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Exercises in Translation
This Virtual Book is an intervention into Henri Lefebvre’s philosophy of space. The
work identifies spatial terminology in the footnotes from ‘The Production of Space’.
The work goes on to develop the theme of borders and asks when does the shift occur
between inside and outside and what happens to the things that do not quite fit.
The book mixes concrete environments and abstract space and links images that are
actual and virtual via the World Wide Web. In this virtual book each page is a marker
of a moment in time in an ongoing production and creation. Each newly generated page
is created in real time every time the Virtual Book is visited. Each visit is a moment
that both materializes and dematerializes with each connection.
Samples from the Virtual Book follow: -
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MS7 Book of Hours Image courtesy of Syracuse University Library Special Collection NY
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Flare observed with various instruments Hanaoka,Y 1997, Solar Physics 173, 319