TRE YDRE LAG / three outer layers

Video, 3:52 min.

2015

“During a transatlantic flight from New York to London, at a cruising altitude of thirty-five thousand feet, a communications link between an

Intel-based notebook computer, perched on a tray in front of the passenger in seat 3A of the Boeing 747, and a Sun workstation on the twentieth floor

in a Merrill Lynch brokerage house in Sydney initiates the transfer of investment capital from a Swiss bank account to a corporate venture involving a

Zhejiang textile mill. The event produces an ambiguity of scale that defies geometrical analysis. Proximity and location become ineffective measures of

spatiality. Distance loses its objectivity – its edge – to pressing questions of boundary and connectivity.

Geometry gives way to changing topologies as the transfer of a specific pattern of zeros and ones, represented as so many pixels on a screen, induces

the flow of capital and a consequent change in the material conditions of the Zhejiang mill and surrounding community. With the click of a mouse,

space, time, and matter are mutually reconfigured in this cyborg “trans-action” that transgresses and reworks the boundaries between human and

machine, nature and culture, and economic and discursive practices."

Citat fra “Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Phisycs and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning” af Karen Barad