAGE 12 Room 7 / Glass Plates
    • PAGE 13 Room 8 / Chronophotography
    • PAGE 14 Room 9 / Strindberg's Celestographs
    • PAGE 15 Room 10 / Night for Night / Photography
    • PAGE 16 Room 11 / Night for Night / Motion Pictures Documentary
    • PAGE 17 Room 12 / Night for Night / Motion Pictures Fiction
    • PAGE 18 Room 13 / Recent operations with celluloid
    • PAGE 19 Room 14 / Cosmological Past / First Deep Field
    • PAGE 20 Room 15 / Cosmological Past / Old Galaxies
    • PAGE 21 Room 16 / Cosmological Past / Black Hole
    • PAGE 22 Summing Up / Bortle Scale, Sky Glow and Light Pollution / More Fireflies
    • PAGE 23 Bibliography and Thanks / Credits
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    Darkness Matters displays historic lightscapes, specifically at night, from petroglyphs to James Webb Telescope images. The exposition constructs a sort of cabinet of curiosities and wants to take the visitor on a private journey to a virtual exhibition space to re-embrace the endeavors under and around the nocturnal vault, an underrepresented micro-story of our times. By researching archive material, image recordings and other available data Costanza Julia Bani creates speculative reconstructions of our nights and our relationship to the universe behind the sky we can see with our naked eye. Starting from fireflies in olive groves, alpine forests and the Milky Way, the exposition becomes a visual experience around darknesses and light pollution that has been transforming our nocturnal habitat since the introduction of artificial light.
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A ROOM OF MY OWN

ROOM 8

CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY

ROOM 16

JWTS BLACK HOLE

 

ROOM 9

CELESTOGRAPHS

ROOM 1

PETROGLYPHS

ROOM 15

JWTS OLD GALAXIES

 

ROOM 10

NIGHT FOR NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

ROOM 7

HARVARD GLAS PLATES

 

ROOM 2

NEBRA SKY DISC 


Ground Floor Plan

 

ROOM 14

JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE

FIRST DEEP FIELD

 

ROOM 11

EARLY MOTION PICTURES DOCUMENTARY

 

ROOM 6

DAGUERROTYPES

ROOM 3

HIPPARCHUS STAR CATALOGUE

 

ROOM 12

EARLY MOTION PICTURES FICTION

 

ROOM 5

PAINTING NIGHTS

ROOM 4

DUNHAUNG STAR CHART


ROOM 13 

CELLULOID TODAY

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