Joe’s article yesterday (See The Ether) reminded me of something I bumped into a while back about an artist’s display in England called field.
Richard Box, the “Artist in Resident of the Department of Physics at the University of Bristol” assembled a display of 1301 flourescent tubes that are illuminated only by the ambient energy from high-voltage transmission lines.
Deane has always had this idea that someday if all the radio waves we put into the air might someday become visible, we wouldn't be able to see or get anything done for all the data and conversations flying around. On the evening of May 4th, above the Meridian in Greenwich…