| DEBORAH LIGORIO |

WIRED UNDER WATER - 1999 - 5 min

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Directed by Deborah Ligorio - Camera by Caterina Nikolaus - Lighting by Fabio Leonardi - Editing by Erik Lambert at Acquarelli Studio - Produced by Palazzo Delle Papesse Conteporary Art Center and Telecom Italia.

[…] an expedition to film a submarine telecommunications cable.

In the video, the underwater camera traces the cable, parting seaweed fronds and scattering fish as it glides through space. The meshes of leaves obscure the cable beneath them. Algae and other plants have grown on the cable blending it into its environment.

The work grew from curiosity about the relationship between the architecture within the Internet, the interface, sites and appearance of the virtual space with which we are all familiar, and the actual infrastructure needed to support it. In this way, it was an attempt to uncover/discover something inaccessible and invisible, to reveal the physical thing containing so much activity, and to view concretely something as massively abstract as the flow of information.
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N S K - 1998/99 - web project

From analogous investigations, the web project NSK was born as a development platform for digital environments. In collaboration with: architect Andreas Angelidakis - architect Lorenzo Bini - architect Johnny Benson - photographer and musician Mark Borthwick - musicians Casino-Royal - musician and information technology expert Dimitri Negroponte (Dimix) - architect Markos Novak.

[…] What is liquid architecture? A liquid architecture is an architecture whose form is contingent on the interest of the of the beholder; it is an architecture that opens to welcome you and closes to defend you; it is an architecture without doors and hallways, where it need to be and what it need to be. […] Liquid architecture makes liquid cities, cities that change at the shift of value, were visitors with different background see different landmarks […] (Marcos Novak)