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INTERNET INSTALLATION
THE
CENTER OF THE WORLD
ESPACE
PIERR CARDIN, PARIS
15-19 SEPTEMBER 1999
http://www.fredforest.org/centre/default.htm
This
project was conceived as a fitting “final homage”
to the old-fashioned existential and metaphysical paradigm
a territorially centered world, which is dissolving before
our very eyes in the virtual sea of information known as cyberspace
and has been rendered “obsolete” by the triumphant
ideology of the global. Visitors to the artist’s temple-like
installation could gaze at a relic of the so-called “Center
of the World” in the form of a three-dimension digital
image appearing on the surface of an altar—an image
that was not immutable but appropriately changed form continuously
in relationship to Internet traffic. Cyber-pilgrims could
visit the sacred site of memory online thanks to the three
different webcams that provided continuous live coverage of
the installation site throughout the duration of the operation,
and they could compose an e-mail meditation that would be
displayed on the large electronic message board that covered
the curved rear wall of the installation.
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