A desktop expedition and documentary, woven from satellite imagery found online to make an extraordinary seven-minute journey around the world, encountering the splintered voices taken from real peoples' blogs which interleave and overlap as if to form a single conversation. Part of Thomson & Craighead's The Social Networking Suite, a collection of three artworks developed for Futuresonic 2008.
Artist Biography: Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead are artists living in London and highlands of Scotland, who make things for galleries, online and sometimes outdoors. Lots of their recent work looks at live networks like the web and how they are changing the way we all understand the world around us. Jon and Alison have just completed an animated work called, 'Flat Earth' for Channel Four Television and a major new semi-permanent work for The Junction in Cambridge. Recent exhibitions include; BFI Southbank, London; Laboral Art Centre, Gijon; Montevideo, Amsterdam; San Jose Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Tate Britain. A monograph of works from 1998 - 2005 is available from Film and Video Umbrella, London.
