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The S I is pleased to present French
artist RENAUD AUGUSTE-DORMEUIL's project The
Day Before_Star System, which is comprised of images
of the night sky on the eves of historic events.
Powerful software, with a catalogue of the historical behavior
of more than 2,500 stars, enables us to display the map of
the night's sky given exact mesurements of place and date.
The
Day Before_Star System is a photographic project
that presents sky map from "the day before" historical
military bombings. The night sky from before the tragedies
of Guernica (April 25,1937), Hiroshima (August 5, 1945), Nagasaki
(August 8, 1945), Sarajevo (August 28, 1994), and Baghdad
(January 15, 1991) will be displayed at the Swiss Institute
on the days before the anniversary of September 11.
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