PARADIGM SHIFT

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The shift from analog to digital communication has been a paradigm shift, starting with the introduction of digital typography. Email began soon after, and later the Internet erupted. There were two parts to the shift: the technology that drove the change, exemplified by Babbage, Turing, Gates, Jobs, Wozniak, and Tim Burners-Lee; and the creative power exemplified by Pixar and various digital artists. With the computer, I could communicate with clients anywhere in the world as fast as electrons could move from my studio to their office. Two discarded pieces of wire mesh, one piece wrapped inside another, created an optical pattern that captured the visual dissonance I was after. A discarded computer mouse worked as the transmitter passing through into the future.