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Article: Leah Gilliam. (Reviews: New York).
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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The Pathfinder mission to Mars five years ago produced only some soil samples and a week's worth of grainy stills showing a broad red desert that looked like the inner reaches of Nevada. Yet NASA'S scientists, eager to establish the history of Mars's formation and the potential for further exploration there, were thrilled. And the rest of the world fell in love, crowding around TV screens and jamming Web pages in record numbers to ogle the planet's never before seen contours as recorded by the vessel's little roving camera, Sojourner.
It is this moment of fascination and longing that Leah Gilliam reframes in "Agenda for a ...