Lines: A Project by Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann

In September 1989, Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann drove along the Greenwich Meridian from the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea. With a car fax machine they regularly sent images and texts to fax machines in eight locations in Europe. In this way they introduced a new representation of li...

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Published in:Leonardo (Oxford) 1991-01, Vol.24 (2), p.185-186
Main Author: Barron, Stéphan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fax machines
Faxes
Geography
Specific Projects
Telephones
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Summary:In September 1989, Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann drove along the Greenwich Meridian from the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea. With a car fax machine they regularly sent images and texts to fax machines in eight locations in Europe. In this way they introduced a new representation of line--one of the first symbols of humanity--that included time, space and imagination. Lines aims at inducing a planetary consciousness, a technological humanism. The project explores new measures of time and space and contributes to a postmodern and ecological sensibility.
ISSN:0024-094X
1530-9282
DOI:10.2307/1575293