This
project was conceived as a fitting “final homage” to
the old-fashioned existential and metaphysical paradigm a territorially
centered world, which is dissolving before our very eyes in the
virtual sea of information known as cyberspace and has been rendered
“obsolete” by the triumphant ideology of the global.
Visitors to the artist’s temple-like installation could gaze
at a relic of the so-called “Center of the World” in
the form of a three-dimension digital image appearing on the surface
of an altar—an image that was not immutable but appropriately
changed form continuously in relationship to Internet traffic. Cyber-pilgrims
could visit the sacred site of memory online thanks to the three
different webcams that provided continuous live coverage of the
installation site throughout the duration of the operation, and
they could compose an e-mail meditation that would be displayed
on the large electronic message board that covered the curved rear
wall of the installation.