A-bomb @ 80
Peter d’Agostino © 2025
Video Installation Preview: 7min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
Tracing origins of the A-bomb: places and people playing key roles in its conception and development.
Los Alamos, New Mexico: Oppenheimer Columbia University, New York: Fermi, Szilard Berkeley, California: Oppenheimer, Teller Princeton, New Jersey: Einstein, Oppenheimer
Walks at these locations also recall that the first A-bomb blast occurred on U.S. soil at Trinity site, Alamogordo NM, July 16, 1945.
My video cameras appear to function more like geiger counters - seeking to capture traces of radioactivity - rather than merely recording sound and image.
Produced for the 80th anniversary of the Atomic bomb, this project accompanies TRACES, exhibited in 1995, re-created in 2020, to commemorate the tragic consequences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August, 1945.