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This
web essay charts the "satellitization of the real":
the displacement of earthly territory to the outer fringes
of contact.
And
a point of conjecture: when in the not too distant future
extended space habitation occurs. Then NASA-TV
may develop a garden channel to broadcast alien green back
to dataland: planet earth.
But
the virtual, as Marcel Duchamp has determined, is an irreversible
translation.
Exibited
through Virtual Gardens, Studio
XX, Montreal, 2002. Essay >
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