Although
time on the Keck telescopes is scheduled 6
months in advance and is highly coveted, the two
different teams observing on Keck I and Keck II that night both agreed to interrupt their research and point the mighty 10 - meter telescopes
at M82 and gather valuable
data and rare insight into the life cycle
of type 1a supernova.
With a portion
of the ZKM retrospective coming to the U.S. this
month,
at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Donahue and Hershman Leeson got the idea to put together a show
of firsts — works that had mostly not been shown in New York, yet were the first
of their kind to utilize
different emerging technologies like the interactive laser disc, the touchscreen, and even video that reacts in real
time to stock market
data.