Lines: A Project by Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann

In September 1989, Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann drove along the Greenwich Meridian from the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea. With a car fax machine they regularly sent images and texts to fax machines in eight locations in Europe. In this way they introduced a new representation of line—one of the first symbols of humanity—that included time, space and imagination. Lines aims at inducing a planetary consciousness, a technological humanism. The project explores new measures of time and space and contributes to a postmodern and ecological sensibility.