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Bix Archer: Small Town at the Edge of Cyberspace
Starting April 4, 2022
San Francisco artist Bix Archer discusses her work, focusing on her recent exhibit “A Small Town at the Edge of Cyberspace“, which explores the metaphors early internet users in the Bay Area deployed to describe their experiences of the web. “When the internet as we know it was first taking shape, the hippies and hackers who logged on needed language to describe this new entity they were navigating. It was a wilderness, a vehicle, a bulletin board, a community, a cafe, a letter on the kitchen table. It was their real world, the world of the Bay Area, but also not. The Bay seeped into the space. And this internet spilled out from behind the screen and worked its way back into the landscape and the people.“
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