PHONY

Notes en anglais

Phony was a multi-sited public art project installed in venues throughout downtown Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). It borrowed the metaphor of the “web” for its spatial organization by moving viewers through a series of physically distinct but electronically linked spaces. The project dealt with communication technologies by looking at the culture and history of the telephone. Using a familiar, but now old technology, the rotary dial telephone, Phony tried to ask questions about what is new and different about new technologies and what the value of that difference might be.