Collection: ANTHROPO MA-1 Bomber Jackets
Title: IF EARTH IS 24 HOURS OLD - HUMANS APPEARED AT 23:58:48 (Graphic #3)
Role: Concept, Research, Design, Production
Exhibition info: Design Museum of Chicago, Confluence•20+
Description: ANTHROPO Graphic #3 < IF EARTH IS 24 HOURS OLD - HUMANS APPEARED AT 23:58:43 > is based on the Golden Record, a time-capsule funded by NASA in 1977, and launched aboard Voyager 1 and 2.
The Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, containing 116 images, music selections from different cultures across a wide span of genres, greetings in 55 languages and audio recordings of sounds like a baby crying and a kiss. The collection was curated with the intention to be a ‘greeting from’ and ‘a story about’ human civilization, and the diversity of life and culture on Earth for an extraterrestrial audience - but it did not include images of: war, poverty, religion, disease, ideology or crime.
23:58:43 asks us to consider: How do the images and sounds that represent us today differ from those of the Golden Record? What statement do these omissions make about us?
The exterior bomber graphic reimagines the 116 images in a collage style to address these omissions; with the interior showing the 116 images in their original format accompanied by a list of all the contents.
The pocket graphics address these omitted aspects of our existence and contemplate a line from a letter included on the Golden Record from President of the United States at the time, Jimmy Carter: “We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.”
Images: (1) jacket detail, (2) 116 images in chronological order, (3) Voyager and the Golden Record, (4) Jimmy Carter’s letter, (5) exhibition at Chicago Design Museum (2017); (6) gallery view, workshop+talk; (7) workshop, (8) NEW MUSEUM Store window installation featuring the jacket, Amula DNA Jewellery and the LUNA bag in 3M reflective; (9) LUNA product tags with information about our relationship to the moon. Interested to experience the Golden Record? You can own it now at Ozma Records.