This work is dedicated to the Bartlane System. The glowing image of Archimedes’ ghost drowns in blurred shades of dots from newspaper photos of the 1920s.
The Bartlane System was invented in 1920 and in 1921 it helped to get the first ever picture transmitted across the Atlantic. The system operated between London and New-York. Telegraphic typewriters converted newspaper images from one of the cities into signals that were sent over submarine cable lines and finally were decoded and printed on the other side. The first images were coded with 5 gray levels, but since 1929 15 levels were used.
Here I portrayed Archimedes’ ghost as if he could have revealed himself on a picture transmitted over the Bartlane System of 1929. I tried to catch the beauty of first signals gliding through the ocean between two continents.