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.
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[…] 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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