In 2008, I sent out 750 inquiries by mail and e-mail to anyone I could find a contact for in art for submissions of artworks as an addendum to the Voyager message. The following were the responses which I then compiled as images which to be sent with the Deep Space Communications Network.
Tom Bigelow
Heidi Hahn- Woman with pooch
Jude Broughan
Lascaux Caves Prehistoric map of the night sky on the walls of the painted caves at Lascaux in central France. The map, which is thought to date back 16,500 years, shows three bright stars known today as the Summer Triangle.
Adam Elsheimer- Flight into Egypt- 1608
Vija Celmins- Night Sky #2- 1991
Oscar Carlson
“I don’t know what I want to say, but to try to say something, I think I want to try to think. I want to try to see what I think. I think trying is a big part of it, I think thinking is a big part of it, and I think wanting is a big party of it, but saying it is difficult, and I find saying trying and nearly always wanting. I want what I want to say to go without saying.”
Martin Creed, 2001
Brian Clifton
Barnett Newman Broken Obelisk, 1963
Hiroshige Kambara yoru no yuki 1833
Matthew Barney Cremaster 3, 2002
Sol Lewitt Floor Plan #4, 1976
Vija Celmins Untitled (Big Sea #1), 1969
Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa, 1819
Diego Velázquez Las Meninas, 1656
Marcel Duchamp Boîte-en-valise, 1935/41
Devon Costello
Kehinde Wiley- Ice-T- 2005
Thomas Kinkade-
Georges Seurat
Interior of the Metropolitan
Daria Dorosh
Pyramids
Pattern Woman still
Melissa Dubbin/ Aaron Davidson
Pierre Huyghe- Chantier permanent (a permanent construction site), 1993
Les Grandes Ensembles, 1994/2001
Marc Ganzglass
Steve McQueen’s Entire 2005 show at Marian Goodman NY- Once Upon a Time; 7th November; Girls Tricky; Charlotte
Dogan Kalender
Moon Museum
Alex Kitnick
Dan Graham- Past Continuous Past(s)- 1974
Ellen Kenney
Reena Spaulings novel, "Eine Pinot Grigio Bitte,"
Margaret Lee
Louise Nevelson's Sky Gate, New York 1978
Anna Lundh
Mierle Laderman Ukeles' 1983 The Social Mirror
Ryo Manabe
Edward Hopper's Second Story Sunlight,
Mark Dion's Tate Thames Dig,
Damien Hirst's Virgin Mother
In order to contrast against "New England house", "Museum", and "Anatomy"
Peter Mandradjieff
Andy Warhol's Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)
Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Works in Mexico
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault,
Édouard Manet’s Olympia
Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion
Martha Rosler’s Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful
Gordon Matta Clark’s Fresh Kill
David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale
Kara Walker’s Gone, An Historical of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart,
Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures
David Platzker
Moon Museum
Sean Raspet
Raymond Roussel's 59 illustrations and captions for the poem Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique, executed by Henri-A. Zo via commission from the Goron detective agency.
Hanna Sandin
Excursus- Homage to a Square 3- Robert Irwin
Agnes Martin- I love the whole world
Roni Horn- Aretha
John Patrick Walsh III
Courbet- Origin of the World
Rothko’s chapel
Bruce Nauman
John Sebastian Vitale
James Turell- Roden Crater
Joseph Beuys- I Love America and America Loves Me
Cheryl Dunn's footage of the Mark Gonzales performance at the Stadtisches Museum
Damien Ortega- Moby Dick
Chris Burden- The Flying Steamroller