Keith Sonnier, Signal, 1978
1978
- Medium
- 4 color lithograph
- Dimensions
- 91.4 × 188 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 25 (#24/25)
- Status
- In Gallery Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-155814
The four-color lithograph Signal (1978) is one of the rare prints in Keith Sonnier's oeuvre and shows his intense involvement with the emerging technologies of the 1960s and 70s, such as satellite communication systems. During this period, Sonnier cooperated with the U.S. space agency NASA to send live video and text into space, testing the potentials and limitations of the new possibilities for information exchange. For Sonnier, who was interested in exploring new materials and media, satellites epitomized a utopian future in which spatial expansion through new communication technologies meant a way to build cultural bridges and transcend conventional material boundaries. Signal visualizes on a large scale this immaterial expansion through the graphic representation of communication waves, grids and lines.
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