Public programme

Opening
14 April, 3 pm. Opening of ‘Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP’

Location
Press-Haus, Brunnenstubenweg 6, 1180 Vienna

Public programme
All events are at the Press-Haus Ground Station, weather permitting

Friday, 17 April 2026, 2 pm - 5 pm
Artist Talk
Another Space Agency is Possible (ASAP)
with Sophie Dyer, moderated by Juni-Nyusta Ruckendorfer

In an era of climate crisis what are the space agencies that we need and want? In this talk, Sophie Dyer will share their experience of building a patchy yet planetary parallel infrastructure of remote sensing as part of the open-weather project, which they co-led with geographer Sasha Engelmann. Can this infrastructure be understood as a feminist space agency? If so, what other kinds of space agencies or approaches to remote sensing might already exist elsewhere under different conditions?

Saturday, 18 April 2026, 11 am – 5 pm
Workshop
How to Read a Storm
With Vinita Deshmukh and Sophie Dyer

Morning and afternoon are booked separately.
11 am – 1 pm Radio and remote sensing
2 – 5 pm Amateur weather forecasting
Free!

Capacity:
15 PAX morning
20 PAX afternoon

On 18 April, climate scientist Vinitia Deshmukh joins Sophie Dyer for the workshop How to Read a Storm. To read a storm is to map the structure of a cyclone and to understand its excess heat as inseparable from four centuries of ‘extractivism’. The morning will be an introduction to radio and remote sensing. In the afternoon, guided by scientific models and participants' experiences of the weather, we will explore how to ‘read’ storms in the sky and in satellite imagery.

Vinita Deshmukh is a researcher in meteorology and climate science at University of Vienna. She researches large-scale weather patterns, including storms and extreme events, such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall. Vinita is dedicated to making weather data and satellite imagery accessible to the public.

What do participants need to bring?
A laptop, fully charged (the software we will use drains the battery)
If using a Laptop with only USB-C ports, a USB-A to USB-C adapter (morning only)

Access and inclusion
Please share a week in advance any access requirements

The workshop will be held in English.

Echo Correspondence presents Another Space Agency is Possible (ASAP), a project by British designer Sophie Dyer. From 14 April – 10 May, the Press-Haus at Brunnstube, Schafberg will be transformed into a community ground station, which will receive transmissions from polar orbiting weather satellites and serve as a forum for discussion about weather, space and collective practice.

For five years, Dyer co-led the feminist art, tech and pedagogy collective, open-weather. Co-founded with geographer Sasha Engelmann, open-weather became a planetary network of 100+ DIY Satellite Ground Stations. From Vienna to Valparaíso, Phnom Penh and Svalbard, this volunteer-operated network recorded storms, political climates and the slow death of the last publicly accessible, analogue weather satellites.

In imagining open-weather as a feminist space agency, ASAP asks what other space agencies exist? How might they alter our perception of the planet and so how we relate to it? These questions are probed through a new soundwork, material experiments and the staging of the ground station itself.

Echo Correspondence is an artistist-in-residence program dedicated to producing site-specific research through spatial practice and critical inquiry.

Sophie 'Soph' Dyer is a designer, artist, and educator whose work explores feminist and anticolonial approaches to the weather, climate, and social justice. They co-led the feminist collective, open-weather, where they built accessible tools for DIY satellite imagery reception and decoding. Sophie’s investigative work has been used to sue the NYPD and in numerous human rights reports as part of Amnesty International’s Evidence Lab. Twice nominated for the S+T+ARTS Prize, they are an external advisor to Forensic Architecture and teach at Design Academy Eindhoven.

ASAP Collaborators

Open-weather
Vinita Deshmukh (Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna)
Daisy Hildyard
Michèle Boulogne
Imani Jacqueline Brown
Ameneh Solati
Anna Lebedieva (Non Linear Narrative, Royal Academy of Art)

For open-weather:
Daniel Powers and Lizzie Malcolm (Rectangle)
Grayson Earle
Bill Liles NQ6Z

How to Read a Storm was developed in collaboration with Camille Li (University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research) and Ellen Viste. Supported by Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (NO).

ASAP sound work development supported by Tsonami Arte Sonoro (CL).

Year of Weather by open-weather supported by Open Science Hardware Foundation (USA) the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (US) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)

Graphic design by Operative Space

Translation of ASAP audio by Lorena Pircher

Risography by Replikat Press

Alternative printing processes made in collaboration with ⁨Giulio Paolini⁩, Die Druckstube

Special thanks to Ellen Viste, Victoria Nazarova, Nicola Loctalli, Veronika Platz, Robert Preusse

Sybille Neumeyer. Thanks to Max Kure and Leo Mühlfeld

Instagram
@open_weather
@vinniee__, Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, Universität Wien
@nonlinearnarrative
@diedruckstube
@micheleblgn
@amna_solati

Imani Jacqueline Brown
Daisy Hildyard
Vinita Deshmukh
Anna Lebedieva
Ellen Viste
Camille Li

@rctngle for open-weather
@prismspecs for open-weather
Bill Liles NQ6Z for open-weather

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