ALMA are the initials of Atacama Large Millimeter Array [http://www.eso.org/projects/alma]. The construction of 80 radio antennas in the desert of Atacama in Chile, under the direction of the European South Observatory, will be finished in 2010. Its main ambition is to obtain high-resolution images of traces of the origins of the universe. Chuquicamata is the name of the biggest open pit copper-mine of the world [www.codelco.com]. My father worked there in the years before being exiled to Spain in 1974, after the coup d´état of Pinochet. Close to the mines were camps, auto sufficient production units in the middle of the desert, where all the workers, engineers and executives lived. In Chuquicamata lived up to 25.000 persons. The village was left behind in 2005 due to the heavy contamination of the ground, the workers and their families were relocated to Calama. The copper-mine and the astronomical
observatory define some space and time coordinates in the Atacama Desert.
PROJECTS TELESCOPE . Summary COPPER ROOM . A Machine Vision COPPER TOUR . A Time Machine [actually there is only a german version available] UNA MUJER EN LA LUNA . A Record of Time
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