Immaculate Telegraphy

Immaculate Telegraphy was an experiment to build electronic communication from scratch in the wilderness. In summer of 2009, I set out in the mountains of western Montana without any modern tools or materials except information, and constructed a working electric telegraph from materials found on the ground. The experiment showed that electronic communication could have been constructed at any point in history given the right information.

This project was supported by the Eyebeam Honorary Residency, and hosted by the Johnson creek ranch.

I started by trying to make things that looked like tools. But these two rocks, with a log wedged between them, works marvelously to split logs. When does something become a tool? How many artifacts will never be found becuase they don’t look like artifacts?

Posted Sunday, June 14th, at 2:07 PM (∞). Available in higher resolution.

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