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Landing Sites
Videos and C-prints, 2018-19

At the centre of this project are the landing sites of the internet cable FLAG Atlantic-1, which connects the US directly with France since 2001. It was the first submarine cable able to transmit high quality video. It enabled the internet as we know it today, with all its streaming applications.

Back in the days, before the first telegraph cable was laid down, it took three weeks for a message to cross the Atlantic, by boat. With the first telegraph cable in 1858, it still took two minutes for one single letter. In 2001, FLAG Atlantic-1 made it possible to transmit 200 hours of video in one second.