#  Dr. Aura Satz 

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**Aura Satz** is a London-based artist, filmmaker, and documentarian who created the installation artwork “Her Luminous Distance.” This multimedia installation uses an amateur astronomical device, a PROBLICOM—a device that uses slide projectors to flash between two images of the same region of the sky to detect changes over time. Instead of using the images as intended, Satz juxtaposes historical plates of the night sky with images and portraits of Women Astronomical Computers. When displayed, the viewer cannot see the complete image without it being melded with another. The accompanying sound creates a dissonant rhythm between the blinking images and pulsing tones until, for a brief moment, both fleetingly become in sync. The work is an homage to the individual and collective legacies of Women Astronomical Computers and draws on their study of variable stars, where they examined thousands of plates to measure millions of black dots created by each star's light to discern small changes in the cosmos. Created in 2017, Satz’s work was installed in the dome of the Great Refractor telescope at the Harvard College Observatory for a special exhibition in 2023. Satz's other works often depict the forgotten history of women and other marginalized people, creating complex portraits that do not over-sexualize the female form, and instead focus on their forgotten work.

**Aura Satz** works in film, sound, performance, and sculpture. She has performed, exhibited, and screened her work at Tate, London; Hayward Gallery, London; 2016 Biennale of Sydney; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; High Line Art, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kadist, San Francisco; Sharjah Art Foundation; Rotterdam Film Festival; Onassis Stegi, Athens; and Sonic Acts, Amsterdam. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, London; Hayward Gallery project space, London; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Dallas Contemporary; ARTIUM, Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Titirangi; and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA. She recently completed her first feature film '[Preemptive Listening](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31790421/)' (2024), which premiered at [MoMA](https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9396), was shown at [Tate](https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-one), and won the New Vision award at the CPH:Dox festival. She has taught at the Royal College of Art since 2014.