Atlas of Cyberspace (2001)

original website link

downloadable book link

grounded

"travelling light"

art installation in Canada

 "The winning proposal called L'anneau Lumiere was submitted by the architectural Group Spirale (Alain Coquet, Jerome Gerber, Jean Jacques Leonard, Alain Robert, and Jean Pierre Pommereau). Their project consisted of a 24 kilometer in diameter ring of 100 six meter in diameter reflecting balloons which would have been visible as a circle in the sky larger than the Moon -   a concept that turned out to be technically unfeasible to realize."

link   link

 the attempt to provide a (necessary) topological view

for people or users at the historical world fair of 1964

 the Burroughs Adding Machine - state of the technology in 1941,

from the Burroughs family

although a mistake to recall heritage purely from periods' objects rather 

than from successful social organization strategies and common values,

there are still retained aesthetic values and lineage development 

in objects which could be discerned and traced.

contrast with the Victor Adding Machine

 the transport to Mars' surface for the polaroid

 if our being of civilized nurture 

had begun elsewhere,

as on the deserted planet of Mars

pyramids of elysium link

 

 

 

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