Brittany Nelson's List Projects 34: Space, Longing, and Archival Memory

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Brittany Nelson's List Projects 34 at MIT List pairs photographs and a video to explore space, longing, and archival memory, using the Green Bank Telescope as a symbol of connection and absence, while Rebecca (2026) becomes an immersive installation drawn from frames in Hitchcock’s Rebecca and Tarkovsky’s Solaris, supplemented by a 1901 Harvard glass‑plate image and a score by Mauro Hertig that treats the helium-pump sound as the machine’s heartbeat, turning the telescope into a site of desire, distance, and even madness and placing Green Bank and Rebecca in a broader conversation about representation, materiality, and how knowledge travels across instruments, images, and stories.