PROTOCOLS FOR REDIRECTING
The creative and unconventional exploration or manipulation of atmospheric data and technologies, by taking things that do not necessarily belong to us, reorganising, and redirecting them.
Over the past year, we have practiced regularly hacking into NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellites through the simple use of an antenna- to be exact, an RTL-SDR Dipole Antenna.
The Manual for Hacking describes the steps we have followed over the past months, from setting up the antenna, to positioning ourselves to receive signals from overhead passing satellites, to tuning into the needed frequencies to actually listen to this connection to outer space, and finally translating these beeps and sounds into live weather and satellite images from the interval of the hack.
Our trials have taken place in four different cities over the last 6 months: London, Sitia, Cyprus, and Beirut. The results, although slightly different, assure us of one thing: we are constantly situated in a connected system of shared weather and atmospheres.