Public Artwork
Improving your View of the World…Virtual Reality-Vision for the Brave New World Order
Location:
Windsor Fine Art Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West , Windsor, ON, N9A 7J1 , Canada
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Artwork creator(s):
Burchnall, Christine
Text author(s):
Burchnall, Christine
Installation year:
1991
Remarks on location:
Gallery of the Windsor Fine Arts Museum (first two weeks); wall of a building downtown (in the third week of the exhibition).
Description:
Photographic image on a billboard
Text of the artwork:
Improving your View of the World…
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AEGIS DCA INTELSAT NASA SANDIA
AFSATCOM DISCOVERY INTERCEPTOR NATO SCOPELIGHT
AT&T BELL ELINT IONDS NEC SEAM
ABTM ERCS ITT NIGHTWATCH SENTINEL
ARGONNE ERIS LANTIRN NORAD SDIO
AWACS EXCALIBUR LITTON NORELCO SIGINT
BLUE EAGLE F-15 LIVERMORE NUDET SIEMANS
BMEWS FEMA LOCKHEED NUWEP SIOP
BOEING GALOSH ABM LOOKING GLASS PD-59 SPARTAN
BROOKHAVEN GEDI II MAD PERSHING II SPRINT
C-31 GEMINI MARINER PFIAB SMART
CIA HEDI MIDAS REDCOM SS-20
COMINT HERTZ MIDGETMAN ROCKWELL INT TELINT
CRUISE HOE MILSTAR RV TITAN
DAEDALUS HONEYWELL MINUTEMAN SAC TRIDENT
DARPA IBM MIRACL SAGE WESTINGHOUSE
DEFCON ICBM MRV SAM-12 WISC
DEW INSCOM MX SAMOS WWMCCS
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Text theme:
List of acronyms used to designate weapons, equipment and other organizations related to new technologies
Artwork theme:
Virtual reality, new technologies that shape our world view
History:
Installation at the University of Windsor. The contract between the university and Artcite was canceled three days before the opening. The artwork was temporarily installed in a gallery at the Windsor Museum of Fine Arts (the first two weeks of the exhibition). It was then moved downtown on the wall of a building until the end of the exhibition.
Event: In Control, billboard project by artists, organized by ARTCITE, Windsor, ON.
Commissioner: Lorenzo Buj.
Event date(s):
1991
Artist's biography:
Burchnall, Christine Document(s):
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