Projecting onto the past - and into the future...
We invite you from October 25 to October 27 to witness selected content from the Time Capsule being projected onto the majestic Red Rocks of the Jemez Pueblo.
The Pueblo of Jemez is one of the 19 pueblos located in New Mexico. It is a federally recognized American Indian tribe with 3,400 tribal members, most of whom reside in a puebloan village that is known as "Walatowa" (a Towa word meaning "this is the place"). Earliest archeological evidence suggests that people started settling in the area as early as 880 BC.
Using state-of-the-art projection technology, we’ll use the face of the massive red rock walls to create a light show visible from space.
And now, picture this. Contents of the capsule will be sent into space
via a beam of laser light from the Pueblo of Jemez and will travel through infinity.
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Can't get off work to trek to New Mexico?
Don't worry, the entire event will be webcast live. Here are the details:
- When: October 25-27, 2006
- Where: Live from the Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico
- Time: 7PM-1AM U.S. Mountain Time
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The webcast will be archived and available all day if you miss the live show.
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The red rock canyon walls that cradle Jemez were formed 285-245 million years ago and are part of the Abo Formation.
These majestic red cliffs will act as the screens that will display capsule content over the three-night period. The laser and capsule content will shoot from the ground, to the cleft that sits between the two red rock walls, and bounce straight into space.
As the location of one of the oldest communities in the world, Jemez and the village of Walatowa, is the perfect place for us to showcase the content from one of the newest communities - Yahoo!
More info about Jemez
Having originated from a place called "Hua-na-tota," our ancestors, the Jemez Nation, migrated to the "Canon de San Diego Region" from the four-corners area in the late 13th century. By the time of European contact in the year 1541, the Jemez Nation was one of the largest and most powerful of the puebloan cultures, occupying numerous puebloan villages that were strategically located on the high mountain mesas and the canyons that surround the present pueblo of Jemez. These stone-built fortresses, often located miles apart from one another, were upwards of four stories high and contained as many as 3,000 rooms. They now constitute some of the largest archaeological ruins in the United States. Situated between these "giant pueblos" were literally hundreds of smaller one and two room houses that were used by the Jemez people during spring and summer months as base camps for hunting, gathering, and agricultural activities. Our spiritual leaders, medicine people, war chiefs, craftsmen, women, children, and the elderly lived in the giant pueblo throughout the year, as warriors and visitors could easily reach at least one of the giant pueblos within an hours walk from any of the seasonal homes. In addition, impenetrable barriers were established with cliffs to guard access to springs and religious sites, to monitor strategic trail systems, and to watch for invading enemies. In general, the Jemez Nation resembled a military society that was often called upon by other tribal groups to assist in settling hostile disputes.
Jemez is located 55 miles outside of Albuquerque, NM.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (www.folkways.si.edu) is the nonprofit record label of the national museum of the United States and an archive collection of tens of thousands of music, sound and spoken word recordings. Our mission promotes the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound.
Smithsonian Global Sound® (www.smithsonianglobalsound.org) is a digital download site offering recordings of traditional music from all over the world. Its free multi-media educational features invites teachers, students, and enthusiasts to explore the world of music in more depth.
At Yahoo!\’s invitation, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings consulted on how best to organize the Time Capsule submissions from its online community, and Smithsonian Global Sound provided a selection of community-based, culturally emblematic tracks from cultures around the world as a soundtrack to underscore the event’s technological reach. We offer our collaboration in the spirit of inviting reflection on the breadth, diversity, and magnificence of humankind’s cultural creations.
-Atesh Sonneborn, Ph.D.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Herring Media Group is honored to have been selected by the Yahoo! Corporation to design and produce the Yahoo! Time Capsule event.
To articulate the strength of the content of the archive, we have chosen to illuminate the media at a heroic scale in a natural and sacred setting that itself has stood the test of time. As a signal to anyone or anything in reach of our message, this information will be sent on its way across the universe as a beacon of hope and a snapshot of humanity.
To accomplish our work, HMG has employed a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary approach to the creation of this illuminated media installation and have truly enjoyed working in close collaboration with our many project partners, including Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the Pueblo of Jemez.
We are immensely grateful for the courage and vision of our Client who has accepted the challenges of doing these things, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
Herring Media Group Inc.
D. Marc Herring
Chairman