The Last Pictures (The Artifact open with image wafer exposed)
2012
Ultra-archival disc designed to last billions of years, with image wafer micro-etched with one hundred photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell, mounted to the anti-earth deck of communications satellite EchoStar XVI launched into a geostationary orbit
Commissioned by Creative Time
Courtesy the artist, Metro Pictures, Altman Siegel, and Galerie Thomas Zander