Transatlantic Communication of a Different Kind

The telectroscope:

Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.

4 Replies to “Transatlantic Communication of a Different Kind”

  1. If the artist didn’t have this wacky story about an undersea tunnel, would anyone be even slightly interested? What’s so fasinating about a pair of (apparently HD fibre optic) video transceivers? Kudos to the artist for getting his installation noticed, but…

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