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"In recent years the work of French artist Christian Boltanski has shifted from the work of memory towards the creation of myths. The artist has been dedicated to creating installations that seek to be permanent monuments for humanity in distant places. They are works that give rise to a new mode of transmission through ideas and not just objects."

"From the early avant-garde Futurists to present-day, utopian dreams litter the history of art meeting technology. When it comes to radio and wireless, these often include the dreams that each new technology will conquer space and time; that the overcoming of distance will enable the symbiosis of human with machine and the union of self with other, while the overcoming of time will bring about a simultaneity of experience. For many radio and transmission artists (myself included), our work with so-called "trailing edge" media seeks to critically engage these myths, positing wireless transmissions instead as time-based, site-specific encounters between people and devices over distances small or large, where the materiality of the electro-magnetic spectrum is experienced within a constantly shifting transmission ecology in which we all, people and devices, function."