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Our proposal was, simply, to receive the news in the shadow zone of its own transmission. A video "cab," broadcasting live news tracks along the main facade of the building. Its movement is timed to the CNN Headline News, according to its slogan, "The whole world in half an hour." It takes 29 minutes for the cab to descend and 1 minute for it to climb back into starting position. At the hour and the half hour, the cab aligns with the equator of a scrolling satellite image of earth projected onto a 100 foot long liquid crystal billboard. A scanning plotter monitors the 24 time zones. A reader displays the changing positions of broadcast satellites and their blind spots. Within the huge public atrium, a suspended grid of liquid crystal panels receives a giant video projection of live news broadcast. It effectively slices the view of the vast space in half and releases it when the material phases into transparent mode. News space, like news time, is rendered ephemeral.

This project is characterized by displaced liveness -- live anchors, in the space of production, just to the other side of the wall, are magnified, even monumentalized in the space of consumption. Historically, the dissemination of information as news formed the public sphere. As a return to the pre-televisual space of politics is improbable, perhaps today, the intersection of world news with shopping and entertainment can serve as a more probable model.

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